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• #1377
Wiggins can/could/has* break the IP record. Bobridge had mad low air density that day
*apparently he did it in training, or came within a whisker
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• #1378
Oh, I thought it was around 420w/0.165 CdA.
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• #1379
442/0.184 ish
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• #1380
Well there's a goal for next season.
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• #1381
Just a thought, would it be legal to set a record at very high altitude in a velodrome artificially enriched of oxygen?
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• #1382
That's gonna need a lot of silicon sealant.
The reason for going to altitude is so you ride through less air molecules. If you add them back in the form of Oxygen you're kind of defeating the purpose of going to altitude I think.
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• #1383
A few big canisters of oxygen could help already I thought and you would add just the good and light part of air this way?
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• #1384
The first question would have to be: is reduced oxygen actually a limiter for the athlete at altitude?
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• #1385
That's what I thought
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• #1386
Could be used in a future (re)attempt.
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• #1387
P.s. Scot Burns MCR attempt on 19th Dec 8pm ish be good to get a few in the crowd if anyone interested.
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• #1388
Couple of oxygen canisters to aid breathing.
Spray down with alcohol to aid cooling.
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• #1389
About 4.5s up early on.
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• #1390
9s up at 57mins...
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• #1391
Matthias Brandle's hour record bike is on display at the UCI velodrome at the minute:
Impressively high levels of security. It's held on to the stand by a zip tie. Just the one. Right by the unguarded entrance too. Only in Switzerland...
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• #1392
159m short :( good effort though
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• #1393
Scott Burns will go again on 27th 8pm ish, was so close on Sat hope he can find the extra 160m he needs.
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• #1394
Should've gone again the day after. Just needs to drink a lot of water at night :)
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• #1395
Track time is like unicorn poop. The wheelers have agreed to cancel a club session for the 27th to go ahead. January 1st he moves up to 35-39 so this really is last chance saloon on the 30-34 record.
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• #1396
Nice of them. Hope he gets it.
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• #1397
Sadly no record tonight either for Scott.
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• #1398
Obviously anyone holding any of these records is a superhuman. But could someone explain to me why there should be different records for 30-34 and 35-39? It's not even clear to me which you would expect to be quicker! We're not talking developing juniors or veterans.
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• #1399
It just follows the UCI masters age grouping which is done in 5 yr bands all the way up. 30-34 is in fact no longer a category which you can race at World Masters (but British National Masters have it), but the records are still retained.
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• #1400
Ok thanks for that. I was thinking what is the competitive need to separate those two bands? Some people will be quicker at 33 than36 but others the opposite!
It was >6.4 for the Superman record, insane numbers