Is this new TT helmet a step too far?
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a.twiddler
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They are very brave, and so relaxed about it too. Mind you, from some angles they look like they're doing about 100mph standing still, so maybe that's the point, a psychological advantage which outweighs the risk of looking like a prat the rest of the time.
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Cycleops
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And what about in the urinals?
Salad Dodger
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It baffles me why the UCI allows different helmets for time trials at all. What if they insisted that a rider wears only one style of helmet throughout the whole of a competition......
3 or 4 speed hubs?😁
No bottle of wine?🍷
mjr
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The TT specialists would be using vision-impairing helmets on all stages. The effect on a bunch sprint early lead out doesn't bear thinking about.
I like Skol
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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Won't somebody please think of the sponsors?!?
Drago
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They should wear flat caps and mk8 goggles like real gentlemen.
ebikeerwidnes
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grldtnr
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Wearing 'Go faster' gear seems totally pointless to me, it's not ascribing to the corithianan values of the Olympics, , form over function you might say.
Mind you, in modern Olympic sport, technical advantage is sought ot over pure physical form.
That's to say that at top level sport, nobody appears to be just be themselves against the tape.
I don't even wear a cycle helmet for leisure cycling,it is more about 'fashion' rather asthetics, I do not believe a bowl shape of polystyrene is ever going to do much for you in an accident.
Mind you, in modern Olympic sport, technical advantage is sought ot over pure physical form.
That's to say that at top level sport, nobody appears to be just be themselves against the tape.
I don't even wear a cycle helmet for leisure cycling,it is more about 'fashion' rather asthetics, I do not believe a bowl shape of polystyrene is ever going to do much for you in an accident.
a.twiddler
Veteran
The fact that they are for streamlining, not protection, must surely have someone treading the grapes of wrath already in the helmet thread! (I'm keeping well out of that one).
