cavebear2 wrote:* You consider the possibility of breaking the Australian Audax Oppy 24hr trial team record distance of 780km with a small group of fellow riders.
You know you have lost perspective when...
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- George Bernard Shaw.
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Re: You know you have lost perspective when...
Postby LittleWheelsandBig » Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:08 pm
The Australian record is 770 km in 1993, the world record is 778 km by the French a couple of years later.cavebear2 wrote: * You consider the possibility of breaking the Australian Audax Oppy 24hr trial team record distance of 780km with a small group of fellow riders.
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Re: You know you have lost perspective when...
Postby cavebear2 » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:19 pm
OK! - our goal just got so much easier! Then again, we may as well stay with our original goal and break the world record.LittleWheelsandBig wrote:The Australian record is 770 km in 1993, the world record is 778 km by the French a couple of years later.cavebear2 wrote: * You consider the possibility of breaking the Australian Audax Oppy 24hr trial team record distance of 780km with a small group of fellow riders.
It's easy to say isn't it?
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Re: You know you have lost perspective when...
Postby casual_cyclist » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:35 pm
Are you for real? If you rode for 24 hours with no breaks at 30km/h you would only cover 720km.cavebear2 wrote:OK! - our goal just got so much easier! Then again, we may as well stay with our original goal and break the world record.LittleWheelsandBig wrote:The Australian record is 770 km in 1993, the world record is 778 km by the French a couple of years later.cavebear2 wrote: * You consider the possibility of breaking the Australian Audax Oppy 24hr trial team record distance of 780km with a small group of fellow riders.
It's easy to say isn't it?
You have lost perspective when you consider breaking that record!
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Postby cavebear2 » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:52 pm
Yes it would seem to be a bit difficult, perhaps I'm just "Walter Mittying"? I've worked out that I could easily cover 550 kms without drafting in 24 hrs based on the time that it took me to complete 443 kms last September. Therefore extrapolating that to a 40% (very generous ) efficiency with drafting in a team, we should be able to manage 770kms.casual_cyclist wrote:Are you for real? If you rode for 24 hours with no breaks at 30km/h you would only cover 720km.
You have lost perspective when you consider breaking that record!
- If the course is flat.
- If the winds are favourable.
- If the team rides very cohesively. (high skill levels & good communication)
- If all riders are well matched.
- If all riders are suitably prepared.
- If there are no mechanical faults.
- If there are no rider health issues.
On second thoughts perhaps the odds seem better with Lotto.
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Re: You know you have lost perspective when...
Postby miyata84 » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:43 pm
....when you have a clothes drawer just for jerseys.....
....when you can mix and match jerseys with gloves....( I think I need help on this!)
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Postby bepboy » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:22 pm
And yes, the bike was I ok - Im still a bit sore
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Postby casual_cyclist » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:55 pm
Glad you are ok. (and the bike )bepboy wrote:..... you get knocked off your bike and when you hit the deck, through the blinding pain your first thought is.."is the bike ok????" was me on Sunday 28th.
And yes, the bike was I ok - Im still a bit sore
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....when your partner turns up to the hospita, leans over you and says "I bet you are glad you weren't on the Pegoretti."
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Re: You know you have lost perspective when...
Postby LittleWheelsandBig » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:43 pm
I've done just over 600 km in an English 24 hr time trial but have my doubts that I could do much over 700 km even with drafting. That is a long way to stay in an aero tuck and very few teams (three or four?) have ever gone past 700 km. The riders' bad patches usually aren't syncronised, so the team loses a little ground to the schedule each time. I've ridden some distance with one of the Australian record holders and he was seriously fast.cavebear2 wrote: Yes it would seem to be a bit difficult, perhaps I'm just "Walter Mittying"? I've worked out that I could easily cover 550 kms without drafting in 24 hrs based on the time that it took me to complete 443 kms last September. Therefore extrapolating that to a 40% (very generous ) efficiency with drafting in a team, we should be able to manage 770kms.
- If the course is flat.
- If the winds are favourable.
- If the team rides very cohesively. (high skill levels & good communication)
- If all riders are well matched.
- If all riders are suitably prepared.
- If there are no mechanical faults.
- If there are no rider health issues.
On second thoughts perhaps the odds seem better with Lotto.
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Postby twizzle » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:05 pm
Really weird part - first day I drove to work after deciding I had to stop riding, and I nearly had four accidents in a 9km drive, not one of them my fault. The third one involved a bus swerving around me because he left his braking too late in the wet and was going to pancake me into the back of the bus in front! And they say cycling is dangerous.
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Postby casual_cyclist » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:11 pm
And you finish said generally utterly miserable ride and a few hours later can only remember the parts you enjoyedcasual_cyclist wrote:its 5:30 AM, pitch black, freezing cold, you have a busted knee and you are awake because you are planning a ride this morning... and you're looking forward to it
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Starfesh wrote:You know you have lost perspective when your wife walks into the study and you Alt+tab up a porn site as you don't want her to know you are looking at bikes again!
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