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Were they? I haven't checked times since I did it. The organiser guy said my time (just under 80 mins - the only one to break 80 mins) was "very quick" so I was chuffed enough - didn't bother to analyse any further.
I came out of the water about 8th (ish), finished the MTB race about 4th and finished the run 1st.
Aracer - have you taken the time to find my real name, checked the results and then reported back? That's rather "stalkerish" activity.
oldgit - Member
Well I'm just back from a nice evening racing fellow roadies around Milton Keynes. After the flag we didn't talk about tyres, cake or what to wear. We did however talk about trailquests, the Bucks off road sportive and the Summit series MTB races.
We'll have none of your reasonable behaviour here!
To get back to the general tone of the thread, I think the folks discussing their body fat percentages and tri performances may be mistaking the rest of the STW readers for a group of people who care. 😉
As Poirot would say, this is the proof most positive that is indeed the roadies who are not how you say odd.
I blame the recentish purchase of a road bike...
I have ditched my risers (660mm Race Face Next SL's) yesterday for straight bars ( 560mm Easton EC90's).
That is a whopping 10cm narrower than I'm used to. Time will tell if I like 'em.
Definitely prefer flat bars.
Except on the road bike.
Hey sputnik they're great for going through gaps that are 100mm narrower than you could manage before 😉
I think its fair to say that anyone who is trying to be good at something is likely to appear odd to normal punters.
IME road cyclists appear to be more focused on getting fit and fast than mountain bikers so not wanting to put on weight is pretty normal behaviour really.
Folks who havn't discovered the joys of swinging both ways have not tried hard enough!
I finish work at 7pm tonight, a couple of hours untill it gets dark and no jobs to do at home. Do I take the road bike out for a couple of hours of backroads, climbs and pretty villages or do I take the mtb for a couple of hours of bridleways & cheeky descents? Tough choice, and that's before I decide what I'm going to wear 😉
Oldgit, you have a good point, hopefully it won't go horribly wrong, handlebars going through the gap and me getting stuck in it ala Whinny the Pooh style!
Hence they're not used in competition, by anyone!
Hum
That's true, steve peat, rachel gee and dan atherton, fabien barel, cedric gracia, wade simons, richie schley and many more don't wear baggies don't they.
I don't think they all ride lycra during the world cup (world champ is different matter as they need to wear the official gimp suit of their country).
And obviously any pro rider has a complete freedom of choice about what to wear, they are absolutely not force to wear what the team management told them to.
You could google for 1001 enduro tour and see what people are wearing too.
But hey njee say so, and he's such a good rider that he must be right true?
I thought they were banned from wearing tight fitting clothing under the rules? Wasn't there a big hoo-ha about it? Banned because it improved their times and was deemed unfair/uncool...
Which would sort of sum up the whole argument for/against lycra 😆
I don't think it was a banning, but more a mutual agreement between the racers IIRC.
Difference between them and us, I have yet to see any of us reaching 65km/h 😀
Nope, definitely a ban:
http://www.bikemagic.com/gear-news/uci-bans-skinsuits-for-dh/6606.html
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/uci-ban-skinsuits-and-open-face-helmets-for-mountain-bike-competition-19021
Nope, UCI banned it... deemed to be bad for the sponsorship images of the sport...
😆 i really really hope matt and njee are racing at the same event this year!
From the article:
Atherton wasn't happy that Moseley used a skinsuit, which being much more aerodynamic than loose clothing, would have given her an advantage.
Argh.
My rule for [b]me[/b]....
Will it be a low speed mince - always casual (baggy)
Will there be sections of riding/pushing through undergrowth, snagging clothing etc - baggy outer layer, lycra snags to ****.
Will I stop and walk around with normal people (shopping etc) - baggy.
Will it be high speed but mainly gravity assisted - baggy
Else, lyrca rules - on or off road.
A quick riding trip to NZ & Oz and riding on the continent has led me to believe that it's only in the UK (and possibly North America- havn't been there but you get the impression from the mags) where we are hung up on xc/trail riding in baggy clothes being the only way to do it.
Aracer - have you taken the time to find my real name, checked the results and then reported back? That's rather "stalkerish" activity.
More a case of knowing njee's real name and being curious how he did - whilst I was there I thought I might as well check for winners called Matt, as I was sceptical about somebody winning a triathlon despite finding the time to put baggies on for the ride. Of course once I found you'd won the race which would be called "fun" at MTB events (aka the pothunters race), it was obvious you would be far from the fastest person at the event.
Stalkerish? It's taken more effort to explain it than to do the research.
Well thanks for the effort - most flattered that you bothered.
You still had to tab through every event they have held.
Weird and stalkerish. Noticed it's not just me either - you like to "check up" on others.
Anyway while hardly elite athlete stuff, entering a tri for a laugh with no specific training or kit and winning a category is still not exactly bad news.
You may have checked my other events too - like coming 5th out of 130 on their coastal run. If not, you're slacking.
maybe you should settle this by seeing who has the biggest penis?*
*i don't care who it is.
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Last week called - it wants it's joke back
if im riding with the brown barons i ride in baggies so as to hide my tool but if im out with the pink princesses i like to show it off and wear lycra 😉
Is as relevant now as it was then.
It's as funny now as it was then too!
You still had to tab through every event they have held.
No - they've only held 3 off road triathlons. Yes I'm interested in how others do - I often look up results of events I've not done to see how people I know did, and people I know quite well do EL events, so I was hoping to see some of them in the results (as it turned out I didn't find any in those triathlons), and genuinely interested to see how njee compared. Not at all interested in what you did in other events though.
Anyway while hardly elite athlete stuff, entering a tri for a laugh with no specific training or kit and winning a category is still not exactly bad news.
Indeed not - good performance. Strange how you didn't mention it was just for a laugh and that there were other more serious categories when using it as evidence for baggies being performance clothing though.
Baggies are more practical.
Actually, no they're not - hence why the people winning the other categories at those events almost certainly weren't wearing them.
Sometimes Baggies make sense, even in a race. Here's Sir Nick Craig at this years Dyfi Enduro feed station
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Jings, Nick Craig in baggies racing shocker! With risers, oh lordie, next he'll be toting a Camelbak full of "stuff"