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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    DL1987 wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    DL1987 wrote:
    Quickest way to get drunk - play the Carlton Kirby "for goodness sake" drinking game.

    That is not the quickest way. The quickest way is to have a sip for every lap. :roll:

    Might be a closer than you think that one ;-)

    Ha ha!

    Anyway I can't believe how Bradley looks like the Bradley of 10 years ago. The haircut, the beard gone, the weight difference.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    inseine wrote:
    Must be one of the biggest improvements?

    First A-class rider to go for it. Let's see the sort of times so other A-riders set who have 0 track experience in their legs.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Inspirational and impressive stuff.
    Mañana
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Heiko doesn't think he's pushed the bar high enough.

    Another record attempt after Rio I reckon (if he doesn't still hold it).
  • tonyf34
    tonyf34 Posts: 194
    I know it's a measured effort but if you're not virtually passing out and unable to walk you've not given it 'everything', superb distance & mahoosive effort but kinda feel it should have being further.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    So not sh!t and a disgrace then?

    Disappointed not to see a 55 handle but then I have read 100s of people saying it is all down to the weather.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,651
    Best thing about that ride is that he ditched the beard! I was wondering whether marginal gains would win out over his image. I wonder how much difference it would have made? I'm sure someone calculated it!
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    hammerite wrote:
    Heiko doesn't think he's pushed the bar high enough.

    Another record attempt after Rio I reckon (if he doesn't still hold it).

    If they were interested in putting the record out of reach, surely they'd have done it at altitude rather than in London in the summer? My feeling is that this was much more about the experience of breaking it than holding the record for as long as possible.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,466
    Still don't understand why you would kill yourself to set a record while knowing that deferring until the conditions were better would be worth another kilometre.

    But yeah, shave first.....
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I listened to 10 minutes of the Kirby commentary, so I'm pretty sure I know exactly how Wiggins felt at 50 / 52 minutes.

    Good ride, but like the man said, it's not out of reach.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Pross wrote:
    Best thing about that ride is that he ditched the beard! I was wondering whether marginal gains would win out over his image. I wonder how much difference it would have made? I'm sure someone calculated it!

    He said hardly any, but in the end it was a hardly any that was worth gaining.
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    k-dog wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    k-dog wrote:
    Supposedly it makes a big difference. When Beamon obliterated the long jump record he'd had a few goes and then there was thunder and lightning and someone persuaded him to go again and that's when he broke the record.
    That's not right. He broke it with his first jump.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_ ... _long_jump

    So he did - maybe there was a delay and he was told to go asap. The story I heard he made the jump soon after the storm - and obviously at altitude.

    Beamon's jump was a similar situation but I think I'm actually thinking of the famous Lewis/Powell duel. Either way there seems to be less air resistance in those conditions.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Please God somebody bring back David Duffield ....for goodness sake !!!! :twisted:
    The trouble with that is R2D2 yaking away beside him. (in the case of his friend Tony Rominger)

    Nice ride, well done but you need to stay on the Black Line in future to get more laps in.

    Seen it all before.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Good work the crowd. You're the real heroes
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Still don't understand why you would kill yourself to set a record while knowing that deferring until the conditions were better would be worth another kilometre.
    The atmospheric pressure would be lower in the "Winter" :roll:
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,651
    Surely riding without his helmet and taking a road bike on the track is a DQ offence?
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    sky are terrible at cycling
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • 99thmonkey
    99thmonkey Posts: 667
    Pross wrote:
    Best thing about that ride is that he ditched the beard!

    Did it tickle you when he kissed you!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,735
    Am I the only one rather underwhelmed by that...?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    Heiko doesn't think he's pushed the bar high enough.

    Another record attempt after Rio I reckon (if he doesn't still hold it).

    If they were interested in putting the record out of reach, surely they'd have done it at altitude rather than in London in the summer? My feeling is that this was much more about the experience of breaking it than holding the record for as long as possible.

    Agree about the choice of dates. But Wiggins has said he want to put it out of reach...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/32610892
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    ddraver wrote:
    Am I the only one rather underwhelmed by that...?

    Explain how
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,700
    Well Xavier took his time, but here it is, the graph you've been waiting for CG62hL0WwAAasxV.png

    Cheers Xavier https://twitter.com/xavierdisley
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Pross wrote:
    Best thing about that ride is that he ditched the beard! I was wondering whether marginal gains would win out over his image. I wonder how much difference it would have made? I'm sure someone calculated it!

    That tattoo ink in his right arm must have added a couple of grammes :)

    I never knew watching a gold and blue blur go round in circles would make my heart rate go up with excitement as I cheered him on. Congrats Sir Wiggins! I hope he's inspired some youngsters to get into our sport.
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Well Xavier took his time, but here it is, the graph you've been waiting for CG62hL0WwAAasxV.png

    Cheers Xavier https://twitter.com/xavierdisley
    Always amazed at the kind of consistency it's possible to achieve over 200+ laps, even with that last 10 minutes.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,700
    adr82 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Well Xavier took his time, but here it is, the graph you've been waiting for CG62hL0WwAAasxV.png

    Cheers Xavier https://twitter.com/xavierdisley
    Always amazed at the kind of consistency it's possible to achieve over 200+ laps, even with that last 10 minutes.

    I'm waiting for him to superimpose it over Dowsett's and the others splits. It'll be frightening.

    HIgh temperature increased fatigue, according to Xavier. 30C.
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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    If it was +30c and 1,040 mb then Wiggins has at least another km in him.
    Mañana
  • confused@BR
    confused@BR Posts: 295
    He put another mile (in old money) on the Hour. What do people want, blood???

    Well done Sir Bradley.
    'fool'
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    ddraver wrote:
    Am I the only one rather underwhelmed by that...?
    This might help to put it in perspective.

    New UCI Rules Introduced.
    Bradley Wiggins(GB) 54.526km London 07/06/2015
    Alex Dowsett (GB) 52.937km Manchester, 02/5/2015
    Rohan Dennis (Aus) 52.491km Switzerland, 08/2/2015
    Matthias Brändle (Aut) 51.852km Switzerland, 30/10/2014
    Jens Voigt (Ger) 51.115km Switzerland, 18/09/2014
    Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) 49.700km Moscow, 19/07/2005
    Chris Boardman (GB) 49.441km Manchester, 27/10/2000 (what, without a passport)

    Real All Comers Hour Record
    Chris Boardman (GB) 56.375km Manchester, 06/09/1996
    Tony Rominger (Sui) 55.291km Bordeaux, 05/11/1994
    Bradley Wiggins (GB) 54.526km London, 07/06/2015
    Tony Rominger (Sui) 53.832km Bordeaux, 22/10/1994
    Miguel Indurain (Spa) 53.040km Bordeaux, 02/09/1994
    Graeme Obree (GB) 52.719km Bordeaux, 27/04/1994
    Chris Boardman (GB) 52.270km Bordeaux, 23/07/1993
    Francesco Moser (Ita) 51.840km Mexico, 15/01/1994
    Graeme Obree (GB) 51.596km Hamar, 17/07/1993
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,466
    deejay wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Still don't understand why you would kill yourself to set a record while knowing that deferring until the conditions were better would be worth another kilometre.
    The atmospheric pressure would be lower in the "Winter" :roll:

    It would also be lower this coming Friday.....

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    deejay wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Am I the only one rather underwhelmed by that...?
    This might help to put it in perspective.

    New UCI Rules Introduced.
    Bradley Wiggins(GB) 54.526km London 07/06/2015
    Alex Dowsett (GB) 52.937km Manchester, 02/5/2015
    Rohan Dennis (Aus) 52.491km Switzerland, 08/2/2015
    Matthias Brändle (Aut) 51.852km Switzerland, 30/10/2014
    Jens Voigt (Ger) 51.115km Switzerland, 18/09/2014
    Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) 49.700km Moscow, 19/07/2005
    Chris Boardman (GB) 49.441km Manchester, 27/10/2000 (what, without a passport)

    Real All Comers Hour Record
    Chris Boardman (GB) 56.375km Manchester, 06/09/1996
    Tony Rominger (Sui) 55.291km Bordeaux, 05/11/1994
    Bradley Wiggins (GB) 54.526km London, 07/06/2015
    Tony Rominger (Sui) 53.832km Bordeaux, 22/10/1994
    Miguel Indurain (Spa) 53.040km Bordeaux, 02/09/1994
    Graeme Obree (GB) 52.719km Bordeaux, 27/04/1994
    Chris Boardman (GB) 52.270km Bordeaux, 23/07/1993
    Francesco Moser (Ita) 51.840km Mexico, 15/01/1994
    Graeme Obree (GB) 51.596km Hamar, 17/07/1993

    How come Brandle, Dennis and Dowsett aren't on the second list?
    "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'"

    @gietvangent

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