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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH10/31/14 4:54 AM |
I'm waiting for the "big guns"...
...to enter the arena. It's going to be interesting to see what Martin, Cancellara and Wiggins can do!
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area10/31/14 7:15 AM |
i'm guesstimating the big boys will go...
....+2km from the current record.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real10/31/14 10:43 AM |
Mini Phinney has been hammering the track too. He has mentioned it as a possible comeback from his franked leg (as he puts it).
He has potential to beat Voigt's record also.
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sandiway
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Posts: 4902
Location: back in Tucson10/31/14 11:21 AM |
Tour de France stage
I'd love to see how your average Tour de France guy does.
So an idea would be every year to have a flat individual TT stage.
Same distance as the current hour record at the time.
And see what the times are...
Sandiway
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA10/31/14 3:51 PM |
Flat?
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So an idea would be every year to have a flat individual TT stage.
Where do you find a road section sufficiently flat to give a uniform comparison except on a velodrome? Even minor climbs and descents, never mind the wind direction, alters the outcome.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine10/31/14 4:12 PM |
Plus
Does an "average rider" ride hard in a TdF time trial? Why would he? Don't riders other than GC or stage contenders cruise?
Even if he did, is an effort in the middle of a stage race comparable to an event the rider peaks and prepares for?
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sandiway
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Posts: 4902
Location: back in Tucson11/1/14 8:42 PM |
That's why it's interesting to me. I wanna know how far off the hour record your average toured France pro rides at. I know they're not going to accidentally break the record.
Sandiway
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
11/2/14 7:10 PM |
I don't see any connection between the hour record and the tour, it's apples and oranges.
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sandiway
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Posts: 4902
Location: back in Tucson11/3/14 11:14 AM |
OK I should drop pushing the idea but it's about suffering and human limits.
The hour record is something special, maybe requires special preparation.
Could someone like cancellera hop on his bike and bang out a competitive time without special preparation. In his Tour de France peak form, would he be 1km off, 2km off etc...
Ok I shut up
Sandiway
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
11/3/14 4:23 PM |
Perhaps someone like Cancellera or Martin could come close, but you would have to factor in the fatigue of having climbed up massive mountains for x number of days, battling cross winds, doing lead out's etc... in the days/weeks leading up to said TT, so it still wouldn't compare at all to someone that is focusing on the hour record.
Hence my apples to oranges comment.
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