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25-07.-2005, 04:38 AM
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Punctures on Champs Elysee?
It seemed like an awful lot of riders were puncturing on the Champs Elysee and around Place de la Concorde today.
Do cobbles or rain or both contribute to a higher probability of puncturing? |
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25-07.-2005, 09:56 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
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The rain certainly does. It makes all those little sharp things on the road stick to your tires more and gives them more of a chance to puncture you. In the dry you just role over them. |
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25-07.-2005, 07:21 PM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
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Cobbles can give you a pinch-flat. Happens a lot in P-Roubaix. On a different note, does anyone know if LA had a flat this year? If he didn't, he will have ridden 7 Tours in a row without a flat tire. That's pretty remarkable in itself! |
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25-07.-2005, 10:01 PM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
it must be the dope!
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25-07.-2005, 11:57 PM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
What ? He had plenty of flats in the past..... including a nasty one in 2003 and 2004...... but was always helped to rejoin the peleton........
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26-07.-2005, 01:29 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
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26-07.-2005, 06:32 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
Did I hear it right that the race clock was stopped with 3 laps to go because of the number of crashes and punctures?
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26-07.-2005, 05:39 PM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
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I thought it was because of the rain-slicked conditions that started to happen? Maybe I was out to lunch on that? |
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27-07.-2005, 02:11 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
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hell i nearly fell off my chair. That was too funny!!!! |
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28-07.-2005, 01:01 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
According to one of the pre-race shows about Armstrong and Discovery team, the team races on six or seven year old tires. Apparently aged tires are a bit more supple and puncture less. On that show they also mentioned Armstrong getting through all the tours without a puncture, which is at odds with a previous post here. (I found a news article mentioning a puncture on the last stage of 1999, so it would seem the "no punctures" statement is just a myth.)
Anyone know if other racing teams do this too? Or is this something postal discovered? Michael |
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28-07.-2005, 02:12 AM
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Re: Punctures on Champs Elysee?
I know they're doing it in Roubaix. In 2004 someone used boyaux that they weren't any more on sale!!!!
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