 27th March 2012 | #55 |
 | This looks like a fantastic way to market directly to niche consumers and raise brand awareness all while diversifying a company's promotional mix and hopefully cement a brand-image transfer from the cycling event into the consumer's mind. Really looking forward to this. What am I buying again? |
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| 27th March 2012 | #61 |
 | There are a few "riders eye" videos of road racing at Hillingdon on Youtube, you may wish to note exactly what happens when a rider clips his pedal on a corner and practise your landings ;) Having ridden there for the first time weekend just past it's definitely possible to go around there smoothly barely using brakes at all, but that was with a group who had a vague concept of holding your line through corners and not half-wheeling. |
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| 27th March 2012 | #68 | |
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Just as a reminder of what £20 could get you on the same weekend in the Isle of Wight: - Entry to the randonee, which is a proper 100k ride and everything (£0). - Two nights in a tipi (£17) - A pint (£3) | |
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| 28th March 2012 | #85 | |
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Assuming their is a pace of about 24mph for the duration then that's (24 x 0.333) + (3 x 0.96) = 10.872 miles for the first race and (24 x 0.5) + (5 x 0.96) = 16.8 miles for the final race. Yikes! | |
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| 28th March 2012 | #87 |
| | Like some said above - it's all about your legs. I ride 50/14 on the road and do weight training (I'm not a God though... yet!). But yes, I think I will gear down for this even if it's just for the psychological impact of pushing a smaller gear. However, the bigger the gear the less revolutions you'll be doing on the corners so less chance of pedal strike. Just something to think about! |
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| 28th March 2012 | #90 | ||
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I'd imagine most fixed crits are done on flat roads with wideish sweeping bends ? Edit :- Quote:
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| 28th March 2012 | #91 |
| | I'm pretty sure this qualifies as flat? Only 12 ft of rise and fall over 0.96 miles. Also, all the corners seem to be on 'inclines' so I assume that they would be fractionally slower anyway. I've seen some footage of people riding round this circuit and the corners don't seem insanely sharp. But I do still feel nervous about the prospect of riding round them at a high speed. That said, I've never been on the course but will do this weekend - or very soon. Will report back then. |
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| 28th March 2012 | #92 |
| | Red Hook is on completely flat course in NYC docks and they were recommending 92.5 but their course has more straight than Hillingdon but much tighter corners more like a hot dog crit. |
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| 28th March 2012 | #94 |
 | http://app.strava.com/segments/630236 59mph average? Surely that's a GPS fail, but there seem to be a few others right behind him. I guess the 24mph average ones are more likely to be the standard we are aiming for. |
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| 28th March 2012 | #96 |
| | Here's a Strava link for the Cat 4 (noobs) race on Saturday, pace droppped below 20mph for about 8 seconds in a 40 minute race averaged just under 26mph. *edit* the Strava segment lap times posted further up and the average speeds don't link up at all as the segment is only 1.3km for some reason not the 1.6km it actually is. So times are right but speeds wrong Last edited by adoubletap; 28th March 2012 at 12:01. |
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