Picture of Wiggins on track this week. Could be just the angle but looks to me like he's moved further forward in position.
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M Sport said:Picture of Wiggins on track this week. Could be just the angle but looks to me like he's moved further forward in position.
The same rules apply for road and track.Jancouver said:M Sport said:Picture of Wiggins on track this week. Could be just the angle but looks to me like he's moved further forward in position.
Is the 5cm behind bb rule enforced for the track events such as the hour race?
Carols said:Hey no rain, wind or downhills. Nothing to interfere with the engine, he's a shoe in.
Carols said:Hey no rain, wind or downhills. Nothing to interfere with the engine, he's a shoe in.
SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
I think they improved his position aerodynamically otherwise it is not possible to go that far from dowsettKing Boonen said:SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
That must have taken a lot of number crunching...
IndianCyclist said:I think they improved his position aerodynamically otherwise it is not possible to go that far from dowsettKing Boonen said:SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
That must have taken a lot of number crunching...
Simple fluid mechanics actually. The Force on a body is proportional to the pv^2 * A which has to be overcome by the power generated by the rider. Compared to Dowsett, Wiggins aims to put 13% more power which is unlikely since if he had that much extra power he would have won PR easily. Therefore it is supposed to come from reduction of the frontal area or streamlining the body more to reduce turbulence.Jancouver said:IndianCyclist said:I think they improved his position aerodynamically otherwise it is not possible to go that far from dowsettKing Boonen said:SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
That must have taken a lot of number crunching...
Its not possible? Why not?
Please tell us more, I'm really curious to hear the bunch of nonsense you will (or rather wont) come up with.
what a crock of ****, he didn't even come close to dowsetts 10 mile record 2 weeks agoSinger01 said:Asked if he was in the best track form of his career, Wiggins replied: “If I was to get up and do a 4 kilometre pursuit I reckon I could get close to the world record in the right conditions or certainly go close to the PB I used to do.”
cocky brad, cocky!
ughh, stopped reading there....IndianCyclist said:Simple fluid mechanics actually. The Force on a body is proportional to the pv^2 * A which has to be overcome by the power generated by the rider. Compared to Dowsett, Wiggins aims to put 13% more power which is unlikely since if he had that much extra power he would have won PR easily. Therefore it is supposed to come from reduction of the frontal area or streamlining the body more to reduce turbulence.Jancouver said:IndianCyclist said:I think they improved his position aerodynamically otherwise it is not possible to go that far from dowsettKing Boonen said:SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
That must have taken a lot of number crunching...
Its not possible? Why not?
Please tell us more, I'm really curious to hear the bunch of nonsense you will (or rather wont) come up with.
he didn't even come close to dowsetts 10 mile record 2 weeks ago
SeriousSam said:Sir Brad announces the target: 55.25km. I crunched the numbers and it seems like he'll have to average 55.25kph to do this. That's pretty quick.
Ryo Hazuki said:what a crock of ****, he didn't even come close to dowsetts 10 mile record 2 weeks agoSinger01 said:Asked if he was in the best track form of his career, Wiggins replied: “If I was to get up and do a 4 kilometre pursuit I reckon I could get close to the world record in the right conditions or certainly go close to the PB I used to do.”
cocky brad, cocky!
Ryo Hazuki said:ughh, stopped reading there....
"It will add more kudos to the record the more people that attempt it. [Riders like] Tony Martin, Cancellara, Alex Dowsett, Rohan Dennis. Up to now it seems like people have been in a rush to get in there before I do it, and that's great, but I hope it continues after this weekend, whatever the record is."
SeriousSam said:"It will add more kudos to the record the more people that attempt it. [Riders like] Tony Martin, Cancellara, Alex Dowsett, Rohan Dennis. Up to now it seems like people have been in a rush to get in there before I do it, and that's great, but I hope it continues after this weekend, whatever the record is."
Such confidence. Already worried riders won't attempt to, and fail, to beat his new record.