Gold Coast Comm Games
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The Aussie time was 5sec ahead of our girls which is fucking huge in terms of this kind of race, so they'll probably smoke us in the final, but still yay, a guaranteed medal is always a great start.
I really enjoy the Velodrome events, once they've weeded out the extras and left with the stars. And have to say, in terms of world class, cycling is probably one of the CG sports where they have a truly quality field.
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@tim said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
I don't know how anyone can watch swimming or cycling. So fucking boring.
Track & Field events are the only ones with any appeal.
Some of us aren't attuned to the wild emotional ride of being a Blues supporter!
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men will be a bit disappointed with that ride.. died horribly at the end. Poms nearly blew it tho.. they were very untidy SO close to making a mistake that would have killed them
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mens pursuit team has been disqualified. that is an absolute farking mozza.
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@williethewaiter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
mens pursuit team has been disqualified. that is an absolute farking mozza.
Apparently, according to the stuff feed, "They were slated for a bronze medal match against Canada at 10.12pm, but were rubbed out after the judges found the irregularity with one of their bikes."
I dunno why, looked good to me
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@mokey said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Dawkins, Webster and Mitchell set a new CG record in the men's team sprint. Will be riding for gold.
that was absolute perfection. what made it even better was watching Aus completely fuck their effort up!
as an aside if you ever happen to be swinging past cambridge you should pop in to see them training - they wind it up behind a motorbike at just under 90kph - which on a 250m track is bloody impressive to watch and one of the cooler things you'll see in sport
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@machpants said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@williethewaiter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
mens pursuit team has been disqualified. that is an absolute farking mozza.
Apparently, according to the stuff feed, "They were slated for a bronze medal match against Canada at 10.12pm, but were rubbed out after the judges found the irregularity with one of their bikes."
I dunno why, looked good to me
there's basically 3 rules.
- tip of seat needs to be minimum 60mm behind a vertical line thru the middle of the bottom bracket.
- end of aero bars must be within 800mm of that same centre line
- end of aero bars must be 100mm or less than the armrests...
can't really imagine which one it would have been.. something must have moved, which could only really be the seat... but that is super unlikely too
scratching my head a bit cause you get measured before and after.
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@machpants said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
I guess something must've moved during the race? As it wasn't picked up before the race?
had to be.. will come out soon.. my coach is over there i'm sure will get somethign on facebook shortly
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bars were 3mm higher than allowed - sounds like it's broken that 10cm rule i referred to.
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@williethewaiter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
as an aside if you ever happen to be swinging past cambridge you should pop in to see them training - they wind it up behind a motorbike at just under 90kph - which on a 250m track is bloody impressive to watch and one of the cooler things you'll see in sport
I spent an hour or so at the Velodrome in Invercargill in Jan and watched some young guys training. Two things stood out to me: (1) they go much faster than you think, and (2) how steep the track is at each end.
I can only imagine how quick the elite cyclists travel. I've driven past the Avantidrome so often and have thought about stopping in.
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@bovidae said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@williethewaiter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
as an aside if you ever happen to be swinging past cambridge you should pop in to see them training - they wind it up behind a motorbike at just under 90kph - which on a 250m track is bloody impressive to watch and one of the cooler things you'll see in sport
I spent an hour or so at the Velodrome in Invercargill in Jan and watched some young guys training. Two things stood out to me: (1) they go much faster than you think, and (2) how steep the track is at each end.
I can only imagine how quick the elite cyclists travel. I've driven past the Avantidrome so often and have thought about stopping in.
they publish their training schedules on the avanti drome site. cafe good and track outside good for kids..
yeh banking pretty steep.. only arsed off once on it.. winding down at nationals after finishing pursuit last year.. next thing i knew i was sliding down on my arse ha. most embarassing. -
that is a shocker for an organisation like that.
doesn't explain how it got measured ok pre-race... the exact reason they measure it before and after!
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Yeah, I went onto TVNZ on demand. Toni Street is annoying at the best of times with her fucking inane questions, but for a segment on the cycling, they showed the women's team pursuit qualifier and then moved onto getting some before game commentary for the netball vs Uganda. Plus a whole lot of promo and ads.
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@williethewaiter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
that is a shocker for an organisation like that.
doesn't explain how it got measured ok pre-race... the exact reason they measure it before and after!
As a complete guess on my part this could be something as simple as the position of the axle in the fork dropouts. There is quite likely a regulation so that fork design can't be used to overly change the head angle of the bike geometry.
If you attach a wheel in slightly the wrong spot in the dropout you could tip outside the measurement. It is possible that there was slight movement during the race but that is a result of a mechanics mistake in torque on the axle.
If there is one thing that cyclists of any format know is absolute it is that UCI officials are complete and utter pricks.
I have seen downhill riders DQ'd for not wearing long sleeves when it was written in the race fine print but allowed all weekend during practice and qualification with officials in attendance.
