I vote for Preston Pt Road, with a little more caution. It gets us off the main road, is a known route and allows for all of everyone’s (note i don’t subscribe mysyelf, but hey) strava data to go back to normal. I know the Thursday group have reverted a few times of recent without […]

Farrar

I thought we were all going to wear all-white skinsuits with matching scarves!?!?!

That’s it i’m out!!!!!

Cheers for doing the write up Ryan, A couple of footnotes – bits of Twiggy’s haul trucks make for interesting obstacles; Diesel Nick seemed to have filled up with petrol, judging by the sounds coming out of him; Red lights are still red lights when a semi runs them and Kimbo’s coffee-shop line form far-far-far […]

To be honest Mark, i believed that the term ‘Scotch’ in place of ‘Scottish’ was almost taken as an insult (akin to racism?)..???

With “Bolt On” (should that be pluralised), “La Chihuahua”, “Quadzilla”, Iain (Iiiiiiiaiin), you’re in dire need of a nick name. Unfortunately, as “The Gay Cowboy” – nee “Capt. Poser” has learnt the hard way, it must be earnt, and not chosen, 3D may just be the beginning, but we all may not be able to […]

Vive le écharpe!!!

Well done Davina, brilliant work, and good luck for tomorrow’s (today’s?) race. Enjoy the beer and frites.

Oh, and (way) off topic Ryan, agreed Fabian is a machine, but Chavanel was awesome, i’m sorry but no rational argument can be made otherwise.

Great, now i look the fool….

Umm, how many Thursday rides did you clock this morning :)?

Toby, your post last week was definately valid and certainly the catalyst required to get a decent roll through going, back like the old days really, probably more coherent.

@Ryan – You just don’t like people coming past you (Also please see the discusson between the pot and the kettle as per my prior). I’m not sure if we need to come up with a ‘solution’ as such, perhaps just a re-capping at the start of the ride – Lets keep the pace controlled […]

@Pete – The power profiles must look great:
Warm-up: 10 seconds @ 150W – that’ll do
Roll through: 500W – yay….

Actually scratch that last comment. I guess what i was trying to point out was that the last 5 or 10 kms of the faster rides are generally considered a bit ‘open slather’ which is cool, it’s just that it seems some prefer to sit in so that they are fresh for the final 5 […]

I love those little guys. Things have been getting a little lax on the roll-through front, and whilst this is somewhat a case of pot-kettle-black a few observations: – Rolling through smoothly and consistently @ 55+kph, with little to no warm up ain’t going to happen, full stop. – There seems alot of riders willing […]

….umm agreed. Don’t worry too much Toby, I’ll break out (/invent) the old “SPR Drink Bottle Slingshot” (patent pending) especially for the job. Also, i tend to think we should hire a truck-load of gym mats for the inevitable carnage which shall ensue! I do distinctly remember racing through feed zones at 50+km/hr on prior […]

Oh, and if you find out where to position oneself, please let me know, as i’m still well into the ‘trial and error (much more error that success)’ phase.

Zack, you said it in the first sentence – National championships. The local club crit isn’t the nationals. Who would know where to position themselves in a race? Get racing and find out through trial and error. Rolling through, riding in a bunch, sitting on wheels, most definately (and most obviously) best learnt NOT in […]