Support Vehicle Pollution
04-12-22, 08:02 PM
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Support Vehicle Pollution
I wonder what it's like riding for 6 hours with dozens of cars & motor cycles putting out exhaust in front of you the whole time.
Or Paris Roubaix with all that dust getting into your lungs.
Good place for electric vehicles.
Or Paris Roubaix with all that dust getting into your lungs.
Good place for electric vehicles.
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And that's with modern fuel-injected vehicles. I sometimes watch older race movies and think of all the carbureted (or two-stroke) exhaust from those C&V motorcycles! 
04-12-22, 08:40 PM
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The effect is pretty trivial, I'd imagine. One thing we learned in the pandemic is that even with only modest winds, turbulent mixing is your friend.
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04-13-22, 04:12 AM
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I'm pretty sure it's healthier by an order of magnitude to be in the pro peloton all day in the most over-vehicled race in the calendar than it is to be in a typical rush hour commute.
IDK about dust at Roubaix, Strade Bianchi, etc., but I imagine particulates are kinder than pollutants.
IDK about dust at Roubaix, Strade Bianchi, etc., but I imagine particulates are kinder than pollutants.
04-13-22, 05:27 AM
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https://www.lung.org/lung-health-dis...okup/silicosis
Modern gas vehicles are very low emissions, I do wonder if some of the support vehicles are diesel. Then the motor bikes are probably a little dirtier. Ugh what about all those idiots with flares and such?
I wonder more about rider emissions
it's gotta be pretty funky the third week of a GT, just thinking of the trauma your gut goes through.
04-13-22, 06:40 AM
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About gravel dust. silicate dust is nasty stuff, but mostly it's a cumulative effect. People with occuapational exposures have to worry. A few hours of very dusty gravel week in and week out would be bad news. But i encounter it every now and again, I'm not too worried.
I guess you could bring an N95 mask on your gravel rides...but I wouldn't.
Really, the vehicle exhausts during a race are a trivial health thing, at most.
I guess you could bring an N95 mask on your gravel rides...but I wouldn't.
Really, the vehicle exhausts during a race are a trivial health thing, at most.
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Mmm I don't think so. I ride a lot of gravel and worry often about dust. Silicosis is a very real thing - noxious gases and vapours much easier for lungs to deal with then microscopic pieces of aggregate.
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-dis...okup/silicosis
Modern gas vehicles are very low emissions, I do wonder if some of the support vehicles are diesel. Then the motor bikes are probably a little dirtier. Ugh what about all those idiots with flares and such?
I wonder more about rider emissions it's gotta be pretty funky the third week of a GT, just thinking of the trauma your gut goes through.
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-dis...okup/silicosis
Modern gas vehicles are very low emissions, I do wonder if some of the support vehicles are diesel. Then the motor bikes are probably a little dirtier. Ugh what about all those idiots with flares and such?
I wonder more about rider emissions
it's gotta be pretty funky the third week of a GT, just thinking of the trauma your gut goes through.Me next dusty ride:
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04-19-22, 01:20 PM
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they wore masks in at least some of the races.
04-20-22, 09:35 AM
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the riders survived cycling in the semi-recent olympics in the pristine, industrial chinese air-mostly. there are a few still unaccounted for.
04-20-22, 11:00 AM
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Unless you're at the front of the peleton, none of the air is fresh.
