paulambry said:Is that under warranty? Or did you concede that the hubs are only designed to cope with watts, rather than kilowatts?
gplama said:Scody Cup Final - Tour of Tasmania
* Please note - Stage 3: Friday September 17th (Queenstown Teams Time Trial) NO TIME TRIAL BIKES ALLOWED
Right. So I guess they'll all be on bigwheels!?
You are funny and clever at times but here you are a stoopid goose monger.swampy1970 said:The UCI in all of their dumbfcukery passed a stupid rule that allows race organiser the ability to force riders to use a road bike. They've done in at a couple of Pro races in the US and I think maybe even one stage in the Giro a year or two ago. USA Cycling added that rule to their rulebook this year.
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Jono, women are perfectly straightforward. The same cannot be said of your spelling.Jono L said:You are funny and clever at times but here you are a stoopid goose monger.
This rule is awesome.
Why?
Because it allows for equality and better results at certain races.
Example 1,
Here at the race mentioned by Lama, Fly V australia can rock up with a ****load of sexy aero bikes and stuff and smash the pants of everyone and take home all the pie. Where as the small yada yada teams go home crying on their round bars.
Example 2
Tours with a TT but not that important,
IE Herald Suntour,
No TT bikes because most of the teams coming a long way to Oz dont wanna have to bring a whhole other set of bikes AND it makes its fairer for the littles guys in the situation as mentioned above.
Eventually you gotta drop the socialist agenda (I work for Fox news..) and let the boys with the big money and bikes kick some **** but used with good discretion* this rule is awesome and save a lot of bull****tery and faarking around. I mean the race above is liek 700k with a good 5k of that being for a TT, I mean fark it, anyone who wants to bring a TT bike can go felate a donkey for all I care. The rule is good.
*Discretion employed by commisaires is often bizare and hard to understand, like women
PS-Thylo is sooooo old
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I reckon a strong Kiwi accent is worsepaulambry said:The only unacceptable English accent is the whitie 'Seth Effrican excent'
Jono L said:You are funny and clever at times but here you are a stoopid goose monger.
This rule is awesome.
Why?
Because it allows for equality and better results at certain races.
Example 1,
Here at the race mentioned by Lama, Fly V australia can rock up with a ****load of sexy aero bikes and stuff and smash the pants of everyone and take home all the pie. Where as the small yada yada teams go home crying on their round bars.
Example 2
Tours with a TT but not that important,
IE Herald Suntour,
No TT bikes because most of the teams coming a long way to Oz dont wanna have to bring a whhole other set of bikes AND it makes its fairer for the littles guys in the situation as mentioned above.
Eventually you gotta drop the socialist agenda (I work for Fox news..) and let the boys with the big money and bikes kick some **** but used with good discretion* this rule is awesome and save a lot of bull****tery and faarking around. I mean the race above is liek 700k with a good 5k of that being for a TT, I mean fark it, anyone who wants to bring a TT bike can go felate a donkey for all I care. The rule is good.
*Discretion employed by commisaires is often bizare and hard to understand, like women
PS-Thylo is sooooo old
what a complete pile of worthless drivel.swampy1970 said:The cost of a time trial bike is a drop in the ocean compared to the overall budget for a team so Fly V have probably spent more on getting their riders into the condition they need to be in with training camps etc etc than they would have done on something like a P4 Cervelo with 1080 and Sub9 disk. If a big race presents itself with such a time trial there's nothing preventing Fly V from sticking their top guy on a road bike in a windtunnel with whatever other gear is allowed in terms of wheels and helmets or a day or two testing with a power meter because although the bike has changed, the prep behind it hasn't. Shift the emphasis from carbon disks to Lightweights and Continental Olympic tubs. Besides, if the guys are good enough to be in Fly V, they'll probably smash the pants of the other smaller teams anyway.
Speed costs - how much you gonna spend? If you wanted to take things to the extreme, Chris Hoys carbon track bike with a set of 32 hole GP4's with campag hubs is gonna cost about 24,000GBP rather than the touted 28,000GBP with the fancy carbon wheels. I still meets the silly TT regs for the mentioned event but is it still really an apples to apples comparison in terms of bikes?
Let's face it, most of the prettier ones are too busy getting their brains shagged out to do enough training. This is why I didn't start doing any serious miles until I passed 30, I was so ugly by the time I hit about 33, that things really dried up. Now I can ride as much as I like.classic1 said:Secondarily, they are interviewing pommie bike riders. Fark me, is it a prerequisite that you have to be an ugly farker before they give u a racing licence in the UK? Swampy can probably answer that one.
Ha! Don't get me started. I can't stop using all my 2.1kg, 32-spoke, 30mm-deep DT RR 1.2ss, coz, by comparison, everything else feels totally dead/unresponsive/slow, or so flexy that they're gunna bust, or at least rub on the brakes. Apart from 'serious' riders going up very steep moutnains in 'important' races, I reckon bling wheels should only be used in TTs where ya never get off the stool to stomp.swampy1970 said:Speaking of wheels - what a farking difference changing a front wheel can make. I normally ride an American Classic CR-420 but rode a Ksyrium SL tonight out in the hills. I was laughing like a kid with a 'grab everything you want' token in a toy store. The extra lateral rigidity in the front wheel complimented the Cracknfail and it was just like cycling telepathy going down hill - I regret selling these wheels when I first got the bike. Glad I bought them back now!
"How much does this bike weigh? It’s a common question, and rightly so. But the truth is, there are no industry standards for claiming bike weights—and this leads to a lot of misinformation. Variances exist based on size, frame material, finish and hardware. And as bikes get lighter, these differences become more critical. At Giant, we believe the only way to truly know the weight of any particular bike is to find out for yourself at your local retailer."
531Aussie said:And don't get me started on the farkin "rotating mass" fairy tale.
gplama said:From the Giant Trinity spec sheet on their Interwebs site:
No standards in claiming weight... so grams isn't standard enough? Amazing.
531Aussie said:Let's face it, most of the prettier ones are too busy getting their brains shagged out to do enough training. This is why I didn't start doing any serious miles until I passed 30, I was so ugly by the time I hit about 33, that things really dried up. Now I can ride as much as I like.
swampy1970 said:... I hear the HED Stinger 6 are pretty stiff. Cav apparently digs his - apparently he's got the Stallion build, which is probably more for reigning in the near two horsepower he's putting out than the original intent of the stallion build with was for fat fcuks.
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