shawnvan

Just saw earlier posts...

If you wanted to claim directly from the driver you would need to hire a lawyer anyway. Might be worth taking a chance and get your wife to write a letter of demand to the driver - you never know, he/she might be stupid and panic and pay... otherwise if he/she takes advise they will just tell you to claim from RAF. No real harm giving it a try...

It's coming ... SRAM has already released a Force 1x11 group for CX... I'm going to try a 1x10 setup on my road bike for a while as an experiment - 53 chainring with 11-32 casette.

Good race for your first one back - easy swim and run. The bike is tough - two loops of 10km uphill, 10km downhill. The SS will be very hard on the legs, but if you are a strong cyclist should be manageable - you can recover a bit on the last 10km downhill back before the run.

FD = Yes.RD = No.

Sorry for being pinickity, but - Clamp-on = round tube clamp style Braze-on = bolt tab, always used on aero frames...

On second thought, looking at the specs again, for a similar price definitly go with the Cannondale. 11sp Ultegra over 10sp 105 is a no-brainer...

Anyone know where / when photos will be put up?

Go for a ride every time you feel like a cigarette!

If i had a spare U$4,000 lying around I would get this baby... http://www.falcobike...uct?key=falco_v

Difficult choice - they are both great. Will they both fit you properly? Can't comment on the latest P2, but I currently own a 2011 Slice (the Hi-Mod frame - same frame mold, just the more expensive / lighter carbon lay-up) and I love it. It is easy to maintain (do my own maintenance), super light and aero. The Slice does however have better components? Ultegra/Vision vs 105/FSA brakes on the P2... Cannondale only use a Vision crank as Shimano refuse to make a BB30 bottom bracket. Would say the Vision crank is probably slightly better than the FSA on the P2. The Slice frame is however starting to get a little long in the tooth, compared to the new P2 with its new head tube shaping, top-tube internal cable routing, etc. I might be inclined to go with the P2 as it just *looks* more modern, and if I was planning on upgrading components in the longer term. However, I've decided that I will only upgrade from my Slice when I start beating Chrissie's bike times on her Slice

Oh right - were you one of the "sprint finish" chaps?

7th - 5h12 I was the dumbass that also fell at a water station and did the rest of the race with sweat marinading my roasties... Lost about 5 minutes on the bike with all the dropped chains and the fall.

Yep, I got 2185m for the swim, including the portage and run to transition, so about 2100 actual swimming... My bloody chain kept dropping off my chainring in 10th gear for some unknown reason, so had to go up Sugarbush in 9th (23 tooth). Not ideal... Awesome race otherwise, finished top-10 overall

LOL. Don't give the defence team ideas. Next thing the screams heard by the neighbours were Oscar applying merthyalate to his road rash at 3am...

Thanks guys... I basically have two deeper wounds that are wet. One on the palm of my hand and one on the back of my shoulder. Have applied bacroban and dressed both. Fortunately this is a rest/recovery week for me, so will probably just not swim this week. and make sure those are healed nicely. The other rash on my elbow is basically dried out already so should heal quickly - not as extensive as Flowta!

Thanks - using that stuff will result in Audilble Anarchy! Makes grown men cry...

Hi all Did a search on the Hub but couldn't find anything... Came off my bike yesterday at the Buffelspoort Triathlon (silly moment not concentrating going through an aid station). Was able to carry on and finished strong after checking nothing serious, but have some nice road rash to show for it... Got it cleaned up and dressed by medics after the race. Most of the abrasions aren't deep and are dried out already, but there are a few deeper abrasions that are still "wet". Been cleaning everything carefully with anti-septic and dressing them. Any recomendations on a "cure" or home remedies to help road rash heal well and quickly? Ps, doing Ironman in April so don't want to spend too long out the pool, but want to make sure everything is healed and won't get infected first...

Pro = probably would have pulled out if he couldn't it fix it himself and support vehicle didn't show up within ~30 minuntes... AG = sit on side of road sctaching head until another AG stops to help! People also forget that in IM a lot of AGers (esp back of field) are just in it to finish and will help each. Some kind souls will stop and ask if they can help...

Nice post Red Zone. However, I don't agree fully. Ironman is meant to be hard! And meachnicals are just one of the many, many challenges people will face on the day. I think a lot of people are too reliant on things going perfectly and on things that are out of their control, and they fail to embrace challenges and change their race plan which things don't go 100%. A lot of things in Ironman are completely out of peoples' control. Like the weather in 2012. A LOT of people had their races ruined because of the weather and did not finish, but a LOT of those same non-finishers were back in 2013. Gastro issues are another thing, no matter how much you "train" your gut. Serious mechanicals are out of my control, but if I have one I do not expect a crew to help me finish the race. I will just change plan, try to deal with it McGyver style and do my damndest to get back to T2 any way possible. If my goal time is blown, so be it. And if its so serious that I can't finish, well that will just suck balls but its not the end of the world and I will be on the finish line cheering all the others that overcame their own challenges on the day. If I recall correctly one of the pros last year had a puncture ~10km from the end of the bike leg. There was no support so he just ran his bike in for 10km and carried on with marathon. He still finished in like under 10hours or something rediculous. That is Ironman! Also, I think that the capacity to have a support crew that can actually deal with "serious" mechanical issues is very limited. They might be able to carry spare chains, cables, bolts etc, and maybe some spokes which are standard (can you even fix a spoke road side?), but it will be practically impossible for them to carry anything more specialised than that, like rear hangars for the dozens of different bike models, special spokes to fit different model deep wheelsets, etc... At most I think that practically a support crew will only ever be able carry spares to deal with your run of the mill mechanicals and punctures - that people should be able to fix themselves anyway... or limp back to the finish... And there is always next year!

Ya the cycle was about 96km last year - should be the same this year as its the same route. Did the swim last year faster than most of my 1500m swim times... Hopefully the swim bouys will be put out in the right place this year.

I'll be there. Course is the same as last year acc to the description on the cyclelab entry site...

Bend over and ask your wife / GF to squeeze them.

Absolutely - on my first IM I carried 3 bottles to start - two with carb drink and 1 bottle water. Quickly learned it was not necessary given all the aid stations, and I must have gone through 5 aid stations before I needed to replace bottles. Not quite applicable to IM, but in my first few Oly distance races I used to carry two bottles and two gels - then would get stomach cramps / stitches on the run from drinking and eating too much. Now I only take one bottle (of which I only drink about 3/4) and one gel, which is perfect for me for just over an hour's ride and then a stitch-free run.

This thread also reminds me of a post I read on Slowtwitch that went like this (from a pure roadie cyclist) - Q - What's a Tri bike? A - Its a TT bike that a "triathlete" got hold of, put on four bottle cages, a bento box and taped 3 spare tubes and 17 gels to it... Sadly, pretty accurate...