Jen's Voights Hour Record Attempt.

blobbie

How many laps ?

A gazillion ???

Beasty

4 laps per km, so needs 200 to get to 50km

simonrooneyzaga

1/3 now on Paddy's. You wonder who they had pricing this market initially? I don't claim to be a cycling expert whatsoever but from a brief scour of the web reading up on the attempt it was definitely nowhere near 5/6.

Lusk_Doyle

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

1/3 now on Paddy's. You wonder who they had pricing this market initially? I don't claim to be a cycling expert whatsoever but from a brief scour of the web reading up on the attempt it was definitely nowhere near 5/6.

Have you seen the specials that they have on Eddie Dunbar and the TDF?

Beasty

Bit of a cock-up there by Eurosport showing the "motherf*cker" decal in all its glory ....

Pudsy33

Beasty wrote: »

Bit of a cock-up there by Eurosport showing the "motherf*cker" decal in all its glory ....

They've shown that clip about 4 times already.

Darkglasses

Cycling weekly tweeted that he's aiming for 50.5km, and possibly change that at the half way point.

Kind of exciting!

simonrooneyzaga

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Have you seen the specials that they have on Eddie Dunbar and the TDF?

Jesus, high hopes!

Eddie Dunbar to win a Tour de France stage at anytime of his career 5/4
Eddie Dunbar to win a Tour de France stage up to 2025 included 9/4
Eddie Dunbar to win the Tour de France General Classification Outright at anytime of his career 25/1
Eddie Dunbar to win the Tour de France General Classification Outright up to 2025 included 66/1



AND HE's OFF!!

Beasty

He's losing about 1.5m a lap by not keeping to the black line

Darkglasses

About half a lap ahead of Sosenka

Darkglasses

Lap 36: Jens just scratched his nose :eek:

neris

Darkglasses wrote: »

Oh, according to this presenter the record is currently held by a Russian guy, Ondrej Sosenko Oleg Tinkov

You know his ego would love it

What average speed does he need? Great consistency since I switched on.

Beasty

I personally think he's gone out a little too hard. The further in you get the more difficult it is to keep low on the track and with the amount he's currently going up the track in the bends he's adding 300-500m to his target

Beasty

Deleted User wrote: »

What average speed does he need? Great consistency since I switched on.

50 km/h;)

blobbie

Beasty wrote: »

I personally think he's gone out a little too hard. The further in you get the more difficult it is to keep low on the track and with the amount he's currently going up the track in the bends he's adding 300-500m to his target

+1

The last 10mins will be a killer

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

50 km/h;)

Seems a very round figure. :P

Beasty

Deleted User wrote: »

Seems a very round figure. :P

Well the current record is marginally under 49.7 km/h and as I've already said he seems to be adding at least 300m to his required distance by not keeping to the black line...

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well the current record is marginally under 49.7 km/h and as I've already said he seems to be adding at least 300m to his required distance by not keeping to the black line...

49.7, grand. :P
The consistency really is amazing. The graph would be a lovely wave so far.

Eamonnator

He's over a lap ahead at this stage

Muahahaha

whats the red device attached underneath his saddle? Also how does the team communicate with him, by using boards or are you allowed an earpiece

blobbie

Alex Dowsett ‏@alexdowsett 8m
Hope Jens is going to put this on Strava. He's already lapped the previous record.

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He's drifting a good bit out in the bends. He's wasting far too much energy time and distance, it'll hit him at the end. Come on Jens, tighten up!

neris

hes gona be a bit dizzy at the end all that round and round and round

Beasty

... now he's scratching his arse ...

Darkglasses

Muahahaha wrote: »

whats the red device attached underneath his saddle? Also how does the team communicate with him, by using boards or are you allowed an earpiece

That's the head unit for his power meter, that would normally be on his handlebars (not allowed to put it there in this event)

Team communicate by whistles and boards.

Beasty

neris wrote: »

hes gona be a bit dizzy at the end all that round and round and round

He's got to do another 200 laps clockwise after this just to unwind....

Beasty

Darkglasses wrote: »

Team communicate by .... boards.

Y'see - we have our uses:P

The tax man

Muahahaha wrote: »

whats the red device attached underneath his saddle? Also how does the team communicate with him, by using boards or are you allowed an earpiece

Probably some official timing gizmo. He's no access to any speed data,all he has is a power meter on the bike. A blow of a whistle is telling him if he's on course with his lap times.

Beasty

The tax man wrote: »

Probably some official timing gizmo. He's no access to any speed data,all he has is a power meter on the bike. A blow of a whistle is telling him if he's on course with his lap times.

It will be the transmitter for sending all the data back to his team

blobbie

On target to be 1 minute under.

oconnpad

Beasty wrote: »

He's got to do another 200 laps clockwise after this just to unwind....

The UCI rules state for the record to stand the challenge needs to be done clockwise.

He's going to be pee'd off when he gets off the bike and is told that.





Joking

Darkglasses

Still great lap times

dastardly00

Dan Martin @DanMartin86

Wish @thejensie would hurry up and finish.

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He's killing it now…god I hope he can hold it

Beasty

I definitely have changed my view here - I'm now convinced he's going to do it - more now a matter of how much he adds to the current record

Pudsy33

That 5/6 looks ok now

kumate_champ07

gadetra wrote: »

He's drifting a good bit out in the bends. He's wasting far too much energy time and distance, it'll hit him at the end. Come on Jens, tighten up!

that could be the fork rake, track forks are more stable at high speed, steering is dampened

*I could be wrong, 70% confident Im right

Darkglasses

I want to see a sub-17 second lap, come on Jensie!!

blobbie

Sub 17 - mad Ted

pelevin

He's just been caught by Tommy Voeckler. They're looking at each other.

Pudsy33

Darkglasses wrote: »

I want to see a sub-17 second lap, come on Jensie!!

He must have heard you

Darkglasses

There it is

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Darkglasses wrote: »

I want to see a sub-17 second lap, come on Jensie!!

Done, he's an animal!

Beasty

He's only got to do another 10 laps ....

ThisRegard

He's made it look fairly easy.

mistermatthew

Flying now.

Would Wiggans, Martin, cancellara beat this easily?

I was never under the impression Jensie was a great TTer?

dastardly00

Magnus is going to start crying I think!

on_the_nickel

pelevin wrote: »

He's just been caught by Tommy Voeckler. They're looking at each other.

I want to see Voeckler doing this. With his jersey open, nipples like bullets, gurning like a bulldog licking wasps off a nettle.

Pudsy33

mistermatthew wrote: »

Flying now.

Would Wiggans, Martin, cancellara beat this easily?

I was never under the impression Jensie was a great TTer?

Should do, but even still it's a great achievement.