Bummed by a test ride

[postoak_imp]

I ruminated on my morning ride about the initial dissatisfaction of the OP and I with this bike and I think it may be the old "more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow" syndrome. I should really get a hold of a TU250 and see what I think of it, as an experiment.

Anyway, I found a solution for this and that's to stay in first gear up to red-line, which takes me to 52 mph. This is giving me the run in the upper ranges that I was missing. Doing this 3 or 4 times per ride won't kill my gas mileage -- at least I hope not (we'll see).

I wouldn't spend any time trying to figure out the buzzy feeling I wrote about. This is probably just my reaction to a more powerful, torquey engine.