@chdot my boyfriend has tubs on his TT bike. Go onto the triathlon forums and you can have a good old debate about tubs vs clinchers. Whether you want to describe triathletes as 'normal' is a different question entirely...
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How many 'normal' amateurs still ride tubs?
Plenty. Main reason is that deep-rim carbon wheels about half the price tubs vs. clinchers. Worth the faff of the tubular tyre to save a lot of money. I've got a pair for the yet-completed TT bike infact.
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"Whether you want to describe triathletes as 'normal' is a different question entirely"Whether I want to "have a good old debate about tubs vs clinchers" is a different question entirely!!
(But thanks for the info.)
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@baldcyclist Actually I'm not to sure increased weight would be a problem, aren't all the bikes quite a bit under the legal weight anyway? The teams usually have to add weight to the bikes to make them legal, so heavier tubes not likely to be an issue
I think the logic here is to keep the rim and tyre as light as is possible, worth shaving off a gram or 2 in some people's eyes to have lighter wheels for accellerating / climbing.
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"Main reason is that deep-rim carbon wheels about half the price tubs vs. clinchers"
That makes sense (in a situation where tubs still 'rule').
Obviously this is another world to me...
So I'm still surprised that tubs didn't become 'obsolete' in the changing face of fashion/technology.
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"I think the logic here is to keep the rim and tyre as light as is possible, worth shaving off a gram or 2 in some people's eyes to have lighter wheels for accellerating / climbing."
All about "revolving weight".
One reason for small wheels...
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One reason for small wheels...
Insert picture of Tom Simpson on a Moulton here. Ok then.
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"additional weight at the rims might make them split-secondly slower to accelerate"
Split-seconds count when you're jumping off the lights!!
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Over here in the SRD household, we're getting kinda into this tdf thing. the adverts are appalling though. we now realise how much we watch the beeb, and channel 4 on catchup (which cuts out most of the adverts). if only itv did the same.
Mr Bradley Wiggins' resemblance to a certain forum poster stiff gets lots of amused chuckles, but we're also rather taken with 'Bramley Wiggins' as a nom d'forum for our wee lad ;)
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It's worse when you watch the live coverage. Because it's daytime on a channel way down at the low rent end of the spectrum it's all ambulance chasing lawyers and cheap loan companies... quite a window on what the average daytime tv viewer is assumed to be in need of
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agreed. I couldn't resist watching some of the live coverage over a late lunch...
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You must hit the mute button when the adverts come on. The ITV4 coverage has grown into an excellent show over the years.
I had letter published in guardian this week (maybe only electric version) linking earlier story where chris hoy claimed he shaves his legs to reduce times. I put forward the proposition that if this was true ( rather than injury cleaning or just perversion) then someone shOuld have a word with Bradley about his ridiculous sideburns, the drag they cause must slow him down markedly
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No, you made it to the paper version! Was chuckling over it just yesterday...
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Tink we burned the paper on the fire. It was intended for the Saturday magazine as that was where the original Hoy article about leg shaving appeared.
Keith Flett look out :-)
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"...claimed he shaves his legs to reduce times. I put forward the proposition that if this was true ( rather than injury cleaning or just perversion)..."
Why would shaving his legs be a perversion any more or less than shaving (or not) his face? Hair is hair surely and it's up to him whether to keep it long, short or missing surely?
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"I decided to check out this Obree character, of whom I had never heard. "
Guardian TdF blog!
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Just posted that onto the Cycling Weekly feed (the Guardian crashes my computer, but it works on a colleague's machine).
Very very strange...
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Guariadan website is full of advertising / datamining scripts and applets that no doubt trouble corporate web browsers (asssume your stuck on earlier editions of IE). Viewing the site with adblock lifts the lid on how much junk there is in under the surface.
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Just watched the overhead view of Mark Cavendish sprinting past the would be stage winners... what a speed difference :-o just awesome!
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Phil Liggett (@PhilLiggett)
21/07/2012 10:22
Check out this link to hear Dan lloyd on the TT course.http://www.youtube.com/user/IGMarketsCycling
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British Cycling (@BritishCycling)
21/07/2012 10:21
Coverage starts at 2pm on ITV 1 or 12.30pm on British Eurosport, you can also follow @TeamSky for live updates #allezwiggo"
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A taste of what might be to come if cycling stays bigger than football.
"Mr. Wiggins"??! -
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Oh dear - People should seriously just keep this sort of thing off twitter. The guys must be so flippin embarrassed by it.
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That second one down is just classic.
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jersey available here from philosophy football
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