The Hour Record

Wheels look shopped'. Looks like you can see the far side seat stay through the disc.

I'm just echoing the report. Probably both, as I'm sure being a pro, he's at least partially familiar with WKO, TSB, etc. and has a decent idea about how his legs feel.

Could just be a bit of bluster. I'd get pretty defensive about it too I reckon, so would most people. No one likes the whole world staring at them going "you did it all wrong and that's why you failed". Maybe his ego was bigger than his engine though? He is an Australian after all :)

"narrow as an arrow"
https://twitter.com/nealhenderson/status/563002869323161601

Not really...

D- must try harder Rohan.

I got an email from BMC today. Might be tight, but I think they're going to be much more on top of the pacing - they did say that "doing a Bobridge" would be avoided.

That looks the nuts

That's a good 8cm from the inside of the black line (which defines the track length) and 20cm from the edge of the Cote d'Azure.

Riding further out doesn't have any effect on distance travelled along the straights, so we just need to take into account the extra distance travelled during the corners. Luckily the extra distance travelled is just the equivalent of riding in a circle with a radius of 20cm larger.

A circle of radius r has circumference 2*pi*r
A circle of radius r+d has circumference 2*pi*(r+d)

So the difference caused by riding a distance of d further out is simply 2*pi*d, which is independent of the radius of the corners in the velodrome, so this calculation applies to any velodrome.

So by riding 20cm from the edge of the Cote d'Azure they're riding an extra 1.25m per lap through the corners. Over 200 laps (of a 250m velodrome) that's equivalent to a whole extra lap.

Even riding 10cm closer in (i.e. still 10cm from the Cote d'Azure) they can gain half a lap over a 50km ride.

It's not all this simple though, riding further down the banking will require slightly more energy to be expended in keeping that low on the banking. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out the optimum track position in/through/out of the bends.

I think I recall Hutchinson wrote about not doing any activity before the main events, ditto in Chris Hoy's autobiology.

I purposely abstain from sex before reading this thread.

#doingitright

purposely

LOLz

Ow.

Thomas Dekker will have a go on Feb 25th, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, alt. 1880m

How did he get on the bio-passport program without a ProTour contract?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dekker_%28cyclist%29#Doping

He had a ProTour contract until 31st of December. Presumably he's come to some arrangement with the KNWU to remain in the testing pool, especially as he's hoping to get a new contract out of this.

it's his last straw, indeed.

(meanwhile Maas van Beek - extreme outsider/eccentric 59 year old 80x14 gearing pusher - has been told by the UCI that he will need a bio-passport so he won't be racing the hour in Bolivia and postpones his attempt to later this year in Moscow. details still as sketchy as his bike though)

I wondered in this thread how he was going to do it without bio... Now we know.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hour-record-on-van-dijks-wish-list

yep. I guess the UCI didn't bother back in 2010 when he set the record behind the derny (66.288km) in Moscow

You can't really ride under the black for an hour record as you'll clip too many pads. Minimum is about 5cm up from the cote because of the lean angle and vertical height of the pads.