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A Professional Cycling Sprint Looks Absolutely Terrifying From Inside The Pack

  • 20-06-2014 11:03pm
    #1
    Rucking_Fetard
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    The last few miles of a professional bike race are a chaotic ballet as riders jostle for position just inches apart at over 40 MPH.



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  • #2
    Doc07
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    Terrifying but exciting. Would be great motivation on a training spin having John Degenkolb follow you screaming 'go, go, go!'


  • #3
    Ole Rodrigo
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    Looks thrilling. I'm not buying it though.

    Flat lensed cameras - like the GoPro - distort depth of field, so that it looks like the subject is going faster that it actually is.


  • #4
    Bristolscale7
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    Thanks for posting! I hope that this type of camera work gets built into live coverage.


  • #5
    doozerie
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    ror_74 wrote: »
    Looks thrilling. I'm not buying it though.

    Flat lensed cameras - like the GoPro - distort depth of field, so that it looks like the subject is going faster that it actually is.

    In solo time trials the pros regularly average over 50kph for an hour or more of measured effort, the speed of a bunch in the lead up to a sprint finish will inevitably be faster than that as riders go full bore at the front before peeling off utterly spent.

    I don't know what actual speed they typically average for the last few kilometres of a sprinters stage, but it's certainly extremely fast.


  • #6
    Borderfox
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    I thought it was the new bike lane on the quays :)


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  • #7
    Dermot Illogical
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    I watched it waiting for something to happen, but nothing much did.


  • #8
    Rovi
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    doozerie wrote: »
    In solo time trials the pros regularly average over 50kph for an hour or more of measured effort, the speed of a bunch in the lead up to a sprint finish will inevitably be faster than that as riders go full bore at the front before peeling off utterly spent.

    I don't know what actual speed they typically average for the last few kilometres of a sprinters stage, but it's certainly extremely fast.

    I'm pretty sure I head the commentators on the Tour de Swiss a few days ago talk about this, and they were saying that on a flattish/straightish run in, the lead-out trains will be doing around 60km/h for the last few kilometers, and the final sprint could nudge up to 70kmh or thereabouts.


  • #9
    fixie fox
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    ror_74 wrote: »
    Looks thrilling. I'm not buying it though.

    Flat lensed cameras - like the GoPro - distort depth of field, so that it looks like the subject is going faster that it actually is.
    It also makes everybody seem farther away from each other than they really are.


  • #10
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    doozerie wrote: »
    In solo time trials the pros regularly average over 50kph for an hour or more of measured effort, the speed of a bunch in the lead up to a sprint finish will inevitably be faster than that as riders go full bore at the front before peeling off utterly spent.

    I don't know what actual speed they typically average for the last few kilometres of a sprinters stage, but it's certainly extremely fast.

    Yes, not actually disputing the speeds but rather the falsification of perspective of the video. In reality, although they are fast, its not quite that fast.

    Watching the Giro come up the quays last month I was surprised at how slow they seemed to be going when all it was was me being used to watching races through a camera. Although TV cameras aren't as egregious in their misrepresentation as GoPros.


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