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On 4/14/2024 at 1:39 PM, Nakoota said:Two weeks ago Barney broke his leg, he didn't come back from the doctor quite the same.
Build incoming.
Wow, looks beautiful. Who did the paint job?
Nills Pollit for the win on Sunday.
Stage win for Louis under not so great circumstances.
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Enjoy @Eddie Stafford
Looks like my size🤐
26 minutes ago, 'Dale said:Gent-Wevelgem:
76 kms to go and a tactical masterclass by Lidl-Trek thus far. It’s been a day of echelons with 30 km/h crosswinds on a cool and dry Belgian day.
Beautiful racing.
Enjoying the racing and the tactics from Lidl-Trek, but I feel it is only a matter of time for MvdP to go solo.
8 minutes ago, Danger Dassie said:Ya, like the vids but it's a very different consumption, plenty demand for copy/photos though. Still correlating a lot of stuff among other work, but here's Impey's bike. Nothing spectacular customisation wise, but I quite like it for the fact that it's essentially stock off the floor and good enough for a WT pro.
Theres a bunch of stuff from last year as well.
Thank you DD
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7 minutes ago, Danger Dassie said:38t for Grotts while Matt seems to alternate sizes. According to some of the team staff, did some bike checks yesterday.
Please share links to some of those bike checks.
Prefer reading and drooling over the pictures than watching a vid, but looks like those days are also passing.
I can’t afford not to get any work done this week!😬
It will be cheaper to take leave, send the wife and kiddies to Herhold’s bay and come down to experience the Epic.
2 minutes ago, babse said:Significantly different from previous years.
No mention of Ceramic Speed OSPW systems.
17 minutes ago, Vetplant said:110km to go.
Those on DSTV can follow on RAI, channel 430
Thank you Vetplant. Switched to early to 430, was looking on Youtube, but prefer 430.
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1 hour ago, Danger Dassie said:Found some frames…
Giving away my age, but back in the day of junior triathlon racing, Christoff would hammer us on the bike and put in the nail on the run.
He could have raced as a pro triathlete.
3 hours ago, NotSoBigBen said:Thank heavens I'm just a hacker cyclist .... when people ask I say I own an Sworks Epic, don't have to mention which one do I?
Have a Gen1 S-works epic, 26 nogal.
1 hour ago, Phillippe Coetzee said:Those were in 2018, also did cross country which was 6km.
my 5km time was 17 ish minutes. So dont have the most experience in endurance races, did a 10km once in 34mins but thats about it..
Just think I need to find my feet hehe 😂
After school I got a skin decease (Cholinergic Urticaria) So I couldnt really practise or be in the sun, so I lost interest in all sports because it was a living hell.. But I out grew the skin thingy and I am back on track, trying to get into shape like I was. 😅 We all got to start somewhere
Running a 34min 10km is serious potential.
Structured training and you would bend cranks in 6 months time.
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Have a good ride and a great day out to all Hubbers!
4 hours ago, Shebeen said:BikeGrid 3 - 9/9
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Rarity: 37https://bikegrid.escapecollective.com/
I spent a bit of time checking before clicking today.
hint AMP
@Shebeennext level!
Should make time to try out.
Made some time.
Results correlates with my .... day.
BikeGrid 3 - 5/9
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20 minutes ago, Shebeen said:My view on elite sports requiring dedicated training from a young age? For every pogi/phelps/nadal superstar there are 99 other kids who dreamed of the same but spent their childhood drilled at practice putting in the same hours and never got there. Is it worth the 1% chance of professional success over the 99% chance of doing a sport so much that you don't enjoy it? ** Not in my books, I'd rather take the odds of picking something up later and then working on it.
Competitive swimming(IMHO) is a dumb sport, it really is if you think about it. You dedicate a massive amount of your youth to building up to maybe just having a shot at the only thing that counts (olympics). Squad swimming kids are at the pool early 3 mornings a week from a young age. forget 10 000 hours, for swimming you need 30 000. It's a recipe for burnout and no way to grow up even if you do get there - the best possible outcome is you get really good is a kickass college degree(that you hardly studied at because your eyes were so burnt from all the chlorine). Simple answer. reduce the amount of olympic medals for swimming, it's really not such a big sport in the scheme of things but is only held up because it is big at the olympics.
Moving on we now have the chinese sporting model, which is version 2.0 of the cold war academy. They throw money,coaches etc at promising kids in olympic medal sports. eg. Does china have a canoeing scene? no, not even a club or a race but they now have olympic medals in it because they have sent a battery of kids through a boarding school for 15 years doing it for the state.
another example Lily from china who won olympic sailing gold. her parents saw her 2 weeks a year from the age of 8 and had never seen her actually sailing. Actually a sad story, she doesn;t sail anymore is much happier being a broadcaster/commentator
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/04/sport/xu-lijia-china-sailing-olympics/
Instead I like the Norwegian model, let the kids play, if they show promise then work on it much later
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/how-norway-won-all-that-olympic-gold-again/
edit: added this from another link,
** figures generalised obviously much closer to 0.000001% and 99.9999999%
Appreciate @Shebeen
My training back round is swimming...I hate swimming...even with young children in the house, I will get into the pool handful of times during the season.
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Clear color carbon and gold just works.
Sure @waynepuddingmol would approved. #missthatguy