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• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 2 hours, 56 minutes

  

  For the shouting Dane, I think he thought it was the 4th Brit getting in his way or something. Why else would there be a single rider getting in his way and also with such a difference in speed. I do agree though he needs to keep his composure. But all in all, they caught the other team in the pursuit, so rightfully finalists.

  It looks like the Dane has now admitted he knew it was the 3rd GB rider ahead, he just didn't know how far ahead he was. Which suggests he knew in advance somebody was there. And that his team mates avoided the crash suggests they all knew, as they rode past because they were looking up, not down. Essentially, the mis judgement was about how slow the GB rider was going coupled with the Dane not looking ahead.

  Denmark's Frederik Rodenberg Madsen has explained why he ploughed into Great Britain's Charlie Tanfield during the Olympics team pursuit.
  "I was so tired at that point I didn't know if he was 10 or 20 metres away from me"

  "I knew that we were getting closer to them, and half-lap before I hit Charlie I saw him and then suddenly he was much closer than I knew."

  "I hope Charlie is okay. It's awful that this happened in an Olympic semi-final."

• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 3 hours, 38 minutes

  

  There was a sprint finish at the end of a 10km swim in the sea after 2hrs. A fucking sprint finish. Swimming. In the sea!

• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 4 hours, 55 minutes

  

  The 10km open water swim on now is both the stuff of nightmares and awe inspiring. I never knew swimmers had feed stations! Eating while swimming! Mind blown.

• Gouging of spd cleats

  in Bikes & Bits • 15 hours, 27 minutes

  

  I'm sure all of my cleats come with a little piece of rubber/plastic to put between the cleat and the shoe. I've a bag of them somewhere. At least I think I do?

• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 1 day, 13 hours

  

  Alas, no Eurosport. And the BBC coverage has some, but skips the last couple of hours.

• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 1 day, 13 hours

  

  Hero. Thank you.

• Tokyo Olympics 2021

  in General • 1 day, 13 hours

  

  Is there any place to watch all the track events today? I can't seem to find it at all on the BBC coverage for today.

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 12 hours

  

  If you get to a small airport, you can ask if you can photograph your bike as it goes through the x-ray machine!

  Make sure you print out the airlines baggage regulations and take a tape measure. Check-in can be awkward and sometimes its easier just to measure for them. My bike bags were inside the normal suitcase dimensions and didn't cost anything extra. I vote for soft bags.

  

• Tool library / tool exchange. Post what you got and where you are

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 6 days, 2 hours

  

  I think I have the park tools versions of this, the 3.2mm for Rolf wheels...

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  We've always called them "switchers"...