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Actually it really was last-minute. I’m not sure why it was, but I think they weren’t expecting the bike to be ready in time. It was always going to be about testing as it was a new machine but yeah, it does seems a bit mad sending an untested bike all that way with a rider who hadn’t had more than a couple of hours of riding it. Hopefully they’ll make a better job of it next year.
Mike B has some interesting ideas on the design - his plan was to make it very light weight to keep the rolling resistance down, as at that level of aerodynamics (laminar flow etc) every tiny difference adds up. He just went too far for a 200m record bike. It’d be ok for an hour record, I reckon.
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it does seems a bit mad sending an untested bike all that way with a rider who hadn’t had more than a couple of hours of riding it
Hopefully they’ll make a better job of it next year.
You've answered your own question there. Actually going to BM this year, even with a bike and rider not ready for prime time, will have revealed things which staying at home wouldn't, and which will make them better next year than they would have been without the experience.
gbj_tester
That's only one decent poo. ;)
My point was more that he's only doing 12 days training for an event that has so much money to get over there? If he's already racing them then I guess it's just on top of what he was doing plus it sounds all a bit 'last minute' so maybe that's all the time he got.
I'd love to do stuff like that but I'm already over-committed on the cycling front. googles 24hr hpv record