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I'm going to just disagree slightly here, for people predominantly training and racing on outdoor tracks it's often too windy for discs, especially for light endurance riders

Is that actually true, or do people just think it's going to be? The consensus among testers seems to be that a disc can actually be less of a liability than a deep section wheel in a crosswind. Something about how suddenly and at what angle of attack it stalls, I think, and it's obviously going to be different between flat discs and lenticular ones. At over 90kg, I fall into the class of people who are not going to let some little breeze push them about...

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Is that actually true, or do people just think it's going to be? The consensus among testers seems to be that a disc can actually be less of a liability than a deep section wheel in a crosswind.

Perhaps the dynamics of riding a banked velodrome in high winds (with the associated angle changes from use of the banking) differ significantly to the crosswinds experienced on a road time trial? I can't say.
I have, however seen a rider blown completely off the track (from behind a derny) on a windy day when his 4 spokes caught the wind, and a rider with a front disc nearly leave an indoor track involuntarily when someone opened the double doors down the tunnel and let a draft through.

But mostly it's because you ride so close to others in bunch racing and a slight change can cause big crashes, a slight deviation for a lone TT'er might not be so disastrous?

Also disc use at club level is mainstream in TT but not so in track.

...on a windy day when his 4 spokes caught the wind, and a rider with a front disc nearly leave an indoor track...

So a 4-spoke and a front disc are problematic, still no data for rear discs :-)

Not being wilfully argumentative, but I'm plenty old enough to have seen a lot (but not all, yet) of the superstition in cycling overturned by proper scientific analysis, and I'm wondering whether people's fear of using a rear disc in windy conditions is superstition or science.

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Not being wilfully argumentative, but I'm plenty old enough to have seen a lot (but not all, yet) of the superstition in cycling overturned by proper scientific analysis, and I'm wondering whether people's fear of using a rear disc in windy conditions is superstition or science.

I agree, I'm not arguing for wind being a huge factor on rear discs, more so a reason why discs are not widely used on outdoor tracks.

Personally I have ridden a rear disc (flat one too) in the worst conditions I've ever ridden in outdoors and there was more effect from the wind hitting my bodily frontal area when I stood up than anything affecting the wheels.

I suppose the reparability of a ds wheel might be a factor for some, given the likelyhood of accidents.

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Wow, a purple Cannondale Track with pink writing, I want to see a side-on photo!

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Really? I'm sure it's a great bike, but aesthetically? The frame looks like a poodle in heat or sth.

Very nice.^^

Who is it with this frame on the forum, I think they have the geared accompaniment as well?

• Balki
• The Caped Crusader (it's with me)
• Pistoffsky (had it and sold it, both track and geared)

looks very much like a cannondale without the canti track ends.
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