100 mph fixie?
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100 mph fixie?
Deleted post... apparently this isn't news.
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Not a new idea in the world of motorpacing...
The current record is 167mph... the gentleman above was trying to break the record in 1979 and was aiming for 128mph but had a blowout at 110mph (and survived).
The current record is 167mph... the gentleman above was trying to break the record in 1979 and was aiming for 128mph but had a blowout at 110mph (and survived).
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Better his knees than mine. This story has been covered in another thread, but I had never seen this article before.
This quote has so much wrong with it, I don't even know where to start....Nothing like pop science written poorly!
This quote has so much wrong with it, I don't even know where to start....Nothing like pop science written poorly!
That monster of a chainring sports 105 teeth and is 17 inches in diameter. That means every go-round of the pedal sends the bike forward way farther than your standard road or mountain bike.
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I don't remember the speed he was attempting to hit, but I know there is a horrific crash video of french rider who was trying to set a new world record by riding down the side of a dormant volcanoe and his custom made/composite bike came apart at the seams during the record attempt. He face planted, into a rag doll flip, and than continued to rag doll for a few hundred feet. He did not survive. It's an awfully tough video to watch.
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This is for a fg/ss bike or all bikes?
I don't remember the speed he was attempting to hit, but I know there is a horrific crash video of french rider who was trying to set a new world record by riding down the side of a dormant volcanoe and his custom made/composite bike came apart at the seams during the record attempt. He face planted, into a rag doll flip, and than continued to rag doll for a few hundred feet. He did not survive. It's an awfully tough video to watch.
I don't remember the speed he was attempting to hit, but I know there is a horrific crash video of french rider who was trying to set a new world record by riding down the side of a dormant volcanoe and his custom made/composite bike came apart at the seams during the record attempt. He face planted, into a rag doll flip, and than continued to rag doll for a few hundred feet. He did not survive. It's an awfully tough video to watch.
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Your cog is slipping.
I don't remember the speed he was attempting to hit, but I know there is a horrific crash video of french rider who was trying to set a new world record by riding down the side of a dormant volcanoe and his custom made/composite bike came apart at the seams during the record attempt. He face planted, into a rag doll flip, and than continued to rag doll for a few hundred feet. He did not survive. It's an awfully tough video to watch.
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I've seen this bike pop up 3 times today in multiple threads and I'm not even paying attention to the forums all that much.
Big news week...Marathon Bombing, Senate "shooting" down background checks, Fertilizer blowing up in Texas, and now a bike with a big chainring.
Wonder what will happen tomorrow? "Bombing suspect shot down while riding bike through freshly fertilized field."
Big news week...Marathon Bombing, Senate "shooting" down background checks, Fertilizer blowing up in Texas, and now a bike with a big chainring.
Wonder what will happen tomorrow? "Bombing suspect shot down while riding bike through freshly fertilized field."
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"Muscles" - he big bulgy kind - are actually relative newcomers to the track racing world. Prior to the 1980s or so, even the sprinters were working on "supple" rather than "big". It was the East Germans (Lutz Hesslich in particular) who introduced the bodybuilder physique to track racing in the early-to-mid 1980s, and steroids are known to have played a part.
BTW, here's Fred Rompelberg in his prime.
Despite his "climber's build" he was a top motorpace racer and is the current world speed record holder at 167 MPH. He turned a gear of 390 inches, which is roughly the equivalent of a 164x11. (He used a double reduction system.)
BTW, here's Fred Rompelberg in his prime.
Despite his "climber's build" he was a top motorpace racer and is the current world speed record holder at 167 MPH. He turned a gear of 390 inches, which is roughly the equivalent of a 164x11. (He used a double reduction system.)
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They be thighs, I bet his tailor likes him... no pants in the world would fit off the rack.
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I was a motorpace specialist in the 80s. I can't recall any big muscle-y guys involved in it. Most of us (myself included) were actually kind of skinny. That game just isn't about power.
As unbelievable as Hoy was at what he did, I wonder if he would have been a decent stayer. The races generally went for 60 or 90 minutes and could cover nearly 100 kilometers, which isn't normally the kind of effort sprinters train for.
As unbelievable as Hoy was at what he did, I wonder if he would have been a decent stayer. The races generally went for 60 or 90 minutes and could cover nearly 100 kilometers, which isn't normally the kind of effort sprinters train for.
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I actually had a girl that was really impressed by my legs because they're pretty toned/muscular looking because of riding. I couldn't imagine having Hoy thighs, though. Bit of overkill.