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ianrobo wrote:good question
good question on weight but Porte in Paris to Nice looked very thin and thinner than before.OK – but to go back to the original point; do you really think that there is something deeply suspicious about a modern, climbing oriented (normally shorter) professional rider, who is local to the climb and can pick when he rides, possibly starting from further down the road and weighing (as near as I can find out) about 10kg less actually going about 65 seconds than Armstrong did in 1999 (when power was, briefly, going down) ?
ianrobo wrote:Armstrong ….
Armstrong …. Some of the power readings people are working out are better than at the height of EPO etc,Do you think we should be cynical at this ?
Maybe, maybe not, there’s clearly still doping going on – any particular example… person, climber, sprinter ?
That said, as you know, it’s not all about raw power output, particularly climbing – how much weight would Armstrong (in 1999) give away to Porte just before the Tour in 2014 do you reckon ?
Edit : BTW, I assume these times are taken from the same place. LA apparently started his timing from a supermarket on the way out of Menton, whilst Sky (not necessarily Richie) start a bit further down the road by the bus stop.
ianrobo wrote:This story says
This story says why people are cynicalfaster than LA ?? you have to query if you can be after what he did
What – that he beat Chris Froome by abut 1.5% or Lance by about 3% ?
FWIW i’m using a Bryton Rider
FWIW i’m using a Bryton Rider 35 with the same speed/cadence sensor – had it a couple of years now, works OK for me once the sensor is registering both magnets (something it seems to be getting more twitchy about as time goes on, even with a new battery).Don’t know enough about the head unit internals to comment on whether that’s relevant or not, but both are spec’d to support the ANT+ combined speed/cadence profile so i’d hope both should work in theory.
Sorry can’t be more help.
daddyELVIS wrote:To eradicate
To eradicate that completely will mean starting again – a clean slate – new racesWat ?
(the Tour de France couldn’t continue as it is and expect nobody to dope to win a mountain-top finish!So are you saying that Froome was doping in 2013 at the Tour ?
Judge dreadful
You are thick as well as a prick! You say you don’t care, then go on a rant that suggests the opposite!
I find those two things are usually attributed to people who make judgements on people they’ve never met, on an Internet forum. Ohhhhhhhh you are the epitome of irony.
You actually said that, didn’t you ? To someone else ? That’s genius – a sort of irony mobius strip….
middlering wrote:Interesting
Interesting that only two comments are peripheral criticism of standards, or lack thereof, rather than suitability of markdown for posting on the forums.No malice intended middlering – just intended as a light-hearted take on the perennial “why doesn’t your website support X ? X is a great scripting/markup language !”
markdown has some nice features but given all the low hanging fruit and more is already covered it’s probably not high on the list of pressing development issues 😉
joemmo wrote:bashthebox
Those of us with hairy chests struggle with all HRMs until a good sweat gets worked up. Annoying. I have even pondered shaving a stripe across myself.
The Mio fuse looks like a great idea but my god, why is it so bloody expensive? If a normal chest HR strap is 30 quid, why can’t someone make a wrist/arm one for that money?Just put some water on the contact points before you or it on and it will work from the start IME, no need to wait until you are providing your own conducting liquid…
This, IME. I just lick my thumb and rub it across the contact areas, seems to work fine from the get-go. I tend to get the other problem where the readings can start to go a bit bananas if there’s too much conductive fluid around….
Judge dreadful wrote:They’re
They’re known as ‘full pro kit wankers’. I play a game of ‘orbit the FPKW’ whenever I encounter them. It involves passing them, then usually getting some obnoxious comment as you pass them. Then slow down and let them pass ( usually another knob comment as they do). Then catch them, and pass really close. Then repeat until they bugger off / give up.Wow, just wow…. and you still call people ‘wankers’ who might, for whatever reason, be wearing some team kit without any sense of irony ?
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tom_w wrote:PS: Thanks for
PS: Thanks for all the replies so far. It would be really helpful if people could mention whether they’ve used the cage they are recommending with the new style podium (the one pictured) as some people have, just so I know if it’s a general or specific recommendation. Ta :)Apologies – meant to include that. The Elite Pria Pave haven’t been tested with the new Camel bottles although one would hope they would be a decent bet due to the ability to crank them down on any bottle (but you never know…).
userfriendly wrote:Have some
Have some picsI’m not normally a fan of brown leathery looking stuff but that bike looks absolutely gorgeous – top job Sir !
FWIW i’ve been using the
FWIW i’ve been using the Elite Pria Pave cages for about a year now – BOA-esque adjustment, very snug.
sparker3000 wrote:Thanks
Thanks Flyingscot, not sure to be honest, they don’t look like they’d fit as they are like an mtb bolt through with quick release lever.Fukawatribe – hadn’t thought of rollers, will google them thanks!
Thank you, but that might have been levermonkey that suggested that 🙂 Rollers are a good call, but it does depend to some extent what sort of training you want to do. I love them, and they really do help with balance, control, core strength and smoothness IME – even after short periods. As also mentioned, they are also ridiculously convenient to use and pack away. Marvellous. However… if you like to completely relax during sessions then that’s going to take a bit of time, and if you’re doing a lot of sprint training then I hope you’re a lot better on them than me (being better at sprinting than me probably won’t tax most people).
I have both because I like to do different things for which one is not suited, but the other is, but clearly that’s not for everyone – but I think you have to go quite a way to beat rollers for price, performance, convenience and benefits. Just don’t let your mind wonder…. ever 😉
ianrobo wrote:Thing is with
Thing is with this if this was happened at say Astana or another foreign team would people still be putting up the same defence ?If that team had tried to take an explicit stance against doping such as Sky, and had been as open with the relevant authorities with their data and testing regimes then yes – I think most would, or should.
Sky have made mistakes, they’ve even admitted some of them, but they also seem to be one of the teams that are at least trying to do something decent. Their racing may be have been dull as dish-water for long periods of time but I have quite a bit of time for their regulatory behaviour. Brailsford seems to rub some folk up the wrong way but that in itself doesn’t make them guilty of anything.