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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa.
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
gym.gravity wrote: he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ec06/dec15news it'd be nice to see him do it on a team cervelo |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
Dan Connelly wrote: wrote: gym.gravity wrote: he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ec06/dec15news it'd be nice to see him do it on a team cervelo The UCI rules on the hour. The Cervelo doesn't have round tubes: yah, I know...I just that there was quite a bit of interest and development in the early 90s with boardman, obree, indurain rominger doing the hour and all the others who expressed interest in the challenge. cervelo have an edge with their standard team issue frames and by virtue of the fact that he could concievably set a new record using it I just think it is a shame that if he did the uci would not recognize dz's accomplishment. |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
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wrote: Dan Connelly wrote: wrote: gym.gravity wrote: he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ec06/dec15news it'd be nice to see him do it on a team cervelo The UCI rules on the hour. The Cervelo doesn't have round tubes: yah, I know...I just that there was quite a bit of interest and development in the early 90s with boardman, obree, indurain rominger doing the hour and all the others who expressed interest in the challenge. cervelo have an edge with their standard team issue frames and by virtue of the fact that he could concievably set a new record using it I just think it is a shame that if he did the uci would not recognize dz's accomplishment. There's two records: the Athlete's Hour and the Best Hour Performance. The latter essentially allows any bike and position legal for the track. Mind you, the UCI has diligently banned stuff like the Superman, Obree's Mantis, and in one famous incident preemptively banned a position after seeing Graeme try it out in practice before a major track event. Interested in the HPV 'drome record, -- 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 |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
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Dan Connelly wrote: € Spoked wheels with a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 32 spokes; the spokes may be round, flat or oval provided that none of their cross-sections exceeds 2 mm. € Shallow, unelongated, non-profiled rims; shallow rims are understood to be rims whose cross-section fits inside a 2.2 cm square. I wonder if they'd consider Fiamme Red Label track rims to be "profiled" rims. -- tanx, Howard Never take a tenant with a monkey. remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok? |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
"gym.gravity" writes:
he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ec06/dec15news Merck being the operative word in the Subject header presumably? http://www.merck.com/ -- Le vent à Dos Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply] X-Shakespea "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -- The Merchant of Venice, I.3 |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
Why doesn't the UCI simply provide the bike? They could keep a stash of
no-name steel bikes in various sizes with identical wheels and components, and the prospective record breaker can choose one and go for it. BYOS&P (bring your own saddle and pedals). Wayne |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
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Dan Connelly wrote: wrote: gym.gravity wrote: he's been away on a secret training camp in south africa. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ec06/dec15news it'd be nice to see him do it on a team cervelo The UCI rules on the hour. The Cervelo doesn't have round tubes: The Hour Record is the greatest distance achieved in one hour on a traditional bicycle, as defined in artcles 1.3.006 to 1.3.010 and 1.3.019 of the rules, and as further defined in the following pecifications: € Triangular frame composed of straight, circular section tubes with a minimum diameter of 2.5 cm. € Traditional style handlebars with an overall width of 50 cm maximum and 34 cm minimum. € Two wheels of equal diameter, measuring 65 to 70 cm, including tyres. € Tyre section of a minimum of 16 mm and a maximum of 25 mm. € Spoked wheels with a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 32 spokes; the spokes may be round, flat or oval provided that none of their cross-sections exceeds 2 mm. € Shallow, unelongated, non-profiled rims; shallow rims are understood to be rims whose cross-section fits inside a 2.2 cm square. € Other measurements in accordance with those defined in articles 1.3.012 to 1.3.017 (see figure ³Measurements²) and 1.3.022, 1.3.024 and 1.3.025. (1) The spokes may be round, flat or oval as long as the width of a cross-section at any point is no broader than 2 mm in any direction. (2) Shallow rims are understood to be rims whose cross-section fits inside a 2.2 cm square. Riders must wear a helmet certified according to international safety standards, intended solely for the purposes of protecting the head, without a visor, and without any devices or shapes added to or moulded into the helmet with the intention of or having the effect of reducing air resistance. Articles 1.3.026 and 1.3.033 will be strictly applied. Can anyone explain why spoke count has a maximum? and why is the maximum spoke count set at 32? -- Michael Press |
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Zabriskie to do a Merck Hour attempt
Michael Press wrote:
Can anyone explain why spoke count has a maximum? and why is the maximum spoke count set at 32? Well, consider 5,000 spokes per side ..... can you also say "disc wheel" ? Bill |
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