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The Q-Factor differs from road bikes to MTBs. That is the distance between your feet. On a MTB your Q-Factor distance is wider than on a road bike. You just can't have exactly the same set-up on a road bike and MTB. Because of the bigger Q-Factor on your MTB, your saddle will need to be slightly lower than what it is on your road bike.
Like saddles, each cyclist finds comfort in different brands/models of bib shorts. Value for money AND quality though, I'd recommend Vermarc - www.vermarc.co.za
Give us a clue: What track is this?
How much will it cost to build a velodrome? Anyone ever tried finding out? I reckon if there was a velodrome in the northern suburbs, there'd be plenty more people riding track and therefore a bigger pool from which to select provincial teams and administrators. I would definitely ride track again if there was a velodrome in the northern suburbs.
I'm no car expert, but when I was shopping around about 18 months ago, my mate, who is a car expert, told me the Ford/Mazda 2.5 Turbo Diesel Intercooled engines are the best in the bakkie category. So I took his advice and bought one.
But I reckon Toyota must make a damn good bakkie engine too. Seen some seriously old models still going strong!
How does Humble Pie taste, carbonfreak? 
Seriously, though, you're partially correct. Hunter definitely cruised the TT today. Losing 2min17 to the George on a 5.5km uphill isn't a true reflection of his ability. Interestingly, last year he was 1:25 down on George in the TT. Can he be the first rider to defend the Cycle Tour title since, well I don't know, probably Willie Engelbrecht back in 1990?
Sean Badenhorst2008-03-08 11:31:09
wayne's world
Barloworld and MTN beating the snot out of each other and letting someone else take the stage win.
Seems like the perfect summary! Appears to be lots of needle between those two teams.
Brilliant work again, Wayne!
I'm not trying to be 'otherwise'...but what bike is DG riding? Its not a Raliegh...
It's definitely a Raleigh, GreyOwl. More here:
The point I was making, Carbon Freak, was that DG can also ride and finish with the world's top riders at events other than Commonwealth Games and Tour de Langkawi.
Worth noting is that the winning break in 2006 went with 500m to go and the winning break in 2007 went with 9km to go. On a good day, it could be a South African in that break, but if a South African is not in the lead pack when that move goes...
Get with what programme?
rock
Sean, thats exactly what I mean - those 2 worlds results are amazing -
that race in brutal, but those results don't get the mainstream PR like
a 'win'
Yep, the 2007 especially so since DG wasn't on a European-based team and did all the preparation on his own in the rainy Cape Town winter... Check the finish time - 6h44m - long time to ride at just under 40kph...
Carbon Freak
Commonwealth Games medals get some credit but the Euro?s are not there?
and malaysia is at the beginning of the season when all the Europeans
are still coming out of winter training.
UCI World Road Champs 2006: Elite men's road race, 265.8km
Results
1 Paolo Bettini (Italy) 6.15.36 (42.476 km/h)
2 Erik Zabel (Germany)
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spain)
4 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spain) 0.02
5 Robbie McEwen (Australia)
6 Stuart O'Grady (Australia)
7 Uros Murn (Slovenia)
8 Alexandre Botcharov (Russian Federation)
9 Tom Boonen (Belgium)
10 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation)
11 Bernhard Eisel (Austria)
12 Nicki Sorensen (Denmark)
13 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway)
14 Martin Elmiger (Switzerland)
15 Freddie Rodriguez (United States Of America)
16 Karsten Kroon (Netherlands)
17 Marcus Ljungqvist (Sweden)
18 Rene Haselbacher (Austria)
19 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hungary)
20 Gerben L?wik (Netherlands)
21 Stefan Schumacher (Germany)
22 Steffen Wesemann (Switzerland)
23 Christophe Le Mevel (France)
24 Anthony Geslin (France)
25 Andrey Kashechkin (Kazakhstan)
26 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russian Federation)
27 Matija Kvasina (Croatia)
28 Michael Boogerd (Netherlands)
29 Frank Schleck (Luxembourg)
30 Moises Aldape Chavez (Mexico)
31 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
32 Gorazd Stangelj (Slovenia)
33 Nuno Ribeiro (Portugal)
34 Danilo Di Luca (Italy)
35 David Millar (Great Britain)
36 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spain)
37 Gr?gory Rast (Switzerland)
38 Luca Paolini (Italy)
39 David George (South Africa)
40 Cadel Evans (Australia)
41 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Portugal)
42 S?rgio Paulinho (Portugal)
43 Vladimir Karpets (Russian Federation)
44 Alexander Arekeev (Russian Federation)
45 Sylvain Chavanel (France)
UCI World Road Champs 2007: Elite men's road race, 267.4kmResults
1 Paolo Bettini (Italy) 6.44.43 (39.642 km/h)
2 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russian Federation)
3 Stefan Schumacher (Germany)
4 Fr?nk Schleck (Luxembourg)
5 Cadel Evans (Australia)
6 Davide Rebellin (Italy) 0.06
7 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spain) 0.08
8 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
9 Fabian Wegmann (Germany)
10 Martin Elmiger (Switzerland)
11 Thomas Dekker (Netherlands)
12 Michael Boogerd (Netherlands) 0.14
13 Bj?rn Leukemans (Belgium) 0.15
14 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spain) 0.49
15 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Belarus)
16 Alexandre Usov (Belarus)
17 Beat Zberg (Switzerland)
18 Erik Zabel (Germany)
19 Thor Hushovd (Norway)
20 Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)
21 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Brazil)
22 Matej Mugerli (Slovenia)
23 George Hincapie (United States Of America)
24 Marcus Ljungqvist (Sweden)
25 Chris S?rensen (Denmark)
26 Jurgen Van Goolen (Belgium)
27 Leonardo Duque (Colombia)
28 Rene Mandri (Estonia)
29 Gustav Larsson (Sweden)
30 Pierrick Fedrigo (France)
31 Thomas L?vkvist (Sweden)
32 Alexander Efimkin (Russian Federation)
33 Tomasz Marczynski (Poland)
34 Jan Valach (Slovakia)
35 Sebastian Langeveld (Netherlands)
36 Christian Vandevelde (United States Of America)
37 Nuno Ribeiro (Portugal)
38 Christian Pfannberger (Austria)
39 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Venezuela)
40 David George (South Africa)
41 Ludovic Turpin (France)
42 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway)
43 Vladimir Efimkin (Russian Federation)
44 Sergey Lagutin (Uzbekistan)
45 Mario Aerts (Belgium)
46 Vladimir Karpets (Russian Federation)
47 Denis Menchov (Russian Federation)
48 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Poland)
49 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spain)
A few Europeans well past their winter training in this lot...
Van Ruitenbeek sounds Belgian. Assume he stayed clear to win.
Race finished 20min ago. Didn't come back together. A rider on the Belgian national team won. Sorry, no name from my contact.
Great info bigcheeze, but it would be even greater if you could try and get us time splits too.
Apparently there will only be 4 laps of Hellshoogte and not 5 as planned. Bet the climbers are livid!
tubed, Corti vs Fullard. When you put it like that, it becomes evident how big the gap is between Barloworld and MTN Energade in the big picture.
As nice a guy as Jacques is, he's well down the learning curve compared to Corti...
Epic is a big goal for MTN Energade's two teams. Time for a SA team to get on that final podium!
David's hillclimb stage history:
Won it 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007. Set the record of 12min00sec in 2002.
tubed, Jacques Fullard is actually the MTN Energade DS. Doug is seldom in the car at races.
Interestingly, Mannie is the only cyclist to have ridden (and finished) every single one of the 16 Giros del Capo. The guy is a legend!
More awesome pics! Thanks Wayne. Must have been hot under that helmet on the melting tar today! Boy are we glad you didn't become a golf photographer!
Oh. Of course. Knowing the high proactivity levels of the Raleigh crowd, I'm sure it will.
Back ache
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Okay, I could offer some of my 'from the saddle experience' advice here, but reckon you are most likely going to find an answer to any cycling related set-up and/or injury question on cyclingnews.com. Here is the link the current Fitness Q&A and at the bottom of the page you can search their archives which stretch over the last few years and which include just about every single cycling ache or ailment ever experienced.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/fitness/?id=2008/letters03-25