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Why would they have to do a risky "test run" to find out if motors make you go faster in a time trial? That'd be both reckless and completely unnecessary. One would think they'd rather test it during training...Tienus said:In the Lotto race report there is mention of a crash (Battaglin) and three flat tires (Roosen, Teunissen, Van Asbroeck). No mention of Roglic which does not mean he did not have one but I'm sure they would have loved to use that excuse to.
http://www.teamlottojumbo.nl/wielrennen/valpartij-en-lekke-banden-tekenen-strade-bianchi-voor-team-lottonljumbo
Both Strade Bianchi and the Giro are organised by RCS sport. So is Tirreno-Adriatico which had an interesting incident during the time trial. Tom Leezer from Lotto-Jumbo managed to get the fifth fastest time out of nowhere.
You can see the result here at 1:21:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgdcMgxmXY
Lotto-Jumbo called the organisation to tell them they did not time him correctly and 50 seconds was added to his time. This could have been a test run.
http://www.wielerupdate.nl/wielernieuws/35226/lottonl-jumbo-trekt-aan-bel-na-te-goede-uitslag-leezer/
In the article Roglic is also mentioned as being in good shape but at this stage he is still considered a climber.
sniper said:maltiv, don't get hung up on the *how* or *why*.
*how* did Lance beat the tests?
*why* was Lance pre-1999 not a GT contender?
Not knowing the answers to that means little.
no example? shocker.if you or tienus insits on make all sorts of claims what might have taken place and proceed to argue as if these are facts
agreed.GJB123 said:No but it does make clear that in certain cases the event is highly unlikely to have taken place.
what are we supposed to be seeing there?nogav1ca said:I would just like to add oufeh's twit, with the same picture, but a temperature scale, where difference between the hottest and the coldest part of the scale is only 10 degrees.
https://twitter.com/oufeh/status/744633393829257216
nogav1ca said:It's only a picture. Same one as posted before from documentary, but it has a temperature scale on a right side, where you can see the coldest part (dark blue/black) of picture has 9,3 °C and the hottest part (bright yellow/white) of picture has 19,8 °C.
Personally thermal imaging would more or less 100 % proof of motorised bikes if either temperature (difference) would be really high or we would have one long shot where you could see certain part heating up and cooling down.
thanks. hadn't seen this.Tienus said:From those pictures its not very clear. If you watch the video you will see the difference with the other riders.
Starting around 18:30
https://youtu.be/e0s2yo6ws9U?t=18m30s