ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby Ivor » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:47 pm

just eat plenty of fibre and time your farts to precision, reckon that should get a similar boost.
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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby Elliot M » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:50 pm

I can't believe that no-one has called out Joe Friel on this.

[quote][Joe Friel] Here's what he [Dirk] had to say about the race: 'When I crested a hill and started to accelerate, the weights transferred to the rim aiding the acceleration. I would actually feel the weights hit the rim and in some cases it meant I could shift to a bigger gear. It literally is like a small turbo booster.'


http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesblog/blog.html

Not only is this absolute nonsense - the effect as the weights move to the rim would be to slow the wheel's rotation down* - felt as a reduced acceleration, but it also contradicts the site which says the advantages are at the opposite points of the cycle:

[quote]One can feel it coming out of a downhill or going into an uphill -- Joe Friel
(OK, assuming he means one can feel a benefit at these points)
http://www.active-spoke.com/

* you can test this - go to your local kids' playground, go for a ride on a roundabout and see what happens as you move your weight from the centre to the edge and back again.
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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby Andrew G » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:41 pm

[quote="-Adam-"]I'm fitting a special turbine in my bottom bracket, and compressed air in my down tube. So that in the last kilometre, all I have to do is let the air go and wham... and instant 500w boost to my power output. See ya!

Do you watch Braniac as well then :D . Fire extinguishers lashed to your frame, that's what you want.
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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby -Adam- » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:47 pm

[quote="Andrew G"][quote="-Adam-"]I'm fitting a special turbine in my bottom bracket, and compressed air in my down tube. So that in the last kilometre, all I have to do is let the air go and wham... and instant 500w boost to my power output. See ya!

Do you watch Braniac as well then :D . Fire extinguishers lashed to your frame, that's what you want.


Nope, that was just the level of conversation after I got dropped from my first race last year! lol
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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby Mike I » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:58 pm

[quote]I would actually feel the weights hit the rim and in some cases it meant I could shift to a bigger gear.


I might be old-fashioned, but I don't want to feel anything hitting my rim :shock: ever.

As for being able to shift to a bigger gear when cresting a hill, well, who'd have thought it :roll: ?
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Re: ive got 500 pounds to blow on wheels

Postby Toks » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:54 am

[quote="Mike I"][quote]I would actually feel the weights hit the rim and in some cases it meant I could shift to a bigger gear.


I might be old-fashioned, but I don't want to feel anything hitting my rim :shock: ever.
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