Track Sprinting

fit it to your bike and do a flying 200m, if its the ponza standard your time will be normal, the ponza power adds around 65 watts to your average over the 200m, so you should notice a difference. not sure if its UCI legal anymore..

Not particularly help to the OP, but funny nonetheless!

Anyone know if they are different? Or am I being a knoob.

Yes

Anyone know if they are different? Or am I being a knoob.

No

"Ponza power" sounds like some kind of Italian hair gel for men. Advertised with red sports cars and scantily clad ladies.

Thread is titled 'track sprinting' therefore you should be using a Prologo scratch.

You could have a Ponza in a Monza:

fit it to your bike and do a flying 200m, if its the ponza standard your time will be normal, the ponza power adds around 65 watts to your average over the 200m, so you should notice a difference. not sure if its UCI legal anymore..

Thanks, I'll try this Saturday.

I suppose it depends on whether you want your question answered. If you do, "Any questions answered" might be a better place to ask

Good point, lets see which gets answered first.

I win.

Thread is titled 'track sprinting' therefore you should be using a Prologo scratch.

Which Prologo scratch, as there's about 7!?

Does it fucking matter?

Yes, yes it does.

You need to relax, maybe a snickers?

The one Chris Hoy uses of course.

Of course, silly me.

Obviously not the exact one, as Sir Chris needs it. But an identical one.

I'm riding old time steel for my track rig: its excellent in a straight line but not so much in corners. Any ideas for a fix? Shorter stem? Carbon forks?

its a big frame, 61cm whcih defo contributes to its leaden steering..

ahead stem and carbon forks

I'm riding old time steel

So is this bloke. Get over yourself.

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Come on tester, even you know that not all 'old time steel' was created equal.
I'd be more concerned about the "corners" that are appearing on bazzer's velodrome.

Within the constraints of standard tube outer diameters, it was all fairly equal. Your returns from increasing wall thickness diminish fast.

I'm thinking more about geometry, in response to the fellow's concerns.

We don't know what his frame actually is.

Yes, but then his problem is not that he's on old fashioned steel but on a bike which is poorly designed or fitted

Maybe

Carbon is the new steel, move with the times grandads.