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What did he do?

After the intermediate sprint he, Greipel, Degekolb Cav and Coquard were about 200m off the front of the peloton, he did the breakaway "come on guys, do some work" hand gesture. Comic gold.

It was a bit annoying Phil Liggett (I know, no-one listens to Phil and Paul on here) going on about there being no French riders in the front group when JCP, Bardet and Barguil were all there. Unfortunately they were all the wrong side of the split on stage 2 so aren't looking too hot overall.

It was pretty clear everyone wanted Martin to get yellow: he got more than one decent pull from a press moto! Still, great result

Love Sagan.

That was brill. Hope to see it in gif form before too long

I wondered why ITV were taking such a long ad break..

Got me wondering if it'd have been possible to get a squad of 9 riders whose surnames could be first names, turns out it probably is, although may not fit Velogames team structure:

Dennis
Martin T
Martin D
Thomas
Kristoff ?
Gerard
Roy
Simon
Didier
Frank
Rolland
Gene

Matthews, Martens & Rogers could almost be considered too...

/csb

Ha! Roy is great. Not sure about Rolland mind. Shame Phil Gil isn't riding.

Anyone thinking of doing the National 400? Looks like a lovely route tho could obviously have dodgy weather, only problem I'm thinking of is getting to the start for 10 in the morning??

Or foot speed?

Or does that end up being the same as maintaining gain ratio?

Details about what changed recently..
cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/late­st-news/hour-record-rule-change-athletes­-hour-scrapped-123397

Clear as mud..

The UCI can maintain that Boardman in 2000 beat Boardman's 1996 record without that 1996 record being affected by their rule changes if they want, but

You should have gone to specsavers

Fair enough. And yes it seems there are a pretty limited number of conversation topics you can have about the hour record!

Boardman's 56km. And not quite anything (e.g. recumbents, full fairings etc.). But I think that is pretty much the "best on a track-legal bike of the time" record.

Nah it was reverted to Sosenka's record, so some of the Boardman/Obree records stood, others didn't.

Someone will correct me but I think they decided that it had to have been set on a pursuit legal bike at the time the record was set.

Nope, nothing as logical. Boardman's 56 was on a perfectly legal pursuit bike. They just said "whatever we've done before, here is our current recognised record (Sosenka's), and we're letting you beat it on any legal track bike". So whether Boardman's/Obree's records "stand" or not is a bit of a moot point; Boardman's 2000 "Merckx" record "stands" cos it has never been annulled, but all his others were obliterated when they made the "Merckx" rule-change. No records got 're-instated' with the latest change, so it's not a case of some records standing and others not; all of Boardman's/Obree's records (except 2000) were further than Sosenka in any case.

What I've not heard anyone talking about, though, is whether Rominger's bike would be pursuit-legal these days and if not why not; seems to have same-sized wheels and standard bars from what I've seen. -- Not that this has any bearing on the record, but if we say Boardman's record is unobtainable due to aerodynamics, what about Rominger? i.e. How much dope is required to ride a standard pursuit bike that fast for an hour?

Just DAS'd a guy on an arrospok'd Dolan going accross Grosvenor Street/Upper Brook; no response.. :/

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how do you delete 'too-late replies to questions asked on previous pages'?

brakless, presumably..

No-one we know, right?

I think all 3 are 1.370, the website doesn't know what it's talking about, and M_V and TM have the right idea ^^^^

This is really good. A lot of his articles seem really technical and a bit scary (is my pelvis correctly aligned? Is my neurological feedback causing me to ride my bike wrong?) but the tips on setting your own saddle height seem spot on, and in fact similar to the method I've developed over a few years: basically (this works particularly well in winter), either go on a long ride or a hard ride and see which part of your leg hurts. Front of knee=saddle too low; back of knee or ankle=saddle too high. The thing about "velocity of extension of the rear of the knee" is pretty interesting.

As far as it goes, I'm pretty sure 1.370x24 is standard for track sprockets.. not sure what this 1.375 business is about...

Tighten your chainring bolts

lol

I finished within the time limit which isn't bad considering I'd given everyone except Marin a 2hr head start.

Fixed

I'm in for this Wednesday. Who's with me?

If the weather stays like it is today!!

Did you request they put it on, or was it on already? Not sure what places will put cycling on if it clashes with e.g. football, unless there's no-one there! (except the velodrome cafe, and presumably Rapha) Anyone have suggestions? (in MANCHESTER. London>>>>>>>)

Do you have 45x2 in stock?

b123 Bullhorn sold!

Does this mean B123's sold (as it says in the first post), bullhorns sold (rb-021's), or both?! If the rb-021's are still available I am interested

That's me :)

ps I never got around to saying how your DAS on the top of Yad Moss was one of the (in many ways, literal) high points of my ride! :D