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darnellrm wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:32 pm
Do you race with the tubeless setup? What is your normal kph on a ride?
Since you ask, usually 30kph-ish, depending on the type of ride obv, so 39.3kph on the club 10 last evening on TT bike (pro one tubeless 23/25).

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What pressure do you run in your 23/25mm TT setup?

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Back to Sagan's bike. I love this pic:

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themidge wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:51 pm
wingguy wrote:
themidge wrote:If I am 60kg (which I'm not) and you are 65kg (I dunno, are you?), and we are riding up a hill at 5w/kg, we will go exactly the same speed because we are both making 5w/kg, we just approach it from different angles. You may produce more power, but I am lighter, they cancel out.
But gravity isn't the only factor you're working against. Until it gets really steep, wind resistance is still a large factor.(And if you've got a decent headwind it's still a big factor even when it is really steep). So the bigger guy with the same w/kg but more total watts actually still has an advantage in overcoming all those factors that aren't gravity.
See first point.
Nothing in your first point addresses this, unless it was "We're not talking about drag". In which case you're not talking about anything that's applicable to reality, so what's the point?

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It was 'we're not talking about drag' and I've already explained why it is applicable. Weight may not be important all the time, but it is sometimes, which is why I replied to Tobin in the first place. Remember what we're talking about in the first place?

I'm intrigued, what is the king of semantics going to say next?

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Miller wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:16 pm
Ghost234 wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 6:41 am
For PR: You are running low pressures and hitting many uneven surfaces at a high rate of speed. Not to mention you are absolutely railing corners that the tire will occasionally "flop". Running tubeless on a course like that raises the potential to burp.
No offence but this is nonsense. I have been running tubeless for 3 years and have yet to experience the mythical burp. Yes I have had tubeless tyres damaged by being slashed by flints but I have never had the tyre randomly lift a bead and expel air. It just doesn't happen.

I started with tubeless 23mm and pretty soon experienced sealant actually doing what it was supposed to do. Rapidly moved up to 25mm, lovely at 70psi, and lately have been running G-One Speed (nominal 30mm) on my new d*sc bike and absolutely adore them. Smooth as anything at 50psi and I don't feel I have given up 0.1 kph of speed, gained speed if anything, while having puncture protection just worlds better than anything I ever had when I still put rubber airbags inside my tyres.
I've burped quite a few MTB and CX tires on racing and training rides. It all depends on pressure and how you lean the bike. Anyone that races MTB at a cat 2 or above level will likely have experienced at least one burp in their time.

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themidge wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 7:30 pm
It was 'we're not talking about drag' and I've already explained why it is applicable.
If you're not talking about drag, you're not talking about the real world. If you're not talking about drag, what is in in the 'flat' scenario that is stopping your hypothetical Joaquim Rodriguez from breaking every bicycle speed record there is? Clearly, in the flat scenario which you brought up, you are talking about drag. So if you are talking about drag in the flat scenario, why would you want to ignore it in the climbing scenario?
Weight may not be important all the time, but it is sometimes,
And drag is important all the time. If you want to talk about what really makes people faster then you can't wish it away. In the real world, a heavier system with the same watts per kilo is faster, even uphill.

If you want to talk about who is faster in an imaginary system where gravity is the only thing slowing you down then go ahead - but again I ask the question, what is the point of that discussion?
Remember what we're talking about in the first place? I'm intrigued, what is the king of semantics going to say next?
The king of semantics says this is what you were talking about to begin with "(remember that everything else is assumed to be equal here, I know things like rolling and air resistance can change with weight)". So while you could argue, semantically, that when you said they were assumed to be equal you could have meant they were assumed to be equally zero, it's some weak-ass semantics. Because in every other case in which they are equal and non-zero, you were wrong. The heavier guy with equal watts/kg is faster.


Look, you're obviously a smart kid, but you currently have two problems that come with being a kid. You think you've got it all figured out already, and you think that anyone disagreeing with you is attacking you. Work on those you'll go a long way :beerchug:

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AJS914 wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:30 pm
Back to Sagan's bike. I love this pic:

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Agree, pretty hilarious. And Sagan's tires look huge in that picture. I know they are a claimed 28mm, but I wonder if they run larger? I have 32c tires on my disc road bike now and they measure 30mm but look every bit as big as the tires in that picture.

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@wingguy:
I suppose this discussion is ultimately meaningless, of course aerodynamics are the most important factor to consider when trying to go faster on a bike, I know that.
This discussion has sort of strayed from my original point that I made to Tobin, partly due to my own c*cking up :D, so I will rephrase it, if I may:
A heavier rider putting out 5w/kg will not always go faster than a lighter one also putting out 5w/kg, because sometimes the effects of air resitsance are small enough that the riders' power and weight are the only significant things which affect their speed. In that situation, 5w/kg is 5w/kg and that is that, they go at the same speed.

I don't see your disagreement with me as an attack. I enjoy debate, and I will always admit when I am wrong.

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themidge wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:18 pm
so I will rephrase it, if I may:
Yes, you may indeed rephrase to something completely different in meaning and intent to what you originally said :wink:

That's good enough.

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Well, at least you now know what I meant, and perhaps should have said in the first place. Goodnight.

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SUCH a long discussion to get to what I would have said if I had gotten in on this earlier.

Me and wifey have very similar w/kg. On our road bikes, we have similar climbing, but I win the flats.

In tri you see it all the time: the big folks can win the bike splits on the normal flat straight tri courses, but then they lose out on the run where weight matters again. Smaller folks with similar w/kg don't go as fast unless their bikes are set up much better.

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Toby wrote:
Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:32 pm
SUCH a long discussion to get to what I would have said if I had gotten in on this earlier.

Me and wifey have very similar w/kg. On our road bikes, we have similar climbing, but I win the flats.

In tri you see it all the time: the big folks can win the bike splits on the normal flat straight tri courses, but then they lose out on the run where weight matters again. Smaller folks with similar w/kg don't go as fast unless their bikes are set up much better.
+1 The smaller rider has a greater surface area ration in aero terms so suffers on the flats. On climbs, they have a greater p/w ratio and due to lower speed, aero less of a factor.
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Its very simple.

Uphill Watts/kg wins.

Flat pure Watts/CdA wins.

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cunn1n9 wrote:
Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:57 am
Its very simple.

Uphill Watts/kg wins.

Flat pure Watts/CdA wins.
If it was very simple, then so many in this thread wouldn't be wrong. CdA matters as long as you're moving forward. On a 3% gradient, if rider A weighs 70 kilos and puts out 280w with a CdA of 0.3, they will travel at 28.2 kph. If Rider B weighs 70kg and puts out 265w with a CdA 0.25, then they will also travel at 28.2 kph. Obviously this diminishes as the gradient gets steeper but for many, 3% grade can be considered uphill, even if moderate.

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