New marginal gains ideas.

[doperhopper]

Seeing that portable VO2 mask in GCN video (of yesterday, ep. 174) one can vividly picture Vroom completing his alien look wearing this doing uphill 200 rpm seated attacks on Ventoux... riding to powermax, riding to VO2 max.

Time for a special thread on new marginal gains ideas, perhaps. Do you have some?

 

[hrotha]

Eco chambers increase retention of team orders and tired jokes by 33%.

 

[sniper]

why come up with new ones if you can just recycle old ones?

Two weeks later LeMond showed up in tennis shoes. “I ended up getting second place."
http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

"[Chris] turned up in his sandshoes and he performed really well," recalled Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/19/chris-froome-kenyan-tour-de-france

 

[thehog]

Re:

why come up with new ones if you can just recycle old ones?

Two weeks later LeMond showed up in tennis shoes. “I ended up getting second place."
http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

"[Chris] turned up in his sandshoes and he performed really well," recalled Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/19/chris-froome-kenyan-tour-de-france

Just buy the Lance books, on special in the discount holder at the local bookshop. Regurgitate. They haven't to my knowledge done the full "he reconned all the stages 3 times over before Tour. Although I think Wiggins used that one.

 

[The Hitch]

Re: Re:

why come up with new ones if you can just recycle old ones?

Two weeks later LeMond showed up in tennis shoes. “I ended up getting second place."
http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

"[Chris] turned up in his sandshoes and he performed really well," recalled Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/19/chris-froome-kenyan-tour-de-france

Just buy the Lance books, on special in the discount holder at the local bookshop. Regurgitate. They haven't to my knowledge done the full "he reconned all the stages 3 times over before Tour. Although I think Wiggins used that one.

.in his speech on off the ball (the one where he refused to discuss the issue with kimmage or tucker cos he knew they would punch through his bs) Walsh tells in amazement about how sky studied the parcors before the race and used this revolutionary idea to plan an attack on the first mtf. True genius.

 

[King Of Molehill]

Faith?

 

[Maxiton]

Re:

http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

I see he's wearing his Della Santa shirt in that pic. Della Santa is a custom frame builder of long repute in NorCal. Classic Italian racing geometry. There used to be a shop, recently closed, alas, in San Francisco that would measure you for and sell you a Della Santa. Its owner, Len, was a master wheel builder, and knew more about racing bikes, and racing fit, than probably anybody else in town. He didn't suffer fools easily, though, so not everyone had a good time when visiting his tiny shop. Too bad its gone, it was great.

We now return you to your regular programming.

 

[the delgados]

I love the tubular trophy.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Guardianista takes Margin Gains down a peg:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/11/shane-sutton-victoria-pendleton-british-cycling-technical-director

In the future, perhaps, a vast body of research will permit us to devise a metric for the benefits of a horrible boss. Given that so many people have at one time or another worked for one, this would certainly seem to be the next lucrative step for the marginal gains

 

[42x16ss]

Re:

Guardianista takes Margin Gains down a peg:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/11/shane-sutton-victoria-pendleton-british-cycling-technical-director

In the future, perhaps, a vast body of research will permit us to devise a metric for the benefits of a horrible boss. Given that so many people have at one time or another worked for one, this would certainly seem to be the next lucrative step for the marginal gains

So that's why they had Sutton on as staff

 

[Archibald]

Seeing that portable VO2 mask in GCN video (of yesterday, ep. 174) one can vividly picture Vroom completing his alien look wearing this doing uphill 200 rpm seated attacks on Ventoux... riding to powermax, riding to VO2 max.

Time for a special thread on new marginal gains ideas, perhaps. Do you have some?

Don't forget to add that little nose opener thingy he uses to that picture

 

[chuckmicD]

Organic-Only.

 

[blackcat]

tape measures

 

[Ricco']

BBQ on rest days to clean up the organism.

 

[thehog]

Re:

BBQ on rest days to clean up the organism.

Is there a picture of the fry up?

 

[Ricco']

Re: Re:

BBQ on rest days to clean up the organism.

Is there a picture of the fry up?

 

[blackcat]

Re: Re:

BBQ on rest days to clean up the organism.

Is there a picture of the fry up?

antipodean influence. evidently this is where sky started going downhill #ilFalco metaphor and wiggins started drinking room temperature ale.

well it aint a ferkin metaphor, u already made it analogy or synonym, and you had to suppress the worst you could have joked about wiggins

or lager lager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLWFa1b1Bc

 

[blackcat]

Re:

Organic-Only.

i raise u biodynamic vegan insufferable friend who only speaks and extemporizes announces to the world that he she is vegan and you should STFU and respect that choice. <the hog eyeroll>

 

[blackcat]

Faith?

muscular christianity zeno's paradox

F-dog does it losing muscle he is a manifest exponent of muscular christianity

 

[Ricco']

Big ice creams to get you on the right track to victory... Only in Tenerife.

https://www.facebook.com/Heladeria-Chocoloco-Palm-Mar-1654579611462801/?ref=br_rs

 

[HelmutRoole]

Re:

From VeloNews: Leftside-drive bike could give Team USA winning edge
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/05/bikes-and-tech/team-usas-not-secret-weapon-left-side-drive-felt-tafrd_406510#4AqwROcj5YmQxZfX.99

It reads like a USAC press release. They're preloading they're excuses to explain the performances to come.

 

[blackcat]

Re:

Big ice creams to get you on the right track to victory... Only in Tenerife.

https://www.facebook.com/Heladeria-Chocoloco-Palm-Mar-1654579611462801/?ref=br_rs

Nutella>Choocoloco Palm Mar

 

[pclemo]

Plausible cover story with paperwork for events where plausible deniability cannot exonerate the management.

 

[red_flanders]

Re:

why come up with new ones if you can just recycle old ones?

Two weeks later LeMond showed up in tennis shoes. “I ended up getting second place."
http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

"[Chris] turned up in his sandshoes and he performed really well," recalled Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/19/chris-froome-kenyan-tour-de-france

That you would compare the two situations boggles the mind.

One guy winning every race he entered from the first days he was riding a bike, the other with some verifiably made-up story about sand shoes (whatever those are) who won nothing until an amazing transformation later in his career.

 

[sniper]

that you would interpret that as a dig at Lemond rather than at Froome boggles the mind.
or actually, coming from you, it doesnt really.