Overall, this meets the international airline weight limit and we have never had any issues. Other than our bikes and base tools, the rest of the weight is usually taken up by clothes. It is very hard to get into some kind of flow taking the next curve and deciding how hard (and when) you should start braking. The weight of a suitcase with bike inside vary between 16kg to 22kg (35lbs to 50lbs), depending on what other stuff the suitcase gets filled up with. The difference seems small, but the margin of error is already thight. You can go 60 K/hr in a sprint, but in a 80-100K/hr descend, 60k/hr is way too slow to keep up, so you have a very hard time deciding whether you brake from 100 to 70K/hr when going into the next curve, or 60K/hr. Thanks, Tom Ritchey The carbon Break-Away travel bike joins Ritcheys steel and titanium/carbon versions that use a single compression coupling at the downtube.
You feel tiny in those big curves and once you go into the apex, you can only hope the curve isn't going more inwards because you know you can't correct anymore, and going into such curves, it can be very hard to modulate your speed. You have a combination of thin air, more overall body fatigue, the lack of oxygen resulting in reduced assessment of the situation you are in, and reduced control / reactivity Next you have the overwhelming speed in a 3D landscape with steep slopes and uneven pavement at the inside of curves.
I would argue that 100 K/hr descends in the Alps are among the highest risk environments a rider can be exposed to, for several reasons, and I only realized this after having done some of these descends myself. The frame breaks in half and fits into a regular sized suitcase, helping avoid the exorbitant fees that are typically associated with flying a full-size bike. I'm not really wanting to focus too much on your comment alone, but you mention risk as a general thing in bike racing. The Breakaway bike, available in road, cyclocross, mountain bike and tandem, are Tom Ritchey’s ingenious but simple solution to traveling with a bicycle.
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