Re: Ride the Lobster Teams- place your bets!

Wow, very interesting thread as I forgot all the good teams/riders that
have entered the race. I think I agree with a lot of stuff GizmoDuck
said...very informative post. My team, west coast cokers, is aiming for
the top 10 but I'm sure most teams are?! But then again I just sprained
my ankle a few days ago so there goes lots of training rides but
hopefully it'll heal by then so I can still compete!

Here's my bet (notice how the top teams have at least one geared uni!
😉 Actually out of the top 8 I have listed, does any of the teams not
have a guni?):
1. NZUNI
2. Team Smile
3. TexiCali
4. Yellow Line Fever
5. Totally Doable
6. Lost Wheelers
7. Korean Dream Team
8. Hans Islanders

The last 4 teams I really don't know about them as I don't know the
riders but I'm guessing they'll be fast and they might be in the top 4
but as I don't know them I'm putting them towards the bottom. Of course
this is what I predict if there was perfect weather, no brake downs, no
injuries and everything went as planned.

I hope that their are no injuries but I would place another bet that
one of these teams will have a major injury so at least one of the team
members can't complete the race although it doesn't mean they are out
of the race by any means. It's just that all these teams are going to
be pushing themselves so much that I think it's bound to happen that
someone will take a UPD and get hurt (let's hope I'm wrong!) Especially
if everyone is riding close together (like the criterium).

This is going to be fun!! Not only to watch and see what happens but to
also experience this first of its kind event! 37 more days.....till we
find out the results!!

Connie-What kind of beer do you want?! 😉 And isn't Roger riding in
this?! If not, why?

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unicycle6869 said:

It's just that all these teams are going to be pushing themselves so
much that I think it's bound to happen that someone will take a UPD and
get hurt (let's hope I'm wrong!) Especially if everyone is riding close
together (like the criterium).

The criterium is gonna be mentalist - we've had 10-20 rider races at
Warwick, and even there it was sometimes hard to overtake. Warwick is
an 800m course, with 7 corners, whereas the RTL criterium is a 700m
course with 4 corners - meaning the RTL one will be way more crowded
with 5x the riders and probably a little bit faster riding too. Even if
people spread right out it'll be one rider every 7 metres - I hope
those roads are wide! It'll be mad if the fast riders start lapping the
slower ones too.

I wonder if they'll be doing intermediate challenges in the criterium
too, like fastest laps and sprints to the line every 5 laps, like they
do in bike ones.

Joe

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joemarshall said:

The criterium is gonna be mentalist - we've had 10-20 rider races at
Warwick, and even there it was sometimes hard to overtake. Warwick is
an 800m course, with 7 corners, whereas the RTL criterium is a 700m
course with 4 corners - meaning the RTL one will be way more crowded
with 5x the riders and probably a little bit faster riding too. Even if
people spread right out it'll be one rider every 7 metres - I hope
those roads are wide! It'll be mad if the fast riders start lapping the
slower ones too.

I wonder if they'll be doing intermediate challenges in the criterium
too, like fastest laps and sprints to the line every 5 laps, like they
do in bike ones.

Joe

As Tholub mentioned, I'll probably be wearing full muni armor for that
race.

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