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  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Wiggins may try again on Wednesday
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    deejay wrote:
    RonB wrote:
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    I'm Puzzled with this .
    Is this today's sheet with your friend Birdball yet to arrive or
    Is it the 2006 B Wiggins Cofidis 00:17:58.
    It just seems strange that Wiggins repeats his PB some 9 years later. :roll:

    repeats PB
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Don't think it would have been too fun riding with a solid back wheel if the reports about a strong easterly wind are correct.
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Big Cycling News 'FAIL' on their website

    'The current time trial world champion won the event in 15:58 minutes but that time was 38 seconds shy of Dowsett's record on the course held on the A63 between North Ferriby and North Cave.'
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  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    First 9 miles in 15' apparently, but down to 23mph into the wind in the last mile. Good thread on the timetrialling forum.
  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    Milton50 wrote:
    Don't think it would have been too fun riding with a solid back wheel if the reports about a strong easterly wind are correct.

    A disc doesn't really make a huge difference handling wise, it's the front wheel that can cause problems when it's windy
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good time from him but a bit of a blow that he couldn't go faster. Must train harder.
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  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Good time from him but a bit of a blow that he couldn't go faster. Must train harder.
    Yeah, he's probably been taking it far too easy recently...
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    The wind meant the record was never on - Hutch was saying the same on Twitter the day before.

    Here is the footage of Wiggo sweeping past his minute man - about 4:15 in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBN_ktV6tQ
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Daz555 wrote:
    The wind meant the record was never on - Hutch was saying the same on Twitter the day before.

    Here is the footage of Wiggo sweeping past his minute man - about 4:15 in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBN_ktV6tQ

    Amazing, almost looks like his minute man isn't even moving.

    Do we know what time his minute man did?
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    inseine wrote:
    deejay wrote:
    I'm Puzzled with this .
    Is this today's sheet with your friend Birdball yet to arrive or
    Is it the 2006 B Wiggins Cofidis 00:17:58.
    It just seems strange that Wiggins repeats his PB some 9 years later. :roll:
    repeats PB
    Yeh, got it and seen the other rider/spectator comments about the Force of the Wind. Quote it was Brutal.
    Must be a more satisfying PB, though.
    Wiggo gets all the plaudits for still riding the event and happily being cheerful for selfies and autographs and even going back to the HQ for a chat when he could have just buggered off.

    Only 4 minutes to be caught (by whoever) would mean that I would dig a Hole and Bury myself. :oops:
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • ai_1
    ai_1 Posts: 3,060
    deejay wrote:
    ....Only 4 minutes to be caught (by whoever) would mean that I would dig a Hole and Bury myself. :oops:
    Oh come on. Do you go out to try and beat yourself or everyone else? I know I can't win, if I'm happy with my performance it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    deejay wrote:
    Only 4 minutes to be caught (by whoever) would mean that I would dig a Hole and Bury myself. :oops:
    Bear in mind that it was an event for people who haven't done a time quicker than 22 minutes in the last 3 years...

    I got caught by Tejvan Pettinger after about 4 minutes in a hilly TT earlier this year, consoled myself with the fact that he's the former national hill climb champion and one of the best TTers in the country. But I think I was caught even more quickly by Andy Tennant in a our club 10 a few years back and I've not buried myself yet. It's good just to be in the events that these guys are riding.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    I think a 22 minute ten is quite respectable for a club rider!

    Sod riding along that road though, it looks bloody lethal
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    And I've been caught very quickly by the current hour and 10' holder several times. If we compared ourselves to him we might as well not bother but that's not what TTs are about.
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Paul 8v wrote:
    I think a 22 minute ten is quite respectable for a club rider!

    Sod riding along that road though, it looks bloody lethal

    Ridden there several times. I have to admit it IS a bit scary. First time I rode there I think I spent the entire time in the shoulder. Then I found out that most people ride in the left lane in the groove where car tyres go - it's the fastest surface. Plus the closer you get to the right lane - the more the passing cars drag you along.

    You just have to go for it. Plus with rider after rider on the road, most driver's kinda know to stick to the outside lane.

    Managed just over 21 mins there myself. Low-22 is the best I've done on local club courses. Just shows the boost the traffic can give you.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    The upside of TT'ing on the IOM is that it is quite safe from a traffic perspective but the downside is that it isn't particularly fast. we don't have any dual carriageways, the roads are rough and grainy and inevitably there is a gale blowing.

    We've yet to see the first sub 20 minute 10. No-one, including Boardman, Obree., little Pete or Cav have ever gone under 20 mins.

    Looks like Wiggins was flying from the start would be interesting to know what his time was at the turn.
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Paul 8v wrote:
    I think a 22 minute ten is quite respectable for a club rider!
    Sod riding along that road though, it looks bloody lethal
    Never did a 22 and never got under the hour 25.
    However as a former Timekeeper/Handicapper I had to assess performances ridden on the variety of courses.
    The time difference to the winners time is the one that matters and as time goes by as you can see PB's become less significant.
    thegibdog wrote:
    deejay wrote:
    Only 4 minutes to be caught (by whoever) would mean that I would dig a Hole and Bury myself. :oops:
    Bear in mind that it was an event for people who haven't done a time quicker than 22 minutes in the last 3 years...
    That sounds like a Middle Markers event which I could win but never won an Open Event with riders like Beryl Burton coming by after 45 mins.

    Edit
    Just a thought but Men didn't have 10 mile TT's to ride except as "Private" evening 10's with the Ladies and Juniors.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    his TT position makes me fell all funny in my tummy
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    For me it's the sinew coming out of his shorts at his knee.
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    frenchfighter wrote:
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    http://soigneur.nl/gallery/wiggins/#
    Loving the shot of the "not so aero guy" in the "very aero lid".
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  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,021
    I've done a pb of 19:45 and a 20:08 on the v718 off 325wAP/NP vs a 20:12 on Levens vs a 20:28 PB on a Scottish DC course with similar power I.e. low traffic and colder ambient air temperature). my CdA in Scotland is around 0.20-0.21 vs a CdA of 0.17 on the V718.

    the road surface at Levens (apart from the first mile!) and on the V718 is superb which makes a huge difference. the v718 is also pretty sheltered - almost in a small cutting along a lot of it which reduces the wind...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Funnily enough Wiggins caught me for 5 minutes on his was to a 19 at Leven's back in 2002. On a Dixie. Just after he'd ridden Giro.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    What helmet is that? I take it team Wiggins are not on KASK?
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  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,448
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    The wind meant the record was never on - Hutch was saying the same on Twitter the day before.

    Here is the footage of Wiggo sweeping past his minute man - about 4:15 in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBN_ktV6tQ

    Amazing, almost looks like his minute man isn't even moving.

    Do we know what time his minute man did?

    His PB was 26-something and he beat that, so he was averaging around 24/25mph. Wiggins would have been doing around 34mph average.
  • moonshine
    moonshine Posts: 1,021
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Funnily enough Wiggins caught me for 5 minutes on his was to a 19 at Leven's back in 2002. On a Dixie. Just after he'd ridden Giro.
    Wiggins pumped me for 12 minutes in an hour or so at last year's BTTC at Celtic Manor :shock: :oops: but it was a super technical sporting course :D
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    edited May 2015
    Ok I wasn't in Hull, but I was at Newmarket races where the wind blows pretty much uninterrupted off the North Sea even though it's a fair way. There were course records galore as the course is a straight east to west, even though the horses racing weren't top draw. Would never have been a day for too many PBs on an East/West course.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Paul 8v wrote:
    What helmet is that? I take it team Wiggins are not on KASK?

    One of the UK sport specials I think
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Paul 8v wrote:
    What helmet is that? I take it team Wiggins are not on KASK?

    Looks like a British Cycling one to me. Like they were using at the Olympics.

    UK_Sport_Olympic_aero_helmet1.jpg

    And I think Team Wiggins are using Giro.

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