2021 PRO thread

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maquisard
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by maquisard

That is genuinely amazing!

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by Cycomanic

maquisard wrote:That is genuinely amazing!
What is also amazing is that 265W corresponds to 42.75 km/h. It's easy to forget how much one can reduce aerodynamic drag on a TT bike.

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Cycomanic wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:54 am
What is also amazing is that 265W corresponds to 42.75 km/h. It's easy to forget how much one can reduce aerodynamic drag on a TT bike.
Actually that's a "fairly" standard CdA, in the ballpark of 0.205 to 0.215, not bad, but nowhere close to a really good one either, which would be sub 0.20.

Doesn't take away anything from his achievement, though, both from the wattage perspective as well as the ability to hold the position for that long.
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by Dan Gerous

Back to the Pro thread being about pros: Dylan Groenewegen won stage 1 of the Tour de Wallonie yesterday, Fabio Jakobsen won stage 2 today, first win for both since that Tour of Pologne crash... In both cases, the other finished quite far back, maybe they're just trying to avoid each other as much as possible.

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mrlobber wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:18 am
Cycomanic wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:54 am
What is also amazing is that 265W corresponds to 42.75 km/h. It's easy to forget how much one can reduce aerodynamic drag on a TT bike.
Actually that's a "fairly" standard CdA, in the ballpark of 0.205 to 0.215, not bad, but nowhere close to a really good one either, which would be sub 0.20.

Doesn't take away anything from his achievement, though, both from the wattage perspective as well as the ability to hold the position for that long.
Don't forget that it's a position he held for 24h. That makes it VERY impressive.
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Dan Gerous wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:28 pm
Back to the Pro thread being about pros: Dylan Groenewegen won stage 1 of the Tour de Wallonie yesterday, Fabio Jakobsen won stage 2 today, first win for both since that Tour of Pologne crash... In both cases, the other finished quite far back, maybe they're just trying to avoid each other as much as possible.
Strasser is a pro. Just in ultra cycling.
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by Dan Gerous

jever98 wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:13 pm
Dan Gerous wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:28 pm
Back to the Pro thread being about pros: Dylan Groenewegen won stage 1 of the Tour de Wallonie yesterday, Fabio Jakobsen won stage 2 today, first win for both since that Tour of Pologne crash... In both cases, the other finished quite far back, maybe they're just trying to avoid each other as much as possible.
Strasser is a pro. Just in ultra cycling.
Haaa I see, didn't know there was such a thing, I thought it was like those everesting things.

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by jever98

I guess it depends on how you define pro. He does it full time and earns his living with it, which makes him pro, I guess. Has won RAAM 6 times and has all sorts of ultra endurance records. Definitely niche and a very different quality to World Tour Pros, but damn impressive.
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by tymon_tm

it's like with those double-, triple-, quadruple-... you name it.. ironman ultra-triathletes. it's a different, perhaps less structured version of 'pro', but it's 'pro' nonetheless.
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tymon_tm wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:29 pm
it's like with those double-, triple-, quadruple-... you name it.. ironman ultra-triathletes. it's a different, perhaps less structured version of 'pro', but it's 'pro' nonetheless.
It's not really pro unless some bureaucrat in Switzerland tells you how high your socks can be.

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by LeDuke

Kind of weird to see GvA working as a domestique and dragging the field along with 200km to go.


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by sychen

LeDuke wrote:Kind of weird to see GvA working as a domestique and dragging the field along with 200km to go.


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I welcome it.. No more gaudy gold on him or his bikes. It's not I don't like gva.. Just hated all that tasteless gold.

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Oh well.
Oh well II: G has crashed. Plus ca change...
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by sychen

Thanks to Mr Liggett, the Sagan clan gains a new brother Tadej.

G crashed on the same shoulder.... Must of been cursed.


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GVA ate Tony Martin before the race.

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