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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    Dunno who it is but is it a woman with hairy arms or a man with a good cup size? At least we were spared the face!!!
  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Dunno who it is but is it a woman with hairy arms or a man with a good cup size? At least we were spared the face!!!
    Lol. It's a bloke, someone I managed to grab in the workshop to hold them whilst I got the photo taken today.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Ah it looked like it was a signed one but it must be printed. I was going to compliment you on your perfectly manicured lawn :D

    Looks like astroturf to me.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Dunno who it is but is it a woman with hairy arms or a man with a good cup size? At least we were spared the face!!!
    I didn't like to say but that was my exact thoughts!
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    mfin wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Ah it looked like it was a signed one but it must be printed. I was going to compliment you on your perfectly manicured lawn :D

    Looks like astroturf to me.
    Yeah, the posh stuff for your back garden that's about £50 per m2
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  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Dunno who it is but is it a woman with hairy arms or a man with a good cup size? At least we were spared the face!!!
    I didn't like to say but that was my exact thoughts!
    Bit harsh on the guy. I'll have to be more select in showing this kind of stuff again. I'll get one of the girls in a bikini next time.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Sorry JSCL, possibly just some unfortunate lighting there. Interesting photo there though. Seems like the manufacturers all have a bike they can offer with discs. I rode a bike with road discs tonight and there does seem to be a bit more feel and modulation but with the rumours the UCI are going to lower the weight limit I wonder where discs fit in with that as at the moment they are heavier than caliper brakes.
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  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Sorry JSCL, possibly just some unfortunate lighting there. Interesting photo there though. Seems like the manufacturers all have a bike they can offer with discs. I rode a bike with road discs tonight and there does seem to be a bit more feel and modulation but with the rumours the UCI are going to lower the weight limit I wonder where discs fit in with that as at the moment they are heavier than caliper brakes.
    It's true, but the Dogma hydro - the lightest I've seen it built at to date was 7.1kg I think. So it's not too far astray from the current UCI limit. But ultimately in an ideal world, everything will be as light as possible. If it means sticking to good old calipers to save half a kilo or more... than that's the way forward at the moment.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    JSCL wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Sorry JSCL, possibly just some unfortunate lighting there. Interesting photo there though. Seems like the manufacturers all have a bike they can offer with discs. I rode a bike with road discs tonight and there does seem to be a bit more feel and modulation but with the rumours the UCI are going to lower the weight limit I wonder where discs fit in with that as at the moment they are heavier than caliper brakes.
    It's true, but the Dogma hydro - the lightest I've seen it built at to date was 7.1kg I think. So it's not too far astray from the current UCI limit. But ultimately in an ideal world, everything will be as light as possible. If it means sticking to good old calipers to save half a kilo or more... than that's the way forward at the moment.
    I think there could possibly be some weight to be saved from the rim, without the stresses a brake puts on the rim in terms of compression there may be some savings to be had.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Still on Bonts
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Tour of Gila 2014. Only in America :roll:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Note the power meter :roll:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Don't SKY repeatedly say that they don't actually have power data on screen as it doesn't help?
    They're sponsored by STAGES so it makes sense to have it written there and I would guess TT data is pretty useful?

    Sometimes, Frenchie, one does wonder....
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Garmin.
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  • markwb79
    markwb79 Posts: 937
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Garmin.

    Which is just an ANT+ cycling computer. Not necessarily a power meter.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Markwb79 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Garmin.

    Which is just an ANT+ cycling computer. Not necessarily a power meter.

    The fact that it has Stages written on it would suggest otherwise.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    madasahattersley wrote:
    Tried talking to Alessandro Petacchi on the other hand and he was the most arrogant @rsewipe I've ever met.

    .

    I don't think you should make statements like this - how do you know he wasn't having a really bad day ....or he found you annoying !

    It biases peoples opinions and is based on your one brief encounter
  • DiscoBoy
    DiscoBoy Posts: 905
    inseine wrote:
    Markwb79 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Garmin.

    Which is just an ANT+ cycling computer. Not necessarily a power meter.

    The fact that it has Stages written on it would suggest otherwise.

    You mean that if I put a stages sticker on my garmin 500, it gives me power data?
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    DiscoBoy wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    Markwb79 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Garmin.

    Which is just an ANT+ cycling computer. Not necessarily a power meter.

    The fact that it has Stages written on it would suggest otherwise.

    You mean that if I put a stages sticker on my garmin 500, it gives me power data?

    Worth a try...... :wink:
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    The funny thing is, if some people are so convinced that Sky are such evil powermeter led robots, I would have thought they'd want to use a more accurate power meter than Stages - that Stages themselves state as having "±2% accuracy of strain gage measured power".

    (This is not me defending Sky, I don't have favourite teams, wall posters and team duvet sets).
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    It has nothing to do with Sky using powermeters. It has more to do with it being a little silly them promoting garmin when they are not sponsored by them. They use a garmin headunit as stages dont do one themselves.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It has nothing to do with Sky using powermeters. It has more to do with it being a little silly them promoting garmin when they are not sponsored by them. They use a garmin headunit as stages dont do one themselves.

    No problem, you won't have to mention Sky and Powermeters this season then :)

    Well, what other head unit should they use then? Plus, they're using it, not promoting it. I'm just off to take the badges off everything I own.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    How is that promoting them?
    What do you suggest they do instead, for additional marginal gainzzzzzzz
  • keef_zip
    keef_zip Posts: 295
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It has nothing to do with Sky using powermeters. It has more to do with it being a little silly them promoting garmin when they are not sponsored by them. They use a garmin headunit as stages dont do one themselves.

    So....exactly the same as Contador promoting Lightweight, by riding their disc wheel. Ergo, Contador and his team are silly.

    Thanks for clearing that up FF.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    No it's different because Sky are robots who can't react to a change in a race situation when the Sky train gets de-railed and are the highest paid robots in the peloton.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Well it would be if it wasnt rebranded. Contador doesnt go around with lightweight written on his wheels.

    You two got anything interesting to post to this thread or you just popping in to talk BS then leaving?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited May 2014
    If anyone could show me a 2014 pic of a decent TTer or GT rider TTing without a powermeter I ll declare them king of the world

    Seriously how many times do we have to have this ridiculous conversation... :roll:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    mfin wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    It has nothing to do with Sky using powermeters. It has more to do with it being a little silly them promoting garmin when they are not sponsored by them. They use a garmin headunit as stages dont do one themselves.

    No problem, you won't have to mention Sky and Powermeters this season then :)

    Well, what other head unit should they use then? Plus, they're using it, not promoting it. I'm just off to take the badges off everything I own.

    Dont believe I have made mention of it this season. There is no need. They have other problems to worry about although maybe their poor performances can be put down to mis calibration of the new powermeters resulting in poor racing plus fatigued and crooked riders?

    They could black it out.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    ddraver wrote:
    If anyone could show me a 2014 pic of a decent TTer or GT rider TTing without a powermeter I ll declare them king of the world

    Seriously how many times do we have to have this ridiculous conversation... :roll:

    What conversation are we having? About powermeters usage? Better go and read again. This is a pro gear thread FYI.
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  • keef_zip
    keef_zip Posts: 295
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Well it would be if it wasnt rebranded. Contador doesnt go around with lightweight written on his wheels.

    You two got anything interesting to post to this thread or you just popping in to talk BS then leaving?

    It's so funny how you make yourself look stupid. http://macmuiris.com/image/79993312516

    See that image - yes, the one of Contador riding a Lightweight disc which has been rebranded as a Zipp!

    May be it's time for you to stop talking BS.

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