Goldsprints Take 2

TinyExplosions

On in the Bernard Shaw tonight from 6 -be there or be square (or be in the UK like I am!)

Lumen

I'm in.

edit: I assume it's here.

TinyExplosions

Yup, that's where it is -Karma will be down there running it from 6-9ish I think

niceonetom

Can't make it this evening. Damn.

Good luck Lumen. Do us proud.

Caroline_ie

Can't come out - must clean my bikes and do some mechanics and try to grow a few more inches for the Dec 5th competition

Go Lumen!

lukester

Go Lumen! Shave off that winter growth and rock the Kaiku gear and Oakleys. And no smiling, all night.

Lumen

Oh crap, the weight of expectation.

I should point out that I'm on my third successive course of antibiotics, and I haven't seen a hill in months.

I was only planning to go along and watch.... :pac:

lukester

Sandbagger.

Lumen

Lumen wrote: »

I should point out that I'm on my third successive course of antibiotics

lukester wrote: »

Sandbagger.

Well that was fun

Practice: 28.something
Run #1: 29.something

Then the room started to spin, then I was outside kneeling on the wet cobbles, vomiting copiously.

I'll be back! But not tonight...

Guinness, antibiotics, pedalling furiously. Pick two.

Thanks to Beasty for "holding my hair back" and offering a lift home.

Nice to meet you Karma!

Chips Lovell

Just got a text from petethedrummer, who said he won tonight's Goldsprints. Well done Pete.

Caroline_ie

woohoo one win for boards!

Beasty

Winning time was 25.81 - Pete blew away all opposition.

I'm claiming the vets award with my time of 32.5 (although I was beaten soundly on two occasions by a very ill Lumen):)

Hope you are feeling better Lumen - as you said, that particular cocktail did not mix

Thanks Karma and the other guys for putting this on

petethedrummer

My greatest achievement since second place in the under-10s Credit Union Poster competition, all the commuter races weren't for nothing. Its an odd sensation cycling against no resistance. Nice to meet Beasty, Karma and a couple of others whose names I didn't get.

DirkVoodoo

Nice job Pete, you should add "worn by goldsprints champion" to your shoe sale, might jack the price up!

So is that Boards 2 -0 FGSS?

sy

Great stuff Pete and well done.

@ Lumen well done too

@ Beasty might challenge you for the vet title at some stage (if I can get back on my bike!)

Lumen

petethedrummer wrote: »

My greatest achievement since second place in the under-10s Credit Union Poster competition, all the commuter races weren't for nothing. Its an odd sensation cycling against no resistance

Herioc effort Pete, well done. I make that 210rpm average*

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

So is that Boards 2 -0 FGSS?

No, I think Tom got "joint 3rd" last time.

* 38kph in 36/25, my lowest commuting gear. Not that I'm intending to train for the next one. Oh no.

niceonetom

Well done Pete!

Just to add some spice to the broth; the blorg did quietly whisper that he was completely confident that he "would have destroyed" you had he not sabotaged the machine. Seems he underestimated you. There'll have to be a head-to-head at the next one.

I'm glad that you didn't get to have go the first night - you would have beaten me easily. And thanks for rescuing us from the shame of Lumen's performance. Never show weakness in front of the hipsters, Lumen. Never.

@Lumen - I've calculated an avg cadence of 176rpm and DirkVoodoo agreed with my formula. ? Maybe I've got the gearing wrong. I think it's 44x14 but I could be wrong... how did you arrive at 210?

And what's with the inverted commas? I did come joint 3rd.

Lumen

niceonetom wrote: »

And thanks for rescuing us from the shame of Lumen's performance. Never show weakness in front of the hipsters, Lumen. Never.

What can I say? I am weak; I was goaded into it.

niceonetom wrote: »

@Lumen - I've calculated an avg cadence of 176rpm and DirkVoodoo agreed with my formula. ? Maybe I've got the gearing wrong. I think it's 44x14 but I could be wrong... how did you arrive at 210?

I was working from this post:

TinyExplosions wrote: »

The bikes are (or were last I saw em) Kona Paddywaggons -the gearing is the stock 42-16

It really is a test of cadence, so I reckon Blorg could have it, though 500m isn't a trivial distance!

500m in 25 seconds is 20 m/s, /0.28 = 71.43kph. Sheldon says 100rpm @ 42-16 = 33kph, so 71.43/33*100 = 216rpm.

Using 44x14 I get 71.43/39.5*100 = 181rpm.

niceonetom wrote: »

And what's with the inverted commas? I did come joint 3rd.

To raise your ire.

niceonetom

Ok. I was using this post as a basis for using this formula of my own devising:
((Distance / M progression) / T) x 60 = Avg. cadence
the rabbit gives 6.6m dev for 44x14 and 5.5 for 42x16. That would mean avg cadence of 218 for 25secs on the lighter gearing. Seems unlikely.

Someone count the revolutions in one of the videos!

Lumen wrote: »

To raise your ire.

Not hard, but well done anyway.

Lumen

niceonetom wrote: »

That would mean avg cadence of 218 for 25secs on the lighter gearing.

OK, so our numbers are probably the same except for tyre circumference errors.

Maybe we should take a Garmin to the next event. I have a cadence sensor lying around spare somewhere (don't need mine with a PT).

niceonetom

Will there be graphs? I like graphs.

sy

What length are the cranks? At those revs should make a difference

steinone

The standard track crank length is 170.
They seemed like 170s to me.
Not trying to put Pete down or anything(great time) but most of dfgss was at an al****at.
Unfortunate timing of the events.

flickerx

steinone, feel free to put him down - they do it here to us all the time, the lycra wearing, epo munching scum that they are.

You see Tom? Two can talk the fightin' talk.

copacetic

Lumen wrote: »

OK, so our numbers are probably the same except for tyre circumference errors.

Maybe we should take a Garmin to the next event. I have a cadence sensor lying around spare somewhere (don't need mine with a PT).

this kind of talk will certainly teach those damn hipsters that they aren't the only cool ones!:D