Is it really 95% the Rider and 5% the Bike...

[Cuchilo]

2 hours a week expended to save two minutes on a ten mile TT sounds like a very inefficient use of time

I just wish it was that easy .

 

[Dan B]

Hmm good point. In which case, Froome and Wiggins must still be several hundred hours down on their TdF wins...

On the bright side though they probably don't have to pay for their own bikes

 

[Citius]

On the bright side though they probably don't have to pay for their own bikes

Exactly, so let's offset their training time against the money they save by not having to purchase their own kit and come up with a meaningless, random figure.

 

[Dan B]

Exactly, so let's offset their training time against the money they save by not having to purchase their own kit and come up with a meaningless, random figure.

7

 

[ayceejay]

Yep - next time I enter a race for veteran Hirondelles, I'll definitely make sure I'm on my carbon jobbie....

If that is what passes as logic in your book no wonder you have a hard time with common sense.
You don't live under a bridge do you?

 

[Citius]

If that is what passes as logic in your book no wonder you have a hard time with common sense.
You don't live under a bridge do you?

I tend not to take anything you write seriously and so I respond accordingly. That doesn't make me a troll though. No offence like.

 

[bpsmith]

 

[ayceejay]

I write:
Tell me professor how precise do you find words like assume: might: and could?
As you have no idea how fit anyone else is it is perhaps prudent to assume that they are at least as fit as you
and so any advantage the bike may offer is worth considering surely?
and you reply:
Yep - next time I enter a race for veteran Hirondelles, I'll definitely make sure I'm on my carbon jobbie....

and this nonsense is responding accordingly? I think the jobbie part is right though
You need help brother.

 

[Citius]

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You actually spent time making that - you poor fecker.

 

[Citius]

I write:
Tell me professor how precise do you find words like assume: might: and could?
As you have no idea how fit anyone else is it is perhaps prudent to assume that they are at least as fit as you
and so any advantage the bike may offer is worth considering surely?
and you reply:
Yep - next time I enter a race for veteran Hirondelles, I'll definitely make sure I'm on my carbon jobbie....

and this nonsense is responding accordingly? I think the jobbie part is right though
You need help brother.

Dude (can I call you dude?) - I'm taking the piss out of you. Because you make it so easy.

 

[Citius]

So far the thread has gone like this:

Someone posts comparison betweem 100 year old bike and new bike - claims this is evidence that bikes make a difference
Same person gets thoroughly lampooned and destroyed for it.
Other indignant types then join in - and also get destroyed.
Thread then descends further into farce.
Indignant types continue to act in indignant way.

Massive laughs all round...

 

[screenman]

This forum is getting so full of personal attacks.

 

[bpsmith]

You actually spent time making that - you poor fecker.

Nope. Wouldn't bother.

I used your friend, Google, and it was so random I had to post.

Earned me a trophy too! What's even more funny is the pun in the trophy name!

 

[Citius]

Earned me a trophy too! What's even more funny is the pun in the trophy name!

You must be very proud. I'm welling up....actually I'm not - I'm still laughing..

Anyway, I'm off to watch X-Factor now. Apparently, some of them on there are even more deluded than you are...

 

[Tin Pot]

Jeez. What a thread.

I recommend you all go and watch Hand of God on Amazon Prime instead.

I just finished the series, it's good.