Take the Black Dog Stock Bike Challenge!
Greg “Stick” LaVick posted a blazing 15:52. Stock bike, no deep section wheels, no aero helmet, no skin-suit. I may formalize this challenge so start training now.
Here it is (thanks to Bruce Braesemle for your time)
Pretty simple. Set bike on it and adjust the bike so the center of the spindle is in the right place. You can instantly see where your saddle set-back is in relation to the spindle (5 cm set back required) and the extensions in relation to the spindle as well (80cm from spindle center to extension ends by official Bruce’s claim). I think the confusion and headache comes from the extension measurement. Some say end of the extensions where the shifter goes in, and others (according to Ian Stanford) measure to the pivot point of the shifters. This is about 1.5cm deviation in ruling. However, if you’ve ever installed shifters, extensions etc it’s a real rat-fuck if you have to make on the spot race-day adjustments. The problem is compounded for shorter/taller people who, if their bike fails the test, have to have physiological measurements which are even more invasive and time consuming.
My bike falls 0.5 cm shy at the saddle and at the extensions meaning that i’d have to adjust everything back 0.5 cm to conform to the UCI and I’ll do that the minute the UCI sends someone over to mow my fuckin lawn.
Fairgrounds!!
thanks to the Cat6 peeps.. from the fund raiser event at Bull Dog through last night.. it was great. I’m sure we’ll be thinking of those races while riding the trainers in 6 months.
Zimmerman, Bergman, Bjorn, myslef and Patty Cakes burying the hatchet on the field.
Alex Dobbertin
Snide, Stick, Patty Cakes and Bergman on the night I missed due to illness allowing Hanna a rare win.
Wrenshaw time-trial, Stage 1, Duluth Stage Race.
Thanks to H-wood and Kristy for the great vid. This was the toughest stretch of road heading north toward the finish. Slightly false flat, rough pavement with a headwind off my right shoulder. Ian had just caught and passed me and i had come off the gear about 10 minute prior so i was in “minimize-my-losses” mode. A not so great start to a great series.
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HED beanie for first correct answer..
I finished off seven straight days of racing last night at the TNT TT in Medina. I managed a rare win on a sluggish night beating Dan Casper by 20 seconds. Our TNT battle is just beginning.
My series started at last week’s Black Dog TT, followed by the season opener at the NSC Velodrome (winning cat 3 omnium), then off to the Duluth Stage Race and the Wrenshaw TT where i was humbled by a blazing Ian Stanford, followed by a hard earned win at South Range RR in a 2-up sprint with a future star Eric Thompson, followed by a mentally brutal 6 laps at the Lakewood RR where mother nature won, followed by a well played team win by Stick at Cloquet Crit. My legs hurt, my bikes need a cleaning and a fortune cookie says there’s a bar ride in my near future.
