02-08-2012
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I got a link to this video today (sorry if it's a repost) but I was very surprised at the beating those bikes/wheels are taking!
http://www.cyclingdirt.org/speaker/6...of-a-Road-Bike
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02-08-2012
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I could never see myself inflicting that type of abuse to my road bike, not to mention I'm definately not skilled enough to do most of that 
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02-08-2012
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IMO, with the skill and finesse of those riders the bikes aren't being subjected to anything abusive at all. I've gotten pinch flats, dented and even bent rims hitting objects or potholes. That's putting much greater stress on the bike and wheels that what these guys are doing.
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I'm guessing they are running 28mm tubulars. With clinchers I think they would be getting impact punctures
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Well, FWIW, isn't that a cyclocross bike? Either way, it's cool and they are so skilled they're not beating it up.... although it makes you wonder what the bike they used to hone their skills looks like!
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02-08-2012
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Okay, you are in a pace line on a group ride. You come to a big ol' pothole and have to just crash over it. Otherwise you might cause a crash of a different kind. I would say everything in that video amount to less 'abuse' than one such pothole.
As an aside: I took a pretty good Lemond road bike and rode on some forest roads with slag, and forest roads with limestone gravel. It had 25 mm tires. I was thinking of getting a cross bike and remembered I used dept. store ten speeds on worse to no ill effect. Not even all that many flats. So I wondered how it would be not having done that for many years.
Well, guess what? It wasn't all that bad. A bit touchier handling on some steep sections with loose gravel vs a real MTB though actually rather fun. Now of course I didn't just bomb all sections with no attention like I might on a susser MTB. Seemed okay so I continued to ride those a bit all last summer. Eventually put 300 miles on them with that bike. Not one flat. I did get one minor scratch on the downtube. The tires showed a bit of scuffing from it. Convinced me a cross bike would fill some needs on both regular road use and use on these fire roads, gravel roads I ride. So I don't really need a MTB.
What I see in this video, at least with riders of that skill does not look in the least abusive. If I tried at least some of it then it might be only because I lack their skill.
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02-09-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Camilo
Well, FWIW, isn't that a cyclocross bike? Either way, it's cool and they are so skilled they're not beating it up.... although it makes you wonder what the bike they used to hone their skills looks like!
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Since they have caliper brakes I say it's road bikes with what looks like 28mm knobby tubulars, or has Neilpride designed in clearance for 32mm?
Slam dunking a pothole is far more abusive than this.
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I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
There’s not a wheel I’m more excited to ride. By my math, I should be able to double the length of my pulls at the front of the pack, which would be an increase of, like, three or four seconds.
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So it wasn't tubulars after all. Thanks.
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Actually the autobus broke down somewhere on the Mortirolo.
They do anything just to win a salami in ridiculous races.
I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
There’s not a wheel I’m more excited to ride. By my math, I should be able to double the length of my pulls at the front of the pack, which would be an increase of, like, three or four seconds.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kbwh
Since they have caliper brakes I say it's road bikes with what looks like 28mm knobby tubulars, or has Neilpride designed in clearance for 32mm?
Slam dunking a pothole is far more abusive than this.
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even if the frame had clearance for 32's, they'd never fit in the brakes...
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02-09-2012
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Do those guys really need such deep rims? And all those gears seem overkill. I mean were those wimps even in the big chainring?
Nice stuff.
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02-09-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cxwrench
even if the frame had clearance for 32's, they'd never fit in the brakes...
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Actually the autobus broke down somewhere on the Mortirolo.
They do anything just to win a salami in ridiculous races.
I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
There’s not a wheel I’m more excited to ride. By my math, I should be able to double the length of my pulls at the front of the pack, which would be an increase of, like, three or four seconds.
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02-09-2012
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Hi, neat video! Really like the smooth stair climbing! The bleacher climbing was something too.
Later, Axlenut
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02-09-2012
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Wow. So much for flimsy carbon wheels.
One thing, though. The riders are using their arms and legs as shock absorbers, which largely removes their body weight from the impact of their landings. When numpties go over potholes and don't get their @$$es off the saddle then their body weight is included in the impact the tires have to absorb.
Hence why fools can wreck a wheel just by riding over a 1 inch ledge.
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02-09-2012
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Those are awesome videos, thanks for posting!!
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