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Reunited Dutch duo Slippens & Stam won the Amsterdam Sixday and they
were guests on a tv show where this arty impression of the event was shown: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...pression.mp 4 (27.8MB 2min23 640x480 mpeg4 h.264 "iPod ready", Dutch commentary) At the sixday there was a roller race interlude with Slippens, Stam, Zabel and Bettini: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...sixdaygame.mp4 (20.5MB 1min43, same format) |
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Ted van de Weteringe wrote: Reunited Dutch duo Slippens & Stam won the Amsterdam Sixday and they were guests on a tv show where this arty impression of the event was shown: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...ixdayimpressio n.mp4 (27.8MB 2min23 640x480 mpeg4 h.264 "iPod ready", Dutch commentary) At the sixday there was a roller race interlude with Slippens, Stam, Zabel and Bettini: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...sixdaygame.mp4 (20.5MB 1min43, same format) Beautiful! Thanks for posting this, T-woud. How long is that track? It's a beautiful venue. The local track is lovely, but it's a 200m affair with volleyball courts in the middle. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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Ted van de Weteringe wrote:
At the sixday there was a roller race interlude with Slippens, Stam, Zabel and Bettini: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...sixdaygame.mp4 (20.5MB 1min43, same format) Two points: - Very cool, thank you for that. It eerily reminded me of Les Triplettes De Belleville. - Zabel sucks. Bob Schwartz |
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Ryan Cousineau wrote:
Beautiful! Thanks for posting this, T-woud. How long is that track? It's a beautiful venue. The local track is lovely, but it's a 200m affair with volleyball courts in the middle. You're welcome. The velodrome of Sloten (a suburb of Amsterdam) is also 200 m! Plan: http://www.velodrome.nl/images/velod...lattegrond.jpg Compare with surrounding soccer fields: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.33...80772&t=h&z=18 |
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Bob Schwartz wrote:
Ted van de Weteringe wrote: At the sixday there was a roller race interlude with Slippens, Stam, Zabel and Bettini: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/tmp/2008...sixdaygame.mp4 (20.5MB 1min43, same format) Two points: - Very cool, thank you for that. It eerily reminded me of Les Triplettes De Belleville. - Zabel sucks. That tv show has the same roller race every week at the end of the show with 4 of the guests. It's invariably speedskaters who win and have the best times at the end of the season, with a surprising amount of footballers mixed in. Shockingly, Theo Bos' brother, skater Jan, was faster than him once. Which was the reason for Theo's reappearance the next week: he was not a guest then but was only there to improve his time (which he did). Road cyclists never do well. Even endurance trackies like Stam who won in this video are no match: he's 3 seconds slower than this season's best time (by Jan Bos again). |
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Ted van de Weteringe wrote: Ryan Cousineau wrote: Beautiful! Thanks for posting this, T-woud. How long is that track? It's a beautiful venue. The local track is lovely, but it's a 200m affair with volleyball courts in the middle. You're welcome. The velodrome of Sloten (a suburb of Amsterdam) is also 200 m! Plan: http://www.velodrome.nl/images/velod...lattegrond.jpg Compare with surrounding soccer fields: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.33...80772&t=h&z=18 That velodrome is smaller than I thought. Do you know the banking angles? Ours is 47 degrees in the corners; Sloten looks shallower than that, but looks can be deceiving. The layout looks pretty much the same as ours. I'll not soon forget what my learn-to-ride instructor said on the first night: once you're an expert at this velodrome, you're like a super-expert at any other velodrome (referring especially to the big, flabby outdoor tracks like Juan de Fuca and Marymoor). -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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Ryan Cousineau wrote:
That velodrome is smaller than I thought. Do you know the banking angles? Ours is 47 degrees in the corners; Sloten looks shallower than that, but looks can be deceiving. Same: 47. 'Het Kuipke' in Gent is 166 m long and 50.6 degrees. Brutal. |
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Ted van de Weteringe wrote: Ryan Cousineau wrote: That velodrome is smaller than I thought. Do you know the banking angles? Ours is 47 degrees in the corners; Sloten looks shallower than that, but looks can be deceiving. Same: 47. 'Het Kuipke' in Gent is 166 m long and 50.6 degrees. Brutal. Makes sense, as they're built to what look like identical dimensions. Given that our track was built in the 1990s, it may have been modeled after Sloten. In Ontario, there's the Forest City Velodrome: http://www.forestcityvelodrome.ca/track_rules.php 138m! Apparently 50 degrees as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGcwWmQxX7A -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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