If Hamilton can plug away with a dodgy collarbone on a sniff of a chymera, think what Stuey will do with access to big baldy's medicine cabinet:rolleyes:

Hey Jock, hope you're reading this?
View from the lab - Ric Stern's Tour de France sports science

Ric Stern

British ABCC coach Ric Stern (www.cyclecoach.com) is a regular contributor to Cyclingnews' Form & Fitness section along with being a full time coach. Still an active rider when time allows, Ric will be providing a physiological insight into the challenges that face the riders in the Tour.

I had a cracked rib and damaged rib cartilage a couple of years ago, and I could barely move or breathe for a week! I had to tie a rope to the wardrobe to pull meself out of bed with my 'good' arm. I dunno how these riders and footballers continue on with cracked bones.

Ah Jock and Rick Stern, best of friends from the other " cycling " forums ( .com?)

yer, i broke a rib doing mixed martial arts ( those were the days...) for 8 weeks i had to sleep on the lounge ( normally the case when i upset the misses anyhows) on my right hand side and everytime i moved, stretched, yawned, farted i hurt like crazy.

fun times....

you guys hear Tomo stuff up last night when he was speaking to the Ride journo?

He didn't know that Kessler was the same guy who was out front at the end of the previous stage. :)
I s'pose he's a busy guy with lots to do :)

Love it!

"After a lot of testing, our Bianchi Reparto Corse engineers decided to increase the diameter of the seat tube of 2007 to increase the rigidity of the frame, but not increase the weight."

Well, um, as the SECOND HIGHEST STRESSED FRAME MEMBER, you'd think increasing the diameter of the seat tube would make a bike stiffer and stronger, which um is what I've been doing since day one.

Good work Bianchi! You're like sooo cutting edge!

:rolleyes:

Ooops. Did I say that out loud? :o

Also in the " all new and improved" level of contradictions... can you explain how they increase the diameter therefore adding more metal, but dont add weight? ( unles they use thinner tubing, but doesnt that negate the suggested increased stifness?

Yeah, the tube would have to be thinner or use shorter butting or something like that if the larger one is the same weight as the smaller one. I suspect it isn't though.

Stiffness is mostly a resultant of cross-sectional area to length, so the bigger the tube the stiffer it is. Wall thickness does play a part, but only a minor one.

It's called drugs...and lots of them...:D

however im guessing that wall thickness has a major impact on strength?

Yeah, the thinner something is, the more prone to it is to crumpling or denting. However, most frames fail at the weld zone, so having a bigger area there and thicker walls in the weld zone makes for a stronger frame. Hence butted tubing.

Man, where is this customer? He said he'd come over at lunchtime Wednesday and it's now 2pm and not even a courtesy call.

He's off buying a Trek. :p

Ric Stern.


ed073 is his #1 fan.

jock, I'm going to Calga Sat, do you want to me to transfer this pumping device to HDT ?

I'll just sit here biding my time and biting my tongue...

Yup. Please take a camera so we can give Expat proof of delivery :D

Although if you take the pump up to Calga it is very likely that HDT's missus will change his plans at the last minute and he won't be there. Then there'll be a seven month period where you try to get the pump back to me so I can take another seven months to get it to HDT, and it will end up in pshaw's hands...

fark me. how cheap are chains on PBK? should be a heap and sell them to my friends! ( well i would if i had any.... :( )

Misses will be there as well i think doing the photograph thing.... only things that will stop me going is a) car malfunctions or b) rain. i hate riding in the rain.

it still has to make it from jock's place to mine.....

If you googled 'Thylacine Cycles' you would've had more luck. :D Add to that my website isn't hosted in Australia, and hence, I don't show up.

Plus, we're extinct, remember? Didn't think you could just Google "custom road bike frames" and find us, did ya? :beer:

Thylacine Cycles.....they seek 'em here...they seek 'em there.... :p

Now that's EXCLUSIVE, so much so, you can't have one!!!:p :D