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[AAAC 76C]

Your downhill speed is much better than mine, I could only gain on you slowly if I pedalled demonically.

And I was braking at times and then I stopped altogether and you flew past then I was the one pedaling like a demon!

 

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And I was braking at times and then I stopped altogether and you flew past then I was the one pedaling like a demon!

How depressing and sad to hear my pace man was using his brakes! I am at present wiping away tears from my iPad screen.

 

[AAAC 76C]

Sounds scary.
But it didn't seem to affect you racing today. You were back to your old self, and then anyone challenging you better have something special to pull out of the bag .

Lars, what is your actual cadence going downhill on this one? I had a 52/11 going at 100 to 105 RPM and I was having a real problem making any difference to my speed and or power.
For example at km 18.6:
Me - 68.9 kph/105 rpm/ 177.8 watts You - 71.2kph/111 rpm/ 180 watts Good match
At km 18.4:
Me - 68.8 kph/ 102 rpm/ 180.2 watts You - 71.3 kph/ 133 rpm/ 271 watts
Are you realy pulsing your downhill efforts like this because for me its the high cadence 'low effort' runs like this that really get the heart going, a bit like being on the rollers.
My average HR for the 5 pm was 159 with a max of 169 which is pushing the limit for me.
But for the second run where I did very little work on the downhills but was 2:30 slower than the first it was 146 average and 157 max, a whole world of difference.
Power was 296 vs 236 but its real hard to get good watts on a downhill like this.

 

[AAAC 76C]

How depressing and sad to hear my pace man was using his brakes! I am at present wiping away tears from my iPad screen.

The braking didn't work too well until the 'machine' decided I must have given up then it just stopped dead all of a sudden so don't be too concerned.

PS: Don't let Lars know I was watching the end of todays Paris/Nice Stage for the first ten minutes of the 5pm race in a pop-up window. I'd been watching it for an hour and the best bits were at the end so i didn't want to miss them live.
It was good to see Geraint Thomas ride himself into Yellow ahead of the likes of Contador and Ritchie Port.
As usual it was down to the team as well, Roche put in a stunning turn on the front and Henao was there at the end when 'G' needed him. Not to mention Ben Swift, who was still in the mix on the final climb, Ian Boswell and the Machine namely Ian Stanard who did a lot of the early running.

 

[LBHIFI]

Bad luck!
That is one of the down sides of riding real bikes in real places.

Yeah, my collar bone crash was culmination of a crash spree. The guy who fixed my carbon bikes actually gave me a discount because of my frequent return.

 

[LBHIFI]

Lars, what is your actual cadence going downhill on this one? I had a 52/11 going at 100 to 105 RPM and I was having a real problem making any difference to my speed and or power.
For example at km 18.6:
Me - 68.9 kph/105 rpm/ 177.8 watts You - 71.2kph/111 rpm/ 180 watts Good match
At km 18.4:
Me - 68.8 kph/ 102 rpm/ 180.2 watts You - 71.3 kph/ 133 rpm/ 271 watts
Are you realy pulsing your downhill efforts like this because for me its the high cadence 'low effort' runs like this that really get the heart going, a bit like being on the rollers.
My average HR for the 5 pm was 159 with a max of 169 which is pushing the limit for me.
But for the second run where I did very little work on the downhills but was 2:30 slower than the first it was 146 average and 157 max, a whole world of difference.
Power was 296 vs 236 but its real hard to get good watts on a downhill like this.

AAAC, if you have followed this thread you will know that I have a problem accelerating to more than 70 kph, and that is right around the speed I will get freewheeling at a 7% decline. So anytime I see a decline less than 7 % I will try to put enough power on to reach 70 kph. With a compact crank and -6 % I'm doing crazy rpm's to reach 70 kph, often well beyond 300 watts downhill.

 

[AAAC 76C]

AAAC, if you have followed this thread you will know that I have a problem accelerating to more than 70 kph, and that is right around the speed I will get freewheeling at a 7% decline. So anytime I see a decline less than 7 % I will try to put enough power on to reach 70 kph. With a compact crank and -6 % I'm doing crazy rpm's to reach 70 kph, often well beyond 300 watts downhill.

Thanks for the insight. With my Classic I was able to 'rev it up' and put down power downhill. Normally I would not bother too much because the gains are not worth the effort but in a stage like this with so much downhill you have no choice. As I don't appear to get any drafting from anyone now I does make going down hard work.
I may well have to cut my losses and actually buy a new Turbo instead of 'making one' my self.

 

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mightily miffed today, enjoying a cracking velodrome session when I found myself behind the numpty of the group. He managed to clip the rider in front of him, fell of in front of me at just about the steepest part. I hit him or his bike as its directly in front of me, over the bars and land on my left shoulder. X-rays confirm a broken collarbone, Mallorca is three weeks away, arrrggghhh. The drive home was none too easy either. At least I can spin the legs up on the turbo, but I won't be competing or doing any routes that require me to change up or down on the front.

Hard luck @kipster get well soon

 

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Is anyone else waiting with bated breath to see what medical impossibilities Bill's new HRM reveals?

 

[BILL S]

Is anyone else waiting with bated breath to see what medical impossibilities Bill's new HRM reveals?

Well it's here with me now so I'll be testing it tomorrow. I'm going to guess that the handicap race on Tuesday will show me at 180. Not quite a medical impossibility but much higher than that would be quite unusual for my age.

 

[Soarerv8]

I reckon that chain gang route would make a very interesting handicap race. You skinny chaps would really have to pedal like the clappers on the last stretch if you hadn't caught us big fellas by then.

 

[BILL S]

I reckon that chain gang route would make a very interesting handicap race. You skinny chaps would really have to pedal like the clappers on the last stretch if you hadn't caught us big fellas by then.

I would freewheel all the way down. On the first one

 

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Get well soon Kip. Hope it all knits together quickly for you.

The poor guy's broken his collar bone Rick - that emoji you've used is gonna REALLY hurt!

 

[Soarerv8]

I would freewheel all the way down. On the first one

Times have already been set........

 

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Times have already been set........

Ha Bill.....BUSTED!

Can't see my time changing drastically, not without engines, drugs or computer hacking.