My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:55 pm
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ruscook » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:40 pm
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby MichaelB » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:51 pm
Me too. I get an average of over 30 (just) on my loops (stops for traffic lights) and that is a good solid effort.ruscook wrote:Thanks TLL. I'm amazed at the overall pace and distance you guys do. Love the reports.
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None of this av of over 35 km/hr or "roll along" at 65
Even mentioned it at paris Roubaix - " they are just rolling ablong the cobbles at 60 + km/hr " ...
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:14 pm
We are in pretty big bunches so if the roads are good you can keep pretty high averages.While 70 riders is no pro tour event...when you are stretched out in single file on small roads it is a long way from front to back!.Also the grading seems to be amazingly good here and no one seems to be "way" too strong for their group...although the kid that won is only 16! (but he was wearing a French National Champions jersey so I suppose he should be OK!).The thing I am loving here is riding on a new circuit every week..in Sydney I was a travelling racer doing races all over the place for the variety but have already had 6 or 7 seperate courses here which is so cool!.I think I could handle a hilly race in this grade but when (not if) I go up I think I will be out of my depth in the hills...the curse of having an OK sprint.MichaelB wrote:Me too. I get an average of over 30 (just) on my loops (stops for traffic lights) and that is a good solid effort.ruscook wrote:Thanks TLL. I'm amazed at the overall pace and distance you guys do. Love the reports.
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None of this av of over 35 km/hr or "roll along" at 65
Even mentioned it at paris Roubaix - " they are just rolling ablong the cobbles at 60 + km/hr " ...
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:32 am
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:10 am
But this video is of cycling heaven....OK I shot it on my mobile while riding one handed...the first time I went down was fast,but we climbed same mountain 4 times today from different directions so I got another chance...the corners are banked and the tarmac is perfect...and best of all the road is closed to traffic weekend mornings!!!!!!!!! .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbdfqSZZbk
..and of note...zero back pain and only slight knee pain after 100km of climbing.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ruscook » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:21 am
Lovely smooth road though. The free ride down looks like it almost makes the climb worthwhile What speeds were you doing in that video? I guess in the mid-30's but am not sure.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:12 pm
I would think 40 on the straights at least...was prett safe really ...the previous descent was quite a bit faster...and the road didn't have the other users on it so we hammered...but when I got to the bottom I thought I should of taken a video of that...so was good we got to do it again!.ruscook wrote:you mad bugger, riding down 1 handed????
Lovely smooth road though. The free ride down looks like it almost makes the climb worthwhile What speeds were you doing in that video? I guess in the mid-30's but am not sure.
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The climbs are always worth it...the way we came up had long sections at 20% and I felt rather good on them.But I only took two banana's with me and no money so by the end I was getting hungry and starting to fade...and today my blocked nose has spread to my head...grrr.Will make a trip to doctor today but will be very p'ed off if I had to go on antibiotics.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby mikesbytes » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:17 pm
How did you managed to hold the phone for all that time without dropping it? And its a smooth piece of video for hand held.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ruscook » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:45 am
Well done, and 40km/h holding a phone!!! Even more impressive. I'm still scared of the corners on Mitchell's Pass (won't go over 40 on steep narrow roads, since I came off last year), let alone coming down one handed. Keep it up, we're enjoying the vicarious riding, and the motivation is great!toolonglegs wrote:No cars as they are not aloud.Smooth camera holding because the road was soooo smooth...I just held the phone up to my face and rode down sitting quite upright.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:54 pm
ruscook wrote:Well done, and 40km/h holding a phone!!! Even more impressive. I'm still scared of the corners on Mitchell's Pass (won't go over 40 on steep narrow roads, since I came off last year), let alone coming down one handed. Keep it up, we're enjoying the vicarious riding, and the motivation is great!toolonglegs wrote:No cars as they are not aloud.Smooth camera holding because the road was soooo smooth...I just held the phone up to my face and rode down sitting quite upright.
Russ
Usually I wouldn't do it but with banked corners and silky smooth road I thought I would give it a go...wasn't expecting to get to the bottom like that but just kept on rolling.
I want a little device on my bars that I can stick my little camera in on a race and get some live in the peloton footage .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby sogood » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:12 pm
But where are those tracteurs?toolonglegs wrote:But this video is of cycling heaven....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbdfqSZZbk.
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby noload » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:54 pm
Biking while seeing the beautiful land your traveling through.
It's just amazing seeing the world in a different perspective
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ruscook » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:34 pm
They do make GPS mounts for pushy and motorbike handlebars so you must be able to get something like that. Have a look at the GPS shops. If worse comes to worse, cable ties are the duct tape of the 21st centurytoolonglegs wrote:.....I want a little device on my bars that I can stick my little camera in on a race and get some live in the peloton footage .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby giwi2 » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:22 pm
The scenery there would add soooooo much more to the ride in terms of sheer enjoyment of simply getting out there for a ride.
A little bit hard to achieve here in WA.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby muggah » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:38 am
Helmet cam? This guy has gotten some great results wearing one in races - really cool footage IMO.toolonglegs wrote: I want a little device on my bars that I can stick my little camera in on a race and get some live in the peloton footage .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:49 pm
muggah wrote:Helmet cam? This guy has gotten some great results wearing one in races - really cool footage IMO.toolonglegs wrote: I want a little device on my bars that I can stick my little camera in on a race and get some live in the peloton footage .
Thats seems a pretty good price for the set up...maybee one day
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby sogood » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:11 pm
Buy a Nikon D90 body and you'll be able to shoot HD video when mounted on top of your helmet. Straining your neck is not covered by your riders' insurance policy.toolonglegs wrote:Thats seems a pretty good price for the set up...maybee one daymuggah wrote:Helmet cam? This guy has gotten some great results wearing one in races - really cool footage IMO.
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:16 pm
Nah... i am a Canon man!.sogood wrote:Buy a Nikon D90 body and you'll be able to shoot HD video when mounted on top of your helmet. Straining your neck is not covered by your riders' insurance policy.toolonglegs wrote:Thats seems a pretty good price for the set up...maybee one daymuggah wrote:Helmet cam? This guy has gotten some great results wearing one in races - really cool footage IMO.
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