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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    edited April 2015
    You got a free pie for going to watch Graeme O'Bree. £49 !! I hear that you could buy a whole snail farm in Cornwall for that.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Typical cyclists, think nothing of spending £35 on a carbon bottle cage to save them 10g but don't want to pay £49 to see possibly the last accessible (Unless you live in Brazil) decent thing that one of the greatest British cyclists ever does right on their doorstep ;-)

    There are support races, not sure what, I'm not bothered what they are as long as they help build up the atmosphere, it's kind of like seeing the bands you've never heard of at a gig before the main act. I reckon the atmosphere will be awesome, not sure why the upper tier is the same price as the lower (I got lower, near the finish line) but I bet they sell out.

    Wiggo is in motivational mode at the moment which is always a joy to watch, he wants his name up there with the greats so there is no reason why he can't do it.

    I would love to have seen Alex do it and I missed out on the first one for obvious reasons, from what I gather it was prohibitively expensive for him to do it at Lee Valley and I can't make it now it's up in Manchester, there are still a bunch of his old club members going so the blue and white will be represented in the crowd. I hope Alex gets it but with Wiggins having a go as well I fear it might be short lived.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Pokerface wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Does anyone know if there are any events before Dowsett's attempt?


    There are no other attempts scheduled currently.

    Sorry, haven't written my question very well. Is there any racing taking place before Dowsett's attempt, like there is before Wiggins'?
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    Id have liked to have watched Dowsetts attempt but the date isn't good for me, I guess doing it over a bank holiday weekend when theres a pretty big weekend of road racing going on isn't going to be great for ticket sales.

    On the basis that Wiggins does a pretty decent time, Id reckon the whole thing will be done with, to an extent, for a while. Wiggin's position is pretty unique and there can't be many riders who could dedicate such time to it .... I do wonder how good this is for Dowsetts career in the bigger picture given that he may only hold the record for a month or so? he seems to have pretty much done nothing else and I see he's not on the Giro long list.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Can't see anyone getting near Wiggo for a while either. He looks in decent enough form, he's as good as anyone in a long TT and his track experience will give him a slight but possibly important edge over the likes of Martin or Cancellera if they were to attempt it.
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Yes!!!!! £29 tickets coming my way!!!

    all gone in about 10-15 mins.....I don't know how may were pre sold to sky/rapha.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    mroli wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.

    Cool :) I really hope it happens for him.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    CarbonClem wrote:
    mroli wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.

    Cool :) I really hope it happens for him.

    Talked to him in Glasgow and he said pretty much this.
  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    sjmclean wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    mroli wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.

    Cool :) I really hope it happens for him.

    Talked to him in Glasgow and he said pretty much this.

    Talked to him at the Blue Egg Cafe and he said the same to me.
  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    PBo wrote:
    Yes!!!!! £29 tickets coming my way!!!

    all gone in about 10-15 mins.....I don't know how may were pre sold to sky/rapha.

    Well given that the sky link worked for anyone, I'm not a sky customer and I'm certainly not a Rapha CC member and I bought a few.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    So I questioned that the prices might be a little on the steep side and then they sell at the rate of One Direction tickets. Shows what I know, eh?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    RichN95 wrote:
    So I questioned that the prices might be a little on the steep side and then they sell at the rate of One Direction tickets. Shows what I know, eh?

    If you knew what you were doing, you would go halfers with me on a snail farm in Cornwall.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    RichN95 wrote:
    So I questioned that the prices might be a little on the steep side and then they sell at the rate of One Direction tickets. Shows what I know, eh?

    My daughter informs me that you don't even get a full quota of One Direction for the cash these days, whereas you presumably get 100% Wiggins for your money.

    Crueller fingers than mine would type "Sky beg to disagree" at this point, but...
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    My daughter informs me that you don't even get a full quota of One Direction for the cash these days, whereas you presumably get 100% Wiggins for your money.

    Crueller fingers than mine would type "Sky beg to disagree" at this point, but...

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,653
    pinarello001 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    So I questioned that the prices might be a little on the steep side and then they sell at the rate of One Direction tickets. Shows what I know, eh?

    If you knew what you were doing, you would go halfers with me on a snail farm in Cornwall.

    I would, but I'm saving for a donkey sanctuary.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    pinarello001 wrote:
    You got a free pie for going to watch Graeme O'Bree. £49 !! I hear that you could buy a whole snail farm in Cornwall for that.

    Paul Weller should take a minute out of promotions for his latest album with a motivational track centre performance - perhaps with a specially commissioned song "Give Me 56 For My 49"...
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    You got a free pie for going to watch Graeme O'Bree. £49 !! I hear that you could buy a whole snail farm in Cornwall for that.

    Paul Weller should take a minute out of promotions for his latest album with a motivational track centre performance - perhaps with a specially commissioned song "Give Me 56 For My 49"...

    Aim High
    Start!
    From The Floorboards Up
    Round and Round
    Time Passes ...
    Push It Along
    Private Hell
    Up The Dosage
    I Got By In Time
    That's Entertainment!

    There's a few Weller tracks to consider!
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Ashbeck wrote:
    sjmclean wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    mroli wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.

    Cool :) I really hope it happens for him.

    Talked to him in Glasgow and he said pretty much this.

    Talked to him at the Blue Egg Cafe and he said the same to me.

    Talked to him at the club dinner last!

    Anyone on this forum not seen Alex recently? :)
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Ashbeck wrote:
    sjmclean wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    mroli wrote:
    CarbonClem wrote:
    I see he's not on the Giro long list.
    He doesn't want to ride the Giro. He wants to ride the Tour. He was gutted to miss out last year and he told me (earlier this year) that he is fully focussed on making the tour team and that even the hour record attempt is of less importance to him.
    I asked him "why" he was so tour fixated especially given the Giro's nice long TT, and the TTT and he said "because its the Tour isn't it"...
    He really wants to ride it.

    Cool :) I really hope it happens for him.

    Talked to him in Glasgow and he said pretty much this.



    Talked to him at the Blue Egg Cafe and he said the same to me.

    Talked to him at the club dinner last!

    Anyone on this forum not seen Alex recently? :)

    Can't say I've seen him on the Peel-Douglas Road lately...
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Haha, you never know his family are petrolheads, they might go to the TT ;-)
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Wiggins just did 16mins at +55kph pace !!
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    inseine wrote:
    Wiggins just did 16mins at +55kph pace !!
    Indeed:

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,316
    ...and times that by roughly 4?! Big big ask to do it that pace for the duration. I guess Wiggo must be in a can BA mode.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good stuff. Expect nothing less than 55 anyway.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,653
    Impressive consistency. 1.08 seconds difference between fastest and slowest kms (1m 04.74s, 1m 05.82s)

    He'll have some very good data from that and will know exactly what he needs to do to keep it up for an hour.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    That will screw with Dowsett's head if his training numbers don't match... The last thing anyone wants is for riding around a track for an hour to be seen as futile...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,653
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    That will screw with Dowsett's head if his training numbers don't match... The last thing anyone wants is for riding around a track for an hour to be seen as futile...

    I think he'll be happy if he gets to hold the record until Wiggins goes. Don't think anyone's got any expectation of him being able to lift the bar higher than Wiggins can reach.

    Plus he'll actually get plenty of exposure in Wiggins' attempt if the record is his.
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  • ic.
    ic. Posts: 769
    BW has posted a short clip of him on the London velodrome. What's interesting I thought was the bikes he's riding. Previous pics have shown what looks to be a Bolide, but in the clip he's riding a UK Sport Institute bike
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  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    Daz555 wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    Wiggins just did 16mins at +55kph pace !!
    Indeed:

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    I thought Brad didn't do social media?

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