Road Bike Racing - Racer Ex's bum

Orange and blue kit, on his Fuji. Pretty prominent around 1:30. This is from the last few laps of the Tuesday night crit up in Dallas (I've never been there, pulled this off txbra).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjwauYsz024

At first I thought this was his lap-the-field day, but that was the previous week. Anyway, I had this view a lot at Lago Vista...

Thanks for sharing. I'd like to see the "lap-the-field" videos.

What's more surprising... that you posted a thread about 'Racer Ex's bum', or that I clicked on it?

Ha, I actually watched this last night and wondered if there was anybody from here in it.

What's more surprising... that you posted a thread about 'Racer Ex's bum', or that I clicked on it?

Or that WR has spent enough time looking at RX's bum to pick it out in a video.

Yeah, that is kind of messed up. :eek:

Does this skinsuit make me look fat? Does the orange and blue set off my eyes?

Quick time line play by play:

0:00- 2:10 chill from prior efforts
2:10- 4:40 move up into first ten or so to answer any shennanagins
4:41- Bell lap
4:42- 5:26 Wait....
5:26-6:08 Go to the front and drill the heck out of it for my sprinter buddy*
6:09 explode in flames.

* Fun watching the line string out. According to the SRM we held 28-29 through the corner. Kept the line tight because of the crosswind coming in.

Lead out:
Duration: 0:42
Work: 20 kJ
TSS: 2.6 (intensity factor 1.483)

Distance: 0.339 mi

Power:
Min 296w
Max 880w
Avg 479w

NP for that crit was 326.

I did not know RacerEx was a local! http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/Aielyn/th_wave.gif


Didn't I read you were the 40something who made it to cat2?

I did not know RacerEx was a local! http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/Aielyn/th_wave.gif


Didn't I read you were the 40something who made it to cat2?

Yep, 329 in dog years.

Does this skinsuit make me look fat? Does the orange and blue set off my eyes?

Quick time line play by play:

0:00- 2:10 chill from prior efforts
2:10- 4:40 move up into first ten or so to answer any shennanagins
4:41- Bell lap
4:42- 5:26 Wait....
5:26-6:08 Go to the front and drill the heck out of it for my sprinter buddy*
6:09 explode in flames.

* Fun watching the line string out. According to the SRM we held 28-29 through the corner. Kept the line tight because of the crosswind coming in.

Lead out:
Duration: 0:42
Work: 20 kJ
TSS: 2.6 (intensity factor 1.483)

Distance: 0.339 mi

Power:
Min 296w
Max 880w
Avg 479w

NP for that crit was 326.

Yeah, it looks like you completely killed our camera man :roflmao:

I hope I get to crit with you some time. Not for the view, mind you.

Yeah, it looks like you completely killed our camera man :roflmao:

I hope I get to crit with you some time. Not for the view, mind you.

For the view, you can always screen capture the above video.;)

Dear lord are there some frightfully ugly kits in there.

Dear lord are there some frightfully ugly kits in there.

Very very different racing to over here that is for sure.

Very very different racing to over here that is for sure.

In all fairness, my Aussie friend, that's a weeknight training crit in...Texas.

Any big name, real (non-training race) crits at the Pro/1/2 level will be strung out one or two wide at 30mph.

That, and those helmet/bar cams do a terrible, awful job of portraying speed. Could have been 20mph or 35mph, for all I know. I honestly couldn't tell.

I've been in the Austin training crit when two Euro pros (Pat McCarty - USA and Kristian House - GBR) were racing it. It's plenty fast enough for training. Last year we had three sweeping 180 degree turns that you had to coast through on 1:12 laps, and still came out with a 28mph average speed for 60 minutes. So, that's with the leaders coasting about 15% of the time and scrubbing off speed, listing about 40 degrees.

I think the helmet cam is setting this one up a bit slower.

Very very different racing to over here that is for sure.

Yeah...Cr0zzy, Chopper Kincaid, Stephen Weber (didn't he race Pro for 5 years?), Geoff Godsey etc..are sure slow up here in N. Texas.

I was there, soloing off the front of the C race

the As were plenty fast, from the sidelines anyway

Ok, for a discussion of tactics, it seemed that there was plenty of room to go up the side to move forward in the pack in that. But nobody seemed to do so. If I'd been there, that's what I would've done, but then my racing record is nothing to be advertised.

Discuss?

Well, it depends on the speed. The last few laps of the A race... going up the side of a 32mph pack may not be for everyone.

Ok, for a discussion of tactics, it seemed that there was plenty of room to go up the side to move forward in the pack in that. But nobody seemed to do so. If I'd been there, that's what I would've done, but then my racing record is nothing to be advertised.

Discuss?

Hmm I tend to agree. Down here if the guys on the front aren't "ridgee didge" for even a few seconds then a train will just blow through them especially on the last few laps/km of a training ride.

Soft shoe shuffle in the last 3 laps? forgetaboutit.......

There just didn't seem to be an "appetite to work" in that bunch in the video. That just would never happen down here on a training ride IMO.

I am not saying we are better than you seppos (but we are) its just that I cant relate to what I saw in the video. Perhaps as some have said that video isn't indicative. Fair enough.

Seppo,

I can agree. Most training races I've been in involve a lot more willingness to kill oneself just for the workout. This group appears to think they're actually racing, like for money or something.