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George Minion
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| Anyone entering the 20km TT at Blenheim Palace on Oct 4th?and does anyone know what the course is like? |
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I'll ride it wiv ya George, could do with some practice
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Fast start, narrow for most of the route, technical with lots of corners and challenging descents. A proper bike rider's course! But it's a wonderful environment, and if you stay to have a potter round later on when the route is open for leisure riding, you can enjoy all the views you didn't see through the red mist..
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Andrew Jackson
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Road bike or TT bike?
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the answer to that is somewhat obvious 
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the answer to that is somewhat obvious |
yer, so obvious I can see it  Please explain
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| Andrew Jackson wrote: |
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| Andrew Jackson wrote: |
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the answer to that is somewhat obvious |
yer, so obvious I can see it Please explain |
its a timetrial... so ride a timetrial bike
rocket science it isnt
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| PNuT wrote: |
| Andrew Jackson wrote: |
| PNuT wrote: |
| Andrew Jackson wrote: |
| Road bike or TT bike? |
the answer to that is somewhat obvious |
yer, so obvious I can see it Please explain |
its a timetrial... so ride a timetrial bike
rocket science it isnt |
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| Fast start, narrow for most of the route, technical with lots of corners and challenging descents. A proper bike rider's course! But it's a wonderful environment, and if you stay to have a potter round later on when the route is open for leisure riding, you can enjoy all the views you didn't see through the red mist.. |
Therefore being a proper bike riders course thought that a TT bike may be a problem.
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Therefore being a proper bike riders course thought that a TT bike may be a problem. |
if he said it was really technical would you think of riding an mtb or trials bike?
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Depends if you can get some of the sillier TT bikes to go round corners fast and safe?? Dual carriageway it ain't by the sound of it, more like dual cabbageway! Should be fun. And then you can watch the Bromptons with racers in disguise in suits, if it's on this year. Went last year and Heras couldn't believe some Brit from a bike shop beat him!
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| Depends if you can get some of the sillier TT bikes to go round corners fast and safe?? |
Bike setup is lost on you it seems |
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| 'kin 'ell. There are TT courses that are faster on a road bike with clip-ons. I know this because pros occasionally TT on road bikes on particularly tough courses. Simple innit? |
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| There are TT courses that are faster on a road bike with clip-ons |
A mountain TT is the only place where a road bike may be worth it. Any other profile a TT bike will be faster.
No mountains at Blenheim AFAIK. |
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| Are they laying on 40 ft artics, old farts who can recite the rulebook, and rank tea and cakes to truly replicate the time trial experience for all? |
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That was a mountain TT though that you link to  . So understandably a few of them rode road bikes.
If you were referring to the final TT over the greasy cobbles where Menchov fell off, then I think some went for roadbikes for the handling on the slippery roads.
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To succeed, it required not just superlative form to tackle the climbs of Bracco and Termine, that together amounted to more than 1,100 metres' elevation, but an equal dose of nail-biting descending that would have burned through those rubber brake blocks that differentiate between life and death, finesse as well.
Thursday in Cinque Terre, Menchov had both in spades.
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| benlane wrote: |
That was a mountain TT though that you link to . So understandably a few of them rode road bikes.
If you were referring to the final TT over the greasy cobbles where Menchov fell off, then I think some went for roadbikes for the handling on the slippery roads.
| The Giro D'Italia wrote: |
To succeed, it required not just superlative form to tackle the climbs of Bracco and Termine, that together amounted to more than 1,100 metres' elevation, but an equal dose of nail-biting descending that would have burned through those rubber brake blocks that differentiate between life and death, finesse as well.
Thursday in Cinque Terre, Menchov had both in spades.
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A mountain TT is in common parlance riding from the bottom to the top of a mountain. A 61km TT which goes up a few climbs is a hilly TT. Fact. |
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