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Wheels or course - what to blame
I read Simoni's comments below, and I can't figure out whether the blame
falls on bad choices of wheels or something that was totally invisible to me on the circuit course in Milan. Simoni, another Giro overall winner, did not backpedal. "We can't accept everything without doing something about it," he maintained. "Fourteen riders broke their wheels on the first lap [of the Milan circuit]. We are at the Tour of Italy, not in Paris-Roubaix. We all agreed [to neutralize the stage]." Speed bumps are part of street topography, and have become even more common. No one got hooked into the tramway rails, so far as I know. Paris-Roubaix had a healthy number of carbon fibre wheels, and so did other spring classics. Anyone know which wheels broke and why? -- Sandy Verneuil-sur-Seine ******* La vie, c'est comme une bicyclette, il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l'équilibre. -- Einstein, A. |
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Wheels or course - what to blame
On May 19, 4:36*pm, "Sandy" wrote:
I read Simoni's comments below, and I can't figure out whether the blame falls on bad choices of wheels or something that was totally invisible to me on the circuit course in Milan. Simoni, another Giro overall winner, did not backpedal. "We can't accept everything without doing something about it," he maintained. "Fourteen riders broke their wheels on the first lap [of the Milan circuit]. We are at the Tour of Italy, not in Paris-Roubaix. We all agreed [to neutralize the stage]." Speed bumps are part of street topography, and have become even more common. No one got hooked into the tramway rails, so far as I know. *Paris-Roubaix had a healthy number of carbon fibre wheels, and so did other spring classics. *Anyone know which wheels broke and why? -- Sandy Verneuil-sur-Seine ******* La vie, c'est comme une bicyclette, il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l'équilibre. -- *Einstein, A. They whine like this stage was some sort of surprise to them all. The route, the streets, the conditions. Why not a little pre-race planning in both tactics and equipment..like other races. |
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Wheels or course - what to blame
On May 20, 8:24*am, "P. Chisholm" wrote:
They whine like this stage was some sort of surprise to them all. The route, the streets, the conditions. Why not a little pre-race planning in both tactics and equipment..like other races. What sort of pre-race planning do you have for traffic on the course? "Okay, boys, avoid the 2 ton metal things that move." Rail tracks in the road on corners? "Don't get your wheels stuck." Maybe because there isn't a strong rider's union and, as a group, the course was never discussed by the people that actually have to ride it. Any bitches about the course ahead of time might have been downplayed or diffused by Ommegang (I know that's not the Giro director's name, but it's great beer). R |
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