{"id":8825,"date":"2014-12-08T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:01:03","slug":"the-fallacy-of-taller-wheels-being-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/12\/08\/the-fallacy-of-taller-wheels-being-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallacy of Taller Wheels Being Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Tim Brummer,<\/strong> a much accomplished engineer and owner of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lightningbikes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lightning Cycle Dynamics<\/a><\/strong>, the fasted production bikes on the planet, discusses the misperception that taller \u00a0wheeled recumbent bicycles make a for a faster machine. He even shows that smaller sized wheels can make for an increase in speed&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/LightningWheelSize\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>or<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read the <span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/12\/26\/tall-wheel-speed-fallacy-podcast-transcription\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcription<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Ian Simms<\/strong>, of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenspeed.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenspeed<\/a><\/strong>, augments this notion with the discussion and charts that you can find <strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoveryride.com\/human\/rolling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-circle tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/08\\\/the-fallacy-of-taller-wheels-being-faster\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; 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height: 1096px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p>btw:\u00a0It is also important to note that the small wheeled <strong>Moulton is banned from racing by the UCI<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Brummer, a much accomplished engineer and owner of Lightning Cycle Dynamics, the fasted production bikes on the planet, discusses&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/12\/08\/the-fallacy-of-taller-wheels-being-faster\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recumbent","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-2il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5705,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/10\/14\/cruz-bike-recumbent-mom-shatters-24-hour-record\/","url_meta":{"origin":8825,"position":0},"title":"Cruz Bike (Recumbent) Mom Shatters 24-Hour Record","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"October 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"49 year-old Maria Parker, a mother of four kids and co-owner of NBG Supporter,\u00a0Cruz Bike, the amazing Front Wheel Drive recumbent bike,\u00a0just broke the world 24-hour record. 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