Anyone else...

[thefollen]

...pretend the sounds of high revving / accellerating motorbikes are in fact your legs making that sound as you set off from lights?

Unintentionally I find it makes for quite a fast start!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

No, I'm pretty sure it is just you.

 

[arch684]

No. don't think it would help.

 

[rugby bloke]

Definitely does not work on a Boris Bike !

 

[steveindenmark]

No. I have a big motorbike and what you suggest would confuse me.

 

[Spiderweb]

You need intervention and a padded room!

 

[mjr]

Definitely does not work on a Boris Bike !

Come on, they're geared so low that you have to rev the nuts off to get any speed!

 

[Drago]

Not since I was 8.

 

[Welsh wheels]

[QUOTE 4748696, member: 9609"]when on the big hills I make scany V8 noises
[/QUOTE]
That's definitely not a cigarette he's smoking..

 

[sight-pin]

https://www.thegiftandgadgetstore.com/product/turbospoke-the-bicycle-exhaust-system?gclid=CPCwiovpitMCFU88GwodghYIZQ

 

[thefollen]

https://www.thegiftandgadgetstore.com/product/turbospoke-the-bicycle-exhaust-system?gclid=CPCwiovpitMCFU88GwodghYIZQ

That's amazing!

 

[thefollen]

I challenge all you naysayers to try it. You need to be in a nice acceleration gear and (if applicable) clipped in – once you hear the revs, own that noise and inject some leg into those pedals!

 

[rugby bloke]

Come on, they're geared so low that you have to rev the nuts off to get any speed!

I don't both changing down from 3rd, so pulling away from the lights is a mater of standing up on the pedals and slowly cranking the thing into action. It amuses me when people start in 1st - the gear is so low that their legs are going round like crazy and the bike is hardly moving.

 

[mjr]

I don't both changing down from 3rd, so pulling away from the lights is a mater of standing up on the pedals and slowly cranking the thing into action. It amuses me when people start in 1st - the gear is so low that their legs are going round like crazy and the bike is hardly moving.

IIRC, the gearing is 32/44/60 and I do use first to start off but only for a few turns. Maybe people leaving it in top is why most seem easy to out accelerate from stops. I suspect if I tried mashing it away in 60", you'd hear my poor knees pop in Northampton!

 

[PeteXXX]

My bikes have stop/start technology installed.
The amount of energy saved is quite astounding!