"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - An idea for that short TT starting the Giro...

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Hipcycler
05-19-05, 06:27 AM
Just throwing this one out there after watching the short TT that opened the tour....

It was so much like a little dragstrip anyway, wouldn't it have been more fan-friendly if they did some sort of seeding and actually had two riders, side-by-side racing like a dragstrip?

classic1
05-19-05, 07:03 AM
Hmmm.... you might be onto something there. They ran the kilo on the track like a pursuit for a short while, and I've seen straight line sprints over 300m on the road.

The only fault I can see is that the TT was on the seafront, so if the wind blew in off the ocean the rider on the ocean side of the road would have been sheltered and favoured by the barricades and the crowd.
GV27
05-19-05, 07:55 AM
Pretty much any idea you think of would have made that less boring. It would have been more interesting to draw a name from a hat to wear the Maglia Rosa!

timmhaan
05-19-05, 02:03 PM
or you could have two riders face each other, 1km apart. then they ride toward each other in full body armour, shields, and javelins. actually it might be cooler to replace the bikes with horses, since it would be hard to ride a bike with all that stuff. has anything like that ever been done before? :p
DieselDan
05-19-05, 02:52 PM
How about a crossover at the halfway point ot eliminate any advantage?
Jaco
05-19-05, 04:07 PM
or you could have two riders face each other, 1km apart. then they ride toward each other in full body armour, shields, and javelins. actually it might be cooler to replace the bikes with horses, since it would be hard to ride a bike with all that stuff. has anything like that ever been done before? :p

It would be new if you gave them chainsaws...or machine guns.
Hipcycler
05-20-05, 06:51 AM
How about a crossover at the halfway point ot eliminate any advantage?

Perfect!
classic1
05-20-05, 09:27 AM
Splat!
EventServices
05-20-05, 02:00 PM
How about we let them race it the old way, but blindfolded.
This would put more emphasis on their pre-race study of the course.
Voodoo76
05-20-05, 02:11 PM
Just throwing this one out there after watching the short TT that opened the tour....

It was so much like a little dragstrip anyway, wouldn't it have been more fan-friendly if they did some sort of seeding and actually had two riders, side-by-side racing like a dragstrip?

Street Sprints, always a fun event to watch and ride!
DieselDan
05-20-05, 07:14 PM
Splat!
Not eactly like that. The crossover would be a bridge over the other lane. One lane would bridge over the other, and the other would have a dip in it to make it fair.