First race, got to learn about neutral wheels
03-07-11, 01:00 AM
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First race, got to learn about neutral wheels
Yep, ten miles into the first lap out of three at the Banana Belt in portland, got a flat, wheel car came by fifteen minutes later and he gave me an Aksium race wheel. I finished the second lap solo, then when I reached the finish, the rest of the Cat 5's were 7 minutes behind me/ 23 minutes ahead of me, so I just stopped and watched the finish.
I volunteered in the morning and got free registration, and I got good some good experience. I'm going back next week.
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03-07-11, 08:46 AM
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^ might have been supporting more than one category, might have had to stop to help another rider.
Realistically, anyway a spare in the wheel truck is basically there so you don't have to ride back to the car on a flat. Without teammates to help and team cars to sneak a draft off, you're very unlikely to get back on, even if the wheel truck is there in 15 seconds.
Realistically, anyway a spare in the wheel truck is basically there so you don't have to ride back to the car on a flat. Without teammates to help and team cars to sneak a draft off, you're very unlikely to get back on, even if the wheel truck is there in 15 seconds.
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03-07-11, 11:14 AM
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^ might have been supporting more than one category, might have had to stop to help another rider.
Realistically, anyway a spare in the wheel truck is basically there so you don't have to ride back to the car on a flat. Without teammates to help and team cars to sneak a draft off, you're very unlikely to get back on, even if the wheel truck is there in 15 seconds.
Realistically, anyway a spare in the wheel truck is basically there so you don't have to ride back to the car on a flat. Without teammates to help and team cars to sneak a draft off, you're very unlikely to get back on, even if the wheel truck is there in 15 seconds.
truth - any amount of time is tough to make back.
I've even closed 60" of 75", and even though the pack was in sight, I couldn't close up the last 15"... it broke my spirit pretty badly to get that close and not finish it.
Good work volunteering - the community needs more people like you.
03-07-11, 01:22 PM
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Probably got dropped on the hill 5 miles in and used the wheel car from field coming up from behind. I was in the Cat 3 version of that race in the morning.
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03-07-11, 01:27 PM
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truth - any amount of time is tough to make back.
I've even closed 60" of 75", and even though the pack was in sight, I couldn't close up the last 15"... it broke my spirit pretty badly to get that close and not finish it.
Good work volunteering - the community needs more people like you.
I've even closed 60" of 75", and even though the pack was in sight, I couldn't close up the last 15"... it broke my spirit pretty badly to get that close and not finish it.
Good work volunteering - the community needs more people like you.
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For the rest of the story, it turns out chasing back on from two flats really kills the legs. I got dropped about 20 minutes after I got back on during a really fast downwind section of the race.
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Cat 2 Track, Cat 3 Road.
"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
03-07-11, 03:13 PM
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Yeah this is what happened, the pack was already about a hundred yards ahead of me when I got the flat, and the wheel car was supporting the two other groups behind me.
03-07-11, 03:45 PM
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Any wheel van story prompts me to post this:
https://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.co...new-wheel.html
I'm still hoping to meet the guy who got the tow.
https://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.co...new-wheel.html
I'm still hoping to meet the guy who got the tow.
03-14-11, 06:15 PM
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Well, I finished this time, still way in the back, me and several others got dropped at the first hard hill. I was ahead of most of those who dropped, I never passed anybody or got passed for the rest of the race, atleast it was a good rain ride
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