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Jen's Voights Hour Record Attempt.

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  • #32
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    It's safe as milk. Superior athlete on a vastly superior bike with a significantly greater amount of data and metrics available to him. I'd bet your life on it :D

    They said that about Champagne Fever in what turned out to be his last race. He failed. However, that's not the point I was making. My point was that it's not worth it unless you sink a lot of wad into the bet.


  • #33
    Darkglasses
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    They said that about Champagne Fever in what turned out to be his last race. He failed. However, that's not the point I was making. My point was that it's not worth it unless you sink a lot of wad into the bet.

    Fever? Never heard of him, does he ride cross? :pac:

    I've put an amount that I'm completely satisfied with the risk and return. I bet mainly for enjoyment to be honest, I just enjoy the winning part rather than winning money :)


  • #34
    Beasty
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    Darkglasses wrote: »
    does he ride cross?
    Apparently very so when he lost that last race ....


  • #35
    dragratchet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭dragratchet


    im gonna jump on the trainer and ride along with jensie..see how far i can get in the hour.


  • #36
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Apparently very so when he lost that last race ....

    He made me very cross that day! Cost me a bleeding fortune!


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  • #37
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,687 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    dragratchet wrote: »
    im gonna jump on the trainer and ride along with jensie..see how far i can get in the hour.

    I wouldn't do that, what if you beat him and set new the record and there's no one around to believe you :pac:


  • #38
    Brendan Hennessy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Brendan Hennessy


    Hi all,

    If you guys are as fast at reading as you are at cycling (or doing both together on a trainer) I recommend Edward Pickering's 'The Race against Time' about Obree and Pickering as an aperitif to tonight's attempt. If you've even more time Michael Hutchinson's 'The Hour' is an excellent read too.

    Haven't followed the latest UCI rules but it doesn't sound like Jen's 'Trek' is a keeper of the flame.

    Good luck Voight,

    Brendan


  • #39
    mirrormatrix
    Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭mirrormatrix


    I looked at this article on velo news or whatever and want to clarify something. Are UCI saying that only bikes legal under current track rules are eligible for the hour record? So if Jens bike is subsequently deemed legal by UCI that his record (assuming he gets it) would be stricken from the books? Or if Chris Boardmans aero position suddenly becomes UCI legal that his record would then be retrospectively added as the hour record?

    Sounds like a total clusterf**k by UCI


  • #40
    simonrooneyzaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Out to 4/7 now, some money coming in on 'No'!


  • #41
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    mirrormatrix wrote: »
    I looked at this article on velo news or whatever and want to clarify something. Are UCI saying that only bikes legal under current track rules are eligible for the hour record? So if Jens bike is subsequently deemed legal by UCI that his record (assuming he gets it) would be stricken from the books? Or if Chris Boardmans aero position suddenly becomes UCI legal that his record would then be retrospectively added as the hour record?

    Sounds like a total clusterf**k by UCI
    they also modified the forks by covering the brake hole which under current rules is not allowed


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  • #42
    Mr. Grieves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Mr. Grieves


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    they also modified the forks by covering the brake hole which under current rules is not allowed

    Why does his fork have a brake hole?


  • #43
    Beasty
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    Mr. Grieves wrote: »
    Why does his fork have a brake hole?
    Presume that's a reference to the bike Boardman used, when (again presumably) they were allowed to cover of brake holes and (once again presumably) that was the way the fork had been manufactured (possibly based on a TT bike setup that was legal at the time)


  • #44
    Shedite27
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    simonrooneyzaga wrote: »
    Out to 4/7 now, some money coming in on 'No'!
    I'm on at 4/7!

    Come on Jens!

    Eurosport at 17:30


  • #45
    Pudsy33
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    On for a small stake at 5/6. Baring a crash I think he will do it. I really hope he does, it would be a fitting end to his career.


  • #46
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Mr. Grieves wrote: »
    Why does his fork have a brake hole?

    because its a modified TT frame with TT forks

    actually I wonder will the fork rake be a problem


  • #47
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,795 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    His bike is class. It says
    "I am mother ****ing Jens Voigt"
    "Jens Voigt can break the hour record in under 60mins"
    "Jen's doesn't normally ride in the velodrome because he doesn't lke lapping himself"


  • #48
    pelevin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭pelevin


    It wouldn't be much use though if he broke the hour record in over 60 minutes.


  • #49
    on_the_nickel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭on_the_nickel


    I like Jens, to a point, but his retirement cannot come soon enough. #shutupjens


  • #50
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    His bike is class. It says
    "I am mother ****ing Jens Voigt"

    Only a German would take pride in the fact that he had sex with his mother.


  • #51
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Oh, according to this presenter the record is currently held by a Russian guy, Ondrej Sosenko.

    And here was me thinking it was the Czech rider Ondrej Sosenka :o


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  • #52
    blobbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭blobbie


    How many laps ?

    A gazillion ???


  • #53
    Beasty
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    4 laps per km, so needs 200 to get to 50km


  • #54
    simonrooneyzaga
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    1/3 now on Paddy's. You wonder who they had pricing this market initially? I don't claim to be a cycling expert whatsoever but from a brief scour of the web reading up on the attempt it was definitely nowhere near 5/6.


  • #55
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    simonrooneyzaga wrote: »
    1/3 now on Paddy's. You wonder who they had pricing this market initially? I don't claim to be a cycling expert whatsoever but from a brief scour of the web reading up on the attempt it was definitely nowhere near 5/6.

    Have you seen the specials that they have on Eddie Dunbar and the TDF?


  • #56
    Beasty
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    Bit of a cock-up there by Eurosport showing the "motherf*cker" decal in all its glory ....


  • #57
    Pudsy33
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Bit of a cock-up there by Eurosport showing the "motherf*cker" decal in all its glory ....

    They've shown that clip about 4 times already.


  • #58
    Darkglasses
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    Cycling weekly tweeted that he's aiming for 50.5km, and possibly change that at the half way point.

    Kind of exciting! :)


  • #59
    simonrooneyzaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Have you seen the specials that they have on Eddie Dunbar and the TDF?

    Jesus, high hopes!

    Eddie Dunbar to win a Tour de France stage at anytime of his career 5/4
    Eddie Dunbar to win a Tour de France stage up to 2025 included 9/4
    Eddie Dunbar to win the Tour de France General Classification Outright at anytime of his career 25/1
    Eddie Dunbar to win the Tour de France General Classification Outright up to 2025 included 66/1



    AND HE's OFF!!


  • #60
    Beasty
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    He's losing about 1.5m a lap by not keeping to the black line


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  • #61
    Darkglasses
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    About half a lap ahead of Sosenka


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