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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    NervexProf wrote:
    The man from the 'Independent tackles the 'Hour'

    A fascinating and honest article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycl ... 81420.html

    The journos hour could be a thing, I think he beat the guy from Sporza with that pace.

    Robocyclo found out the city hire out the Kuipke and let our minds wander to a club attempt on the hour. Nobody wanted to ride it though...
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    NervexProf wrote:
    The man from the 'Independent tackles the 'Hour'

    A fascinating and honest article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycl ... 81420.html

    The journos hour could be a thing, I think he beat the guy from Sporza with that pace.

    Robocyclo found out the city hire out the Kuipke and let our minds wander to a club attempt on the hour. Nobody wanted to ride it though...

    An attempt at the Hour on the Kuipke, you'd need a neck like the Hulk
    @JaunePeril

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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Cracking read. Hopefully Boardman will be on commentary somewhere for Wiggins' ride.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    NervexProf wrote:
    The man from the 'Independent tackles the 'Hour'

    A fascinating and honest article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycl ... 81420.html

    The journos hour could be a thing, I think he beat the guy from Sporza with that pace.

    Robocyclo found out the city hire out the Kuipke and let our minds wander to a club attempt on the hour. Nobody wanted to ride it though...

    An attempt at the Hour on the Kuipke, you'd need a neck like the Hulk

    On the other hand, when folk go on about riding on the track being about "moving air out of the way", with a smaller track like Kuipke, that air should still be mostly out of your way when you come around each lap...
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    British Cycling are saying Wiggos attempt should be viewable on Pick (Freeview channel 11) as well as Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports youtube channel
  • johnboy183
    johnboy183 Posts: 832
    Pokerface wrote:
    Just managed to confirm my date to do the Hour...

    Will be having a go at the Paracycling Hour Record for my category (sits at 41km currently) with my target being 43km!

    Oct 10 in Manchester in conjunction with the World Track Masters. So folks can come along and cheer/jeer. Details much later!

    And if you have any spare change sitting down the back of the sofa you can spare, hop along to http://www.rioleg.com and help me fund a new cycling leg for RIo. And for the Hour!


    Great news. Hopefully get there to cheer you along. Any idea what time?
  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    Just read this on another forum:

    Riders need a few attempts to hit their best. Obree's best was ~2.5km faster than his first attempt. Boardman more than 4km (with better equipment), and Rominger nearly 1.5km only 2 weeks later. And none of these guys were at altitude either, which I think will show a significant benefit

    would be nice if Wiggo had a couple of gos at it this year
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Hutch posting on twitter that v high pressure expected in London that weekend, added to a notoriously slower track could cost him up to 1kph
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    coriordan wrote:
    Hutch posting on twitter that v high pressure expected in London that weekend, added to a notoriously slower track could cost him up to 1kph

    why is London notoriously slow? Is it the boards? I thought the whole air control system was supposed to make it fast.
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  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    awavey wrote:
    British Cycling are saying Wiggos attempt should be viewable on Pick (Freeview channel 11) as well as Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports youtube channel

    Thanks for the heads up on this that's great to know.

    Channel 152 on Sky
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    British Cycling are saying Wiggos attempt should be viewable on Pick (Freeview channel 11) as well as Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports youtube channel

    Thanks for the heads up on this that's great to know.

    Channel 152 on Sky


    Anything on the UCI channel?
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,437
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    British Cycling are saying Wiggos attempt should be viewable on Pick (Freeview channel 11) as well as Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports youtube channel

    Thanks for the heads up on this that's great to know.

    Channel 152 on Sky

    The Cycling Podcast guys are doing a live pod too, I reckon it will be a good alternative commentary especially for Daniel Friebe's insight into track cycling ;-)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    coriordan wrote:
    Hutch posting on twitter that v high pressure expected in London that weekend, added to a notoriously slower track could cost him up to 1kph

    why is London notoriously slow? Is it the boards? I thought the whole air control system was supposed to make it fast.


    Not sure.

    "1030mb air pressure in London next Sunday. That's not good for an Hour record attempt."

    "Combination of slow London track and the forecast air pressure means Wiggins prob has over 1km of handicap to deal with"
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    coriordan wrote:
    Hutch posting on twitter that v high pressure expected in London that weekend, added to a notoriously slower track could cost him up to 1kph

    Wiggins:
    "The weather forecast for the first week in June is abnormally low pressure for London for that time of year, which is fantastic. That has dictated everything. You could go a kilometre either way depending on air pressure."

    So which one is talking BS?
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    These wild atmospheric pressure swings also play havoc with one's tea preparation, measurably reducing the temperature at which water boils as air pressure drops. Never commission a water boiler during a storm. You'll be steaming when the sun shines.

    Pressure will be high on Saturday.

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  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    The last week;

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    Forecast for sunday is 1030mb. Hutch knows his stuff.
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Wiggins interview was some time ago I think - hence 'in June' rather than 'this week'.

    Hutch is talking about forecast as of today I guess.

    Weather forecasts change a fair bit even over a few days.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    frenchfighter wrote:
    coriordan wrote:
    Hutch posting on twitter that v high pressure expected in London that weekend, added to a notoriously slower track could cost him up to 1kph

    Wiggins:
    "The weather forecast for the first week in June is abnormally low pressure for London for that time of year, which is fantastic. That has dictated everything. You could go a kilometre either way depending on air pressure."

    So which one is talking BS?

    Neither, the forecast has changed and the low pressure is now unlikely...but it is only a forecast.

    The important thing is they agree on the science.
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    what Wiggo needs is a fuck off thunderstorm on Sunday
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Better legs would be preferable.

    Haven't seen any chat of pressure affecting anything in any of the other hour records until Wiggins mentioned it.
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Before the Olympics Boardman was singing the praises of the Olympic velo being the fastest in the world - sealed doors and all that to ensure temp and air pressure is well controlled etc. Was he talking out of his arse then?
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    ZeeNews wrote:
    It didn`t take long for the Olympic cyclists to learn that the London Velodrome track is one of the fastest in the world.

    On the opening day of the six-day track competition yesterday, riders set six world records in two different events on the super fast track made of Siberian pine wood.
    http://zeenews.india.com/sports/london- ... 46713.html
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Wiggins says that whatever distance he rides, he won't attempt to beat any distance beyond that - see here

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/32988371
    Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
  • SpokeyDokeyBlog
    SpokeyDokeyBlog Posts: 17
    Here's some more information on the Hour Record & how far Brad's body will ride compared to the track distance (sorry, it's quite nerdy).
    http://spokeydokeyblog.com/2015/06/03/t ... nge-quirk/
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    SpokeyDokeyBlog wrote:
    Here's some more information on the Hour Record & how far Brad's body will ride compared to the track distance (sorry, it's quite nerdy).
    http://spokeydokeyblog.com/2015/06/03/t ... nge-quirk/

    Hmm, but the distance the tyre travels at the point of contact with the track is a true rolling motion and it is the distance the tyre travels over that hour, is it not?
    What this'nerdy' article is saying is that the drag for a taller rider is less significant because his head is nearer t the centre of rotation. Or is that a misinterpretation of the facts?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    If Wiggo cba (can be 4rsed) he'll trash the previous record and I think what is ominous is that he can be 4rsed.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    pinarello001 wrote:
    If Wiggo cba (can be 4rsed) he'll trash the previous record and I think what is ominous is that he can be 4rsed.
    I think you can guarantee he'll be arsed.
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    OnYourRight wrote:
    I have an ominous feeling this is going to end up like Wiggins’s last Paris–Roubaix: underperformance. Not that I doubt he’ll break the record, but I wonder about 55 km.
    With what Hutch has been saying on twitter about the forecast air pressure on Sunday being likely to cost Wiggo as much as 1km, I'm starting to think that 55km will be too much for him even in full can be arsed mode.

    I'll be there to find out though and really looking forward to it.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Daz555 wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    I have an ominous feeling this is going to end up like Wiggins’s last Paris–Roubaix: underperformance. Not that I doubt he’ll break the record, but I wonder about 55 km.
    With what Hutch has been saying on twitter about the forecast air pressure on Sunday being likely to cost Wiggo as much as 1km, I'm starting to think that 55km will be too much for him even in full can be arsed mode.

    I'll be there to find out though and really looking forward to it.

    In a room with sealed doors and climate control, how much does external air pressure matter?
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  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    He seems v. bullish and confident. He says he's done 55kph for 40 mins, I'll suspect more like 50 mins. This is his final moment in a discipline and environment that he excels in. I think it will be near 56kph.
    M.Rushton

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