Tokyo Olympics 2020 - Cycling

[kosmonooit]

BBC is limited since Eurosport bought all the rights. If you can get Eurosport player, lots of channels, but near to impossible to get s sub for that unless you have a UK or Euro based Credit or Debit Card, but if you (or anyone else) has a solution for that, please share.

[TNT1]

4 minutes ago, kosmonooit said:

BBC is limited since Eurosport bought all the rights. 

Sure, but they show enough live of what I wanted to watch, and their highlights packages are well put together.

Plus when that's done, you can watch all their other content which keeps the Chinese happy.

[kosmonooit]

Although it should be said the BBC Breakfast team is far too bright and bushy tailed for my advanced age and cynical disposition.

[kosmonooit]

Krikey WR's are falling like flies on the track .... .GanNa !

[kosmonooit]

No shin tape on the Danes

[kosmonooit]

Drama with the Danes and the Brits in the team persuit! Dane rides blindly into a Brit

[lechatnoir]

3 minutes ago, kosmonooit said:

Drama with the Danes and the Brits in the team persuit! Dane rides blindly into a Brit

was mental. the Dane wasn't looking and wasn't expecting a laggard to be in the way. but still, chasing rider needs to pass safely. curious that the GB men's pursuit isn't so strong with the rest of their track team being so good

[dsw]

3 minutes ago, lechatnoir said:

was mental. the Dane wasn't looking and wasn't expecting a laggard to be in the way. but still, chasing rider needs to pass safely. curious that the GB men's pursuit isn't so strong with the rest of their track team being so good

They lost Ed Clancy who retired yesterday due to an injury.

[kosmonooit]

Looks like Mens Team GB more interested in Team Sprint

[kosmonooit]

German ladies smash the team pursuit! Another WR! Team GB silver.

[kosmonooit]

Chloe MAGA and the USA girls  Bronze

[kosmonooit]

NL Gold in Mens Team Sprint, another silver for GB. New OR.

[Shebeen]

20 hours ago, Nick said:

Not exactly hi-res but best I can find for now.

 

spent 15 minutes unsuccessfully trying to find a video of this.

 

is it emabrgoed?

[geomark]

14 hours ago, shaper said:

Sockgate or more aptly tapegate.... 

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/danish-track-team-shin-tape/

 

1 hour ago, kosmonooit said:

No shin tape on the Danes

https://twitter.com/Doctor_Hutch/status/1422142259919790083?s=20

https://twitter.com/Doctor_Hutch/status/1422463961304346663?s=20

 

[DieselnDust]

11 hours ago, Mountain Bru said:

I think the titanium 3D printing technology is sufficiently advanced already to produce reliable parts. I know they have one at the CSIR here in Pretoria and I remember going to a talk about 3 years ago where they seemed to be getting good results. If I remember correctly, they were trying to print aircraft parts at the time, and seemed happy with the output they were getting. And that's at a state owned company in South Africa... I would expect that a specialist commercial company overseas could potentially be far ahead of us, and also would have proper quality control of printed items to ensure that wall thicknesses are correct and that layers have fused correctly etc. 

 

The over tightened bolt sounds plausible to me though. I mean even on carbon fibre, which is something we all trust without thinking, overtightening a bolt can cause catastrophic failure. Also, if there was an inherent problem with the bars, you'd expect that there would be more problems with them failing seen as the entire team has been training on them for months. 1 failure in a race points more towards an isolated problem rather than a problem with the component design or manufacturing itself. 

#D printing of Metals for structural parts is still highly experimental. These bars were requested by the Australian cycling federation. Not many were made hence Bastion pulled the product from their site within minutes of the public failure.

Yes it might very well be an isolated failure but that could very well be due to inconsistent wall thickness. Printing a frame lug vs a thin walled highly loaded loaded part are two different engineering challenges. I'm sure that since the failure was so highly publicized a failure report will be made available once the investigation into the failure is concluded. It shoudn't take more than a few days  so we'll know soon enough 

[SwissVan]

2 hours ago, lechatnoir said:

was mental. the Dane wasn't looking and wasn't expecting a laggard to be in the way. but still, chasing rider needs to pass safely. curious that the GB men's pursuit isn't so strong with the rest of their track team being so good

I was just watching this and wondering if dropped or slower riders have a responsibility to move clear of the racing line?

You can see other riders floating at the top of the track or on the inside.

But ja you would think even at WR effort through the red haze the Danish riders would have seen him in time 

 

Video below

Kurioser Sturz - Däne fährt Briten über den Haufen – und vergeigt sicheren Weltrekord - 20 Minuten