wens

I'm catching up on world's, just watched the second? Round of the women's keirin. Ellis lighter (sp?) looks like she's a foot taller than anyone else and may as well just lead it out, since she's not getting any draft anyhow.

Dalai

Doing the same. Just noticed in the Madison at 40 that a Swiss rider has his PC7 on the bars! Couldn't tell if the screen was taped over - could still see the Set Mode buttons.

wens

The Czech rider had one during the women's scratch. Couldn't see if hers was taped over either, but I was surprised regardless.

Also a lot of bars way wider than shoulders in that women's race, and Laura Trott seems to be running the narrowest ones. I'd be interested in data on that, because some of the set ups look like they're air funnels.

MrMinty

Do they not have a womens madison?

carleton

I'm not familiar with the women's endurance field. But, I think a lot of them are road pros. I'm pretty sure that the argument is, "I ride 42s on my road bike. I want the exact same bars on my track bike." and it's difficult for a coach to get them to switch.

Poppit

Trott has a track background so was bought up on narrow bars, as are most of the Brits, Would you benefit from narrower handlebars? - Cycling Weekly

gtrob

no but there is talk of it. Even talk of a mixed field (sounds less likely)

Poppit

I suppose it's worthwhile bearing in mind that you rotate your wrists outwards on the track which gives you a wider base than a normal road position where you rotate them inwards.

MrMinty

A mixed Madison would be good, but as you say, very unlikely. Maybe a mixed Omnium would work with men in some events and women in others, and the total scores combined?


I'm sure they did a handicapped mixed Mens/Womens longest lap at one of the Revolution races, but I'm not 100% sure how it worked

gl98115

Look at Jonathan Dibben in the points race. He has super narrow bars and rides with his wrists rolled inward most of the time.

Hida Yanra

I rode 37 c-t-c bars on the track, always had wrists rotated in- kept my super narrow/shrugged shoulders.
It's not a big deal once you acclimate to it.

Brian Ratliff

Just catching up on watching races... Don't know if anyone caught this, but with Bradley Wiggins and Cavendish in the Madison, did anyone see what happened when they took their lap with 34 laps to go?

France missed their exchange (49:03 into the video). The French rider #1 had just finished covering an attack by Spain and then the French team missed their exchange forcing French #1 (red number) to stay in another two laps. When Bradley attacked, he split the next French exchange and got a gap, after which he immediately threw Cavendish into the race to extend the gap. Pretty good racing action. None of this was by accident; they'd been marking the French team since 45 laps to go. Pretty sure Cavendish saw the missed exchange, told Bradley as he was being thrown in and Bradley attacked right when the French team was at their most vulnerable.

After that, nobody helped France chase, sealing the deal. Good race to watch!

700wheel

Yes an exciting race; as I recall the UK team got help from the Spanish team in gaining their lap