Olympic MTB without a seat!!!
chazkayak
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Anyone else notice that Fontana (italian) di most of the last lap without a seat/post????? And the copmmentators didnt even notice!!!!
l lost my seat on the last section of the Mega qualifier and it was a real pain in the ass(literally) trying to ride without one.
Well done Fontana for not losing any places through having to stay stood up!!!
l lost my seat on the last section of the Mega qualifier and it was a real pain in the ass(literally) trying to ride without one.
Well done Fontana for not losing any places through having to stay stood up!!!
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Yeh I spotted that, surprised they never spotted it fly off on the rocky downhill bitTrek Fuel EX80
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Must have got it from Wiggle.I don't do smileys.
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I couldn't believe that the commentators didn't notice it, even though Fontana was in contention at the time he lost it!!0
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Boardman was ok as the tech guy, but at one point whoever was commentating mentioned some of the bikes having a single ring up front = 11 gears.I don't do smileys.
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cooldad wrote:Boardman was ok as the tech guy, but at one point whoever was commentating mentioned some of the bikes having a single ring up front = 11 gears.
Yeah.....
Like Sram XX1. It would seem possible that the pros have access to it. Not sure if they could/would use 'road' stuff, which has had 11 speed for longer.0 -
I'd say with careful gear choices it would be entirely possible some were running 11speed road cassettes at the back. There wasn't much if any flat, and so there wouldn't be much need for the huge gears, and the climbs were short and sharp. When my boyfriend bought his mountain bike, he bought it from someone who had competed at the olympics at the kilo. It had a road cassette on it, no need for those granny gears!0
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I'm pretty certain they did mention it.chazkayak wrote:Anyone else notice that Fontana (italian) di most of the last lap without a seat/post????? And the copmmentators didnt even notice!!!!
l lost my seat on the last section of the Mega qualifier and it was a real pain in the ass(literally) trying to ride without one.
Well done Fontana for not losing any places through having to stay stood up!!!0 -
A bunch of riders have been using XX1 gearing in the world cup races throughout the season - they definitely had it at Windham and I am pretty sure it was mentioned for val d'isere too.
Didn't the press shots of it come from a world cup xc bike?Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
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There wasn't much if any flat, and so there wouldn't be much need for the huge gears, and the climbs were short and sharp. When my boyfriend bought his mountain bike, he bought it from someone who had competed at the olympics at the kilo. It had a road cassette on it, no need for those granny gears!
A road cassette compromises on the low gears, not the high ones, and I'm not aware of anyone using 11-speed Campag on an MTB at World Cup level, pretty niche thing to do (do they even do flat bar shifters?).
I was looking at my photos last night, and judging by the size of the cassette Nino was certainly running XX1, so yes, 1x11, ie 11 gears.
Most of the top guys ran a single ring. The climbs were brutal, nothing over a couple of minutes, but fooking steep.0 -
and then there is finding a (or putting together) as suitable hub. well I supose shim/sram cogs and campy width spacers. but shifting.....njee20 wrote:I'm not aware of anyone using 11-speed Campag on an MTB at World Cup level, pretty niche thing to do (do they even do flat bar shifters?).
do they do flat bar 11spd shifters yet?"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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Sam Schultz’ race bike
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and then there is finding a (or putting together) as suitable hub. well I supose shim/sram cogs and campy width spacers. but shifting.....
do they do flat bar 11spd shifters yet?
Not totally insurmountable - Mavic, SRAM, DT, King all do Campag freehub bodies, but I certainly don't know on the shifters, as I said, not seen it done, and am fairly certain no one was running Campag yesterday.
Several on XX1 though obviously!
Braking surface on Sam's rims? Surely not!0 -
Very possible. They look to be non-eyeletted, which suggests Stan's. Got some photos of Sam from yesterday, will have a gander if there's any more clues (if he raced on them!).0
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aparently those rims are lighter than the std bontrager rims, which is why they used them.As for the rim brake rims: The Trek racing team has a stash of them that they build wheels with. Apparently, these rims are lighter than stock Bontrager wheels, but they are Bontrager, so the team can stay true to their sponsor.0
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Towards the end of the last lap he was sat on his top tube going through the tech area, the commentator noticed this but didn't think this was unusual, wtf ?
I once broke a seat and had to pedal 5 miles home, it's very tiring not being able to site down so hats off to this guy, I was impressed with the fitness of all of them, the leaders were sprinting up those hills lap after lap, my legs ached just watching.0 -
Avg speed was apparently 13mph :shock: thats a mental speed considering the length of the climbs!0
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Bit more, 20.3 miles, plus a small start lap in 1:29, getting on for 14mph. Insane.
Sam Schultz was using those rims and on XX1, hard to tell from the low-res Facebook photo:
That new Trek Superfly SL looks the mutts, particularly liked the Rwanda paint job!0 -
Sure I saw a few grip shifts there. Maybe that's why some of them were crashing on the rocks
... or more likely the seat shoved right up high up their arse. But yeah, shocked one of them could do it with no seat! :P 0
