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What the f***.
fair point.
He hasn't had time to get changed yet since le tour
Bloke on a bike innit?
so it's ugly, so what? I'm presuming it's ugly for good reasons (stiffness aerodynamics etc) rather than just trying to outdo on-one with over use of the ugly stick.
If it works, who cares how fugly it looks?
what's wrong with it? been fairly common knowledge for a while that theyd be looking to exploit track tech on the road stuff...
I wanted to defend it, saying "they're there to win, not look good on the club run" and such clever things...
...but yeah. WTF! 😕
Woah, look at the chainrings. Not even just elliptical - properly differnt radii all over the place
*sorry I don't really follow road rding, this might not be news to most people but it is to me
He hasn't had time to get changed yet since le tour
Don't get me started on the 3/4 length leg warmers and short sleeve jersey..
I'm guessing he means the bike - surprised it isn't the usual Dogma myself. Looks like an evolution of the Team GB track bikes with a stem that makes my 695's look pretty...
Basically a road going version of the track bikes they've been using for years. Tiny frame for max stiffness and min weight, flat tops to the bars for aero.
[url= http://road.cc/content/news/62533-olympic-road-race-tech-six-bikes-and-their-riders-could-win-gold ]Here's some more info[/url]
i quite like it. And i'd lick the sweat from colonel wiggos mutton chops any day of the week
[url= http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/534102/bradley-wiggins-uksi-olympic-bike.html ]http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/534102/bradley-wiggins-uksi-olympic-bike.html[/url]
He hasn't had time to get changed yet since le tour
Yeah he has:
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[i]Woah, look at the chainrings. Not even just elliptical - properly differnt radii all over the place[/i]
The return of BIOPACE 🙂
Woah, look at the chainrings. Not even just elliptical - properly differnt radii all over the place
osymmetric rings, yes osymmetric...
EDIT: o,symmetric even
That Bradley pic has mysteriously been removed from David Millar's twitter feed, and Cavs tweet of it has gone too...
that is just plain nasty
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If it's first over the line on The Mall who cares what it looks like.
Anyway I bet Realman could make it sound good if he were selling it on the classifieds. 🙂
Very ugly, but if it gets the results...
I do wonder how much aero impact that has given the fact that the rider still has to sit on it. Still, minimal gains and all that.
cancellara would take off on one of them.
They're just Osymetric rings, as Wiggins uses all the time.
It looks bloody short though from that photo of him riding it.
Also, part of me thinks that in the spirit of the Olympics, maybe everyone should ride the same bikes so that it's best rider/team that wins, not best kit.
Choppers. They should all ride choppers.
yeah send someone out to get a load of boris bikes an hour before the race 😉in the spirit of the Olympics, maybe everyone should ride the same bikes
Very ugly, but if it gets the results...
http://www.velominati.com/technology/look-pro-part-ii-casually-deliberate/
It seems odd that there's such a focus on aero, yet they haven't used something like BB90 to avoid having a lump of BB sticking out of each side, or put the brake calipers behind the fork.
So ugly, hope we don't get too many side shots on the TV!
They're just Osymetric rings
no no no, they're o,symetric
the breakaway will be going twice as fast just to get away from them, and the peleton will drop back so as not to be associated.
I do wonder how much aero impact that has given the fact that the rider still has to sit on it. Still, minimal gains and all that.Quite a bit, Trek are claiming the new Madone is 25W better than the outgoing modelat race speeds , and these look substantialy more aero than even those. The average rider's probably rangeing between 250-400W over most of the race so that's 10% less effort. Presumably is more evn i the sprint as the wobbling ruins airflow (anyone who's been sailing in light winds knows that a slight wobble can stall the boat, let alone cav thrashing about) but he's potentialy 10% fresher than the competition.
He's just won the tour, he's the best TT rider in t'world. Whatever the fat accountants and IT managers of STW say,he knows best. and he gets to do what he wants.
so whats this bolt for..??!:
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[/img]sowhats this bolt for..??!:
It holds the motor in.
Also it probably holds the seatpost in place.
if it was that important why none of this sort of thing ?
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no doubt there will be rider input during R&D, maybe even from BW himself, but doesn't he get given the bike he has to use rather than pick/build what he wants?and he gets to do what he wants.
"whats this bolt for?!
clipping on medals to his sexy new bike?
the way british cycling been funded, they pick, choose and direct every aspect to gain 0.01% where they can.but doesn't he get given the bike
[i]if it was that important why none of this sort of thing ?[/i]
I think it has to say McDonalds or something if it has a name on it?
"they" being the squad or they being each rider individually? ie we'll see several different setups on the squadthey pick, choose and direct every aspect
If it's the latter then nice one.
<Edit> if so then I think we need to start a "what tyres for pall mall thread" and send cav the results.
10% power increase equates to 3% more speeeeeed
[i]I think it has to say McDonalds or something if it has a name on it? [/i]
sorry that should have read
if aero is so important then why not....
what's more aero about that ridley?
the brakes