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    #392
    ThisRegard
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    I thought Cav might have pushed harder for gold, might he be disappointed? He doesn't look overjoyed.

    I suppose hadn't he messed up in the elimination he would have been in a much better place coming in.


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    #393
    SwissToni
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭SwissToni


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I ain't on it either but I disagree with what you are saying.

    It's a fine line between an accident and deliberate action, you see it one way I see it another, I just think he has crossed that fine line a couple of times now, but that's part of what makes him the sprinter he is.


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    #394
    Pantanifan84
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Pantanifan84


    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?


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    #395
    Beasty
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    Raam wrote: »
    What happened?
    He forced a rider off the track by coming down in a similar fashion (although not as sharp as it was coming onto the straight rather then on the steep bend) to Cav


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    #396
    ednwireland
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    Pantanifan84 wrote: »
    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?

    how do i tell the lotto we need 20 mill to build a velodrome in the town

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #397
    Beasty
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    Pantanifan84 wrote: »
    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?
    Track bikes are (OK can be!) very cheap with little to go wrong (until you crash in spectacular fashion!)


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    #398
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Raam wrote: »
    the leader

    I wonder does he sing "nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah leader" as he points.


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    #399
    Raam
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I wonder does he sing "nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah leader" as he points.

    If he doesn't, he should.


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    #400
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Raam wrote: »
    If he doesn't, he should.

    "Leader, leader.....leader"


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    #401
    Beasty
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    ednwireland wrote: »
    how do i tell the lotto we need 20 mill to build a velodrome in the town
    Original plans for a 200m track would have cost maybe a couple of million (morana was close to that). Current proposal, including all those badminton facilities, is around 6 million I think


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    #402
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,402 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Beasty wrote: »
    Original plans for a 200m track would have cost maybe a couple of million (morana was close to that). Current proposal, including all those badminton facilities, is around 6 million I think

    when i win the euromillions .................

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #403
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I wonder does he sing "nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah leader" as he points.

    For those of you infidels less versed in the fine art of the Simpsons wondering what the hell.we are on about...

    https://youtu.be/1aYN5XpWzpM


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    #404
    godtabh
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    Just looking at the womens race. What head units are they using? I keep see flashing lights on their stems


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    #405
    StevieGriff
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    What happened to all the talk of the USA track team using bikes with left hand cranks?


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    #406
    Beasty
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    Trott 118
    D'Hoore 110
    Hammer 108


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    #407
    dastardly00
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    Fantastic performance from Trott.


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    #408
    Beasty
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    godtabh wrote: »
    Just looking at the womens race. What head units are they using? I keep see flashing lights on their stems

    That's to tell them they are out


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    #409
    godtabh
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    StevieGriff wrote: »
    What happened to all the talk of the USA track team using bikes with left hand cranks?

    Hamer finished 3rd


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    #410
    godtabh
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    Beasty wrote: »
    That's to tell them they are out

    that's all?


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    #411
    neris
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    godtabh wrote: »
    Just looking at the womens race. What head units are they using? I keep see flashing lights on their stems

    the yokes that tell em they're eliminated


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    #412
    Beasty
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    StevieGriff wrote: »
    What happened to all the talk of the USA track team using bikes with left hand cranks?
    They were designed for the pursuit and were used in the TP and by Hammer in the Omnium IP


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    #413
    Beasty
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    Just thinking - maybe I should move some poste to the aggressive behaviour among cyclists thread


    :pac:


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    #414
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Those bottle holders they get are nice but hardly aero!


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    #415
    MediaMan
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭MediaMan


    Viviani takes Gold in the blubbering competition!


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    #416
    Beasty
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    CameraBag wrote: »
    For the riders who lap the field, presumably the number of laps is still considered to be that of the main bunch when they rejoin? They're not a lap ahead for the rest of the race, right?
    See this one never got a response

    When a lap is taken everyone else ends up doing one lap less. That's part of the reason the Commissaire points to the "head of the race" - effectively the leader on the track, and when they pass the start line the lap counter drops.

    Hence it's possible to "save" say 5 laps if there are 5 laps taken at different times

    That was part of the confusion in the scratch race yesterday. Riders were within around 50m of taking a lap as they were about to enter their own last lap. The bell went and we all thought that bell was for the main bunch. However it appears they still had 2 laps to do. Some went for the line on the first of those 2 because they had heard the bell, but it had not been for them and they still had another lap to go.

    EDIT - what I'm saying above is definitely the case for the Scratch race but I'm not so sure now about the Points race. If I remember I'll ask at Sundrive on Wednesday


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    #417
    fryup
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    why wasn't Cavindish disqualified ??

    he blatantly took the korean rider out of it, and why didn't the bbc cover it their post race summary ??


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    #418
    Beasty
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    I've already posted my take in this thread - have a look back through the comments made at the time of and for a while after the incident


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    #419
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    yes, i've seen it but i don't agree with you...imo it was blatant

    he didn't even have the decency to apologise in his post-race interview, bad form in my book


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    #420
    ThisRegard
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    He apologised personally when they were cycling under the yellow flag to those still riding. I'm sure the Korean will get one, I doubt he was watching the BBC coverage at the time.


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    #421
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    yes, i've seen it but i don't agree with you...imo it was blatant

    he didn't even have the decency to apologise in his post-race interview, bad form in my book

    He did actually. He said he hoped he was ok.


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