Zabriskie did it?
 

So does anyone know if Zabriskie set the previously unclaimed US Hour
Record? :)

How far?

Dan

Zabriskie did it?
 

It sounds like he never rode...

Fred Pan


"Dan Connelly" wrote in message
et...
So does anyone know if Zabriskie set the previously unclaimed US Hour
Record? :)

How far?

Dan

Zabriskie did it?
 

monkey writes:

On 2006-12-18 15:16:47 -0800, "Fred Pan" said:

It sounds like he never rode...
Fred Pan
"Dan Connelly" wrote in message
et...
So does anyone know if Zabriskie set the previously unclaimed US
Hour Record? :)
How far?
Dan




Talk about ****** of tha Decade.......

It was a miserable **** UP.

Spectators arrived at ADT at 9:00am for the 9:00am start of Zabriske's
Hour attempt. They found Dr. Kays on the track half way thru his Masters
World Hour Record attempt.

30 min later, he ended w/174 laps....7 laps short of the record.

During his event everyone was murmuring about wondering where was
David Z? Well, he was dressed in jeans and a tshirt sitting in the
front row of the stands next to Floyd Landis. Most of the 50 specators
wondered why he was not warming up as they expressed anticipation at
seeing him ride.

The second Dr. Kays was done, everyone applauded and half the audience
got up and left.

The rest of them stood around waiting for Zabriske to ride. After
waiting about 10 min they all watched him get up and amble across the
track to the apron to chat w/the other VIP's while the officials
packed up their gear, put away the starting gate and left the bldg.

Huh?

Turns out "Zabriske did not have the correct bike with him so the ride
was cancelled."

Anyway....While thzy were still mingling and confused, Floyd (who has
never ridden the track before) took a twirl around the cote d'azur on
the blue accelerator bike and nearly crashed when he tried to coast to
a stop at the starting gate....uh....the pedals and bike kept moving
as he momentarily lost his cool! Just as he began to recover, he ran
into the sponges that were still on the blue band and had to get up to
the black line....w/almost enough speed to stay on the track. All's
well that ends well?

With that the VIP's packed up and headed down to San Diego.

.....def a bizzarre event. Half the people were expecting Zabriske and
the other half were not expecting Dr. Kays.

--
Best Regards
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once
more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of
autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny: Otto Hermann Kahn - Speech
at the University of Wisconsin

Zabriskie did it?
 

The record requires round tube frame.

Zabriskie required to ride Cervelo (contract).

Cervelo does not make round tube frames.

"Davey Crockett" wrote in message
...
monkey writes:

On 2006-12-18 15:16:47 -0800, "Fred Pan" said:

It sounds like he never rode...
Fred Pan
"Dan Connelly" wrote in message
et...
So does anyone know if Zabriskie set the previously unclaimed US
Hour Record? :)
How far?
Dan




Talk about ****** of tha Decade.......

It was a miserable **** UP.

Spectators arrived at ADT at 9:00am for the 9:00am start of Zabriske's
Hour attempt. They found Dr. Kays on the track half way thru his Masters
World Hour Record attempt.

30 min later, he ended w/174 laps....7 laps short of the record.

During his event everyone was murmuring about wondering where was
David Z? Well, he was dressed in jeans and a tshirt sitting in the
front row of the stands next to Floyd Landis. Most of the 50 specators
wondered why he was not warming up as they expressed anticipation at
seeing him ride.

The second Dr. Kays was done, everyone applauded and half the audience
got up and left.

The rest of them stood around waiting for Zabriske to ride. After
waiting about 10 min they all watched him get up and amble across the
track to the apron to chat w/the other VIP's while the officials
packed up their gear, put away the starting gate and left the bldg.

Huh?

Turns out "Zabriske did not have the correct bike with him so the ride
was cancelled."

Anyway....While thzy were still mingling and confused, Floyd (who has
never ridden the track before) took a twirl around the cote d'azur on
the blue accelerator bike and nearly crashed when he tried to coast to
a stop at the starting gate....uh....the pedals and bike kept moving
as he momentarily lost his cool! Just as he began to recover, he ran
into the sponges that were still on the blue band and had to get up to
the black line....w/almost enough speed to stay on the track. All's
well that ends well?

With that the VIP's packed up and headed down to San Diego.

....def a bizzarre event. Half the people were expecting Zabriske and
the other half were not expecting Dr. Kays.

--
Best Regards
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once
more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of
autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny: Otto Hermann Kahn - Speech
at the University of Wisconsin

Zabriskie did it?
 

In article ,
"Matt C" wrote:

[post de-TOFU'd]

"Davey Crockett" wrote in message
...
monkey writes:

On 2006-12-18 15:16:47 -0800, "Fred Pan" said:

It sounds like he never rode...
Fred Pan
"Dan Connelly" wrote in message
et...
So does anyone know if Zabriskie set the previously unclaimed US
Hour Record? :)

Talk about ****** of tha Decade.......

It was a miserable **** UP.


Turns out "Zabriske did not have the correct bike with him so the ride
was cancelled."

Anyway....While thzy were still mingling and confused, Floyd (who has
never ridden the track before)

Whoa. I'm nothing and nobody, and I've ridden track twice. How is it
Floyd has gotten as far as he has, and never ridden a track bike, even
as a lark?

Not even a road fixie?

The record requires round tube frame.

Zabriskie required to ride Cervelo (contract).

Cervelo does not make round tube frames.

Okay, this is an utter red herring. Cervelo has been sponsoring some
CXer for a dog's age on a re-stickered bike, simply because they weren't
yet happy enough with their in-house CX bike project to let him ride it
(or maybe he wasn't happy; whatever).

Point being, they're not philosophically adverse to badge-engineering,
and it's the simplest bike in the world to "design."

If they weren't willing to weld up a few stock Easton tubes in the shop
for him, they could have gotten any one of a zillion custom frame makers
to assemble one, and then add a big "é" sticker.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

Zabriskie did it?
 

Matt C wrote:
The record requires round tube frame.

Zabriskie required to ride Cervelo (contract).

Cervelo does not make round tube frames.


he should have got on an rode it rregardless- if he beat the record or
even made a very good showing the accomplishment will speak for itself
( better than honda f1 trying to break 400kph on the salt flats)

Zabriskie did it?
 

"Matt C" writes:

The record requires round tube frame.

Zabriskie required to ride Cervelo (contract).

Cervelo does not make round tube frames.

OK, pardon me

They get ex aequo leading place in the ****** of the Decade
competition

PS Bike tubes are round thinggys and made outta steel and any frame
mechanic knows you use a brazing torch, filler, flux, Nervex lugs and
Campag dropouts to turn the tubes into a frame


--
Best Regards
It's an outrage that the police are targetting criminals these days!

Marion Barry's considering suing. Apparently, because his ancestors
were sold to Christian Americans by another tribe, and forced to have
decent shelter, culture, and provisions in exchange for some honest
work picking cotton, he gets to smoke crack with impunity.

Zabriskie did it?
 

Davey Crockett wrote:

Talk about ****** of tha Decade.......

snip

Some coverage and pics of the goings-on (or lack thereof) by Neil at Road
magazine he http://neilroad.blogspot.com/

One post on the ADT "event" and one on the fundraiser in SD. Lots of pics of
the protagonists.

Mark
http://marcofanelli.blogspot.com

Zabriskie did it?
 

A couple of thoughts.

- Age graded World Records are total horse****.

- The US Hour Record is recognized. It goes to whomever owned
it before aero stuff came on the scene. In 1984 a guy that
no one had ever heard of (Paul Liebenrood) rode double disks
at the Major Taylor and claimed the record. Maybe someone
like Coggan or Sundquist can remember whose record he broke.
For some reason Rick Ball sticks with me. I don't know why.
But I think it dated from the late 70s.

- Zabriskie announced the attempt:
http://www.homedepotcenter.com/press...CategoryI D=0

I don't think he bailed for some lame ass reason like his
sponsor only makes bikes with round tubes because he certainly
knew that before the press release. It's not like this is
something that just popped up out of the blue.

If it *is* the reason then he's an even bigger douchebag.

Bob Schwartz

Zabriskie did it?
 

In article ,
Bob Schwartz wrote:

A couple of thoughts.

- Age graded World Records are total horse****.

Well, can we agree that they have similar legitimacy to age-group
championships?

Not in dumbass mode or anything, what's wrong with setting the "best
hour by age 44" (or whatever)? It's not going to be of great interest
to people other than Fattie Masters with scary VO2s and exercise
physiologists interested in elite performance declines with age, but it
hardly costs anyone anything.

- The US Hour Record is recognized. It goes to whomever owned
it before aero stuff came on the scene. In 1984 a guy that
no one had ever heard of (Paul Liebenrood) rode double disks
at the Major Taylor and claimed the record. Maybe someone
like Coggan or Sundquist can remember whose record he broke.
For some reason Rick Ball sticks with me. I don't know why.
But I think it dated from the late 70s.

Works for me.

- Zabriskie announced the attempt:
http://www.homedepotcenter.com/press...CategoryI D=0

I don't think he bailed for some lame ass reason like his
sponsor only makes bikes with round tubes because he certainly
knew that before the press release. It's not like this is
something that just popped up out of the blue.

If it *is* the reason then he's an even bigger douchebag.

Bob Schwartz

The mind boggles. If I had to guess, it's probably either some oddball
technical glitch (injury, bike prep, paperwork wasn't in...) or he just
flaked out.

Z. is flaky, but I doubt he's that flaky.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos