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key ran
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Well, back to the original OP, McCann came 11th overall, and I think he did start too slow, at the first time check he was in 38th position, then moved up to 18th, 13th, 14th and finally 11th.
Wiggins positions at the various time checks were 7,6,6,6,4 and then 21, would he have moved up to 3rd, beating Tony Martin? |
Like Larssons and possibly Wiggins, how much was McCann's pacing upped when he was caught? |
Great for motivation! (Sheet, better get a move on!)
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Roy Gardiner
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Rob of the Og wrote: |
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| the boo wrote: |
| ohh dear sack the mechanic |
No the driver... or the course designer. The car was miles behind. |
You fools , the car would be in the position as told by the commissaries. 
Do you think Team GB would make such a basic error  , |
It probably didn't help that Brad chucked his bike across half the road (and the tv motorbike stopped across the other half of the road) so none of the cars behind could get past.  |
This is how you support your rider in an individual time trial.
And, Mr Harmon, I think you should continue to disagree with Bjarne Riis. Anquetil won the GP Des Nations, then the all but official world time trial championships, 9 times.
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Des
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Rob of the Og wrote: |
| Plank wrote: |
| mho wrote: |
| the boo wrote: |
| ohh dear sack the mechanic |
No the driver... or the course designer. The car was miles behind. |
You fools , the car would be in the position as told by the commissaries.
Do you think Team GB would make such a basic error , |
It probably didn't help that Brad chucked his bike across half the road (and the tv motorbike stopped across the other half of the road) so none of the cars behind could get past.
But setting the field at only 1 minute intervals distorted the runners-up race with too many people getting caught on roads which were quite narrow in places. |
Problem was apparent before then - I think he chucked his bike in frustration that his car was nowhere near when he need support.
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If there was a fault with the gearchange, then the wireless link still is not perfect. How can that be in a worlds? A simple cable can break, but not when it's new, perfect, and at a worlds, surely. A bike change should not take more than a few seconds, but the loss of rythmn must be deadly.
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Roy Gardiner
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Cancellera was incredible though wasn't he?
Cadence of around 120rpm I made it, which is at one extreme near enough 80kph on 55x11 or 52kph average speed puts him on something like 55x16
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mattr
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Laurens ten Dam just compared Cancelarra to Bolts - which isn't far off the mark. |
I disagree, Bolt is the fastest man in the world in sports purest form.
That title is far greater than any other in my opinion |
WTF are you on? Udo Bölts is a retired cyclist, sorry, retired animal......... |
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TonyW
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Nothing to do with his gears - apparently his chain came off and pushed the rear brake onto the rim 
He didn't know the car had been stopped - didn't he have team radio? |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| mattr wrote: |
| Pocket Rocket wrote: |
| Steve McGinty wrote: |
| Laurens ten Dam just compared Cancelarra to Bolts - which isn't far off the mark. |
I disagree, Bolt is the fastest man in the world in sports purest form.
That title is far greater than any other in my opinion |
WTF are you on? Udo Bölts is a retired cyclist, sorry, retired animal......... |
I'm not 'ON' anything, Laurens compared Cancelarra to Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world ever! |
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mattr
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| Pocket Rocket wrote: |
| mattr wrote: |
| Pocket Rocket wrote: |
| Steve McGinty wrote: |
| Laurens ten Dam just compared Cancelarra to Bolts - which isn't far off the mark. |
I disagree, Bolt is the fastest man in the world in sports purest form.
That title is far greater than any other in my opinion |
WTF are you on? Udo Bölts is a retired cyclist, sorry, retired animal......... |
I'm not 'ON' anything, Laurens compared Cancelarra to Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world ever! |
why does it say Bolts up there then 
Ah well. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Pocket Rocket wrote: |
| mattr wrote: |
| Pocket Rocket wrote: |
| Steve McGinty wrote: |
| Laurens ten Dam just compared Cancelarra to Bolts - which isn't far off the mark. |
I disagree, Bolt is the fastest man in the world in sports purest form.
That title is far greater than any other in my opinion |
WTF are you on? Udo Bölts is a retired cyclist, sorry, retired animal......... |
I'm not 'ON' anything, Laurens compared Cancelarra to Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world ever! |
During the 4th 20m of his world record breaking sprint, Bolt averaged only 7mph slower than Wiggo averaged during his 4km pursuit win. Fact. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: McCann may have beaten the 25 record |
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but has just been caught by his minute man in the worlds ...
shows what drag strip tt-ing really means |
+1
drag strip time trialling means nothing, time trials should all be done on sporting courses really. |
obviously you would never ride one joe 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| If there was a fault with the gearchange, then the wireless link still is not perfect. How can that be in a worlds? A simple cable can break, but not when it's new, perfect, and at a worlds, surely. A bike change should not take more than a few seconds, but the loss of rythmn must be deadly. |
Brad runs Osymetric (sp) chain rings. They make any front mech set up a challenge. As well as the rear, because of the changing chain tension
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Did anyone see that documentary on the beeb last night "wounded" proper heroic stuff that, you dont see our squaddies having a paddy if their guns wont work they get on with it. Contrast that with seeing brads display today whilst in gb kit representing his country was really pathetic. What do you do if your brake is rubbing...stop and adjust it, it would have taken seconds. I thought our gb riders spent loads of time with gurus working on mental toughness and that they had all been transformed into winners, not on todays display.As tucker would say mtfu....brad.
Poor show then slating the other medalists...read his twitter tonight hes back on the lash poor little lambiekins
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If there was a fault with the gearchange, then the wireless link still is not perfect. How can that be in a worlds? A simple cable can break, but not when it's new, perfect, and at a worlds, surely. A bike change should not take more than a few seconds, but the loss of rythmn must be deadly. |
Brad runs Osymetric (sp) chain rings. They make any front mech set up a challenge. As well as the rear, because of the changing chain tension |
Wrong on so many levels. At least two:
1) According to the highlights I'm watching, Wiggo was on circular chainrings
2) Chain tension changes with circular cranks too.
See, ripping it out of people's slightly inaccurate posts isn't exactly a barrel of laughs, is it? |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| What the fucking hell does osymetric mean??? |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: McCann may have beaten the 25 record (spoilers maybe con |
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but has just been caught by his minute man in the worlds ...
shows what drag strip tt-ing really means |
on a race of around an hour it is not unusual, where the riders are seeded differently than CTT events, for you to be beaten by over a minute and you can still get on the podium yourself.
DMc finished 11th in the world championships at the age of 36, quite an accomplishment don't you think?
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Tucker
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| What the fucking hell does osymetric mean??? |
It's a brand. Amazingly, it's not a typo (unless you include punctuation, which we do'nt). |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Tucker wrote: |
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| Hugh Jampton wrote: |
| If there was a fault with the gearchange, then the wireless link still is not perfect. How can that be in a worlds? A simple cable can break, but not when it's new, perfect, and at a worlds, surely. A bike change should not take more than a few seconds, but the loss of rythmn must be deadly. |
Brad runs Osymetric (sp) chain rings. They make any front mech set up a challenge. As well as the rear, because of the changing chain tension |
Wrong on so many levels. At least two:
1) According to the highlights I'm watching, Wiggo was on circular chainrings
2) Chain tension changes with circular cranks too.
See, ripping it out of people's slightly inaccurate posts isn't exactly a barrel of laughs, is it? |
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/76th-uci-road-world-championships-cm/stages/stage-3/photos/89078
they'd be Ossymetric rings
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I see you will not be told. |
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I cant quite believe how much stick McCann has been on the receiving end off!!!!
Lets face it, traffic laden drag-strips or not, how many peeps have done a 45min 25 on here!?!?!
I also think, he did a commendable ride in the worlds too coming in 11th. |
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