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12-04.-2004, 11:42 AM
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LMAO... this was the funniest part
http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedoc...04parrou-002000
Did anyone catch this? A moto also crashed in the Arenburg forest IIRC. - Boyd S. |
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12-04.-2004, 06:03 PM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
I counted two motorcycles that crashed in the forest.
Boyd Speerschneider wrote: > http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedoc...04parrou-002000 > > Did anyone catch this? > A moto also crashed in the Arenburg forest IIRC. > > - Boyd S. |
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13-04.-2004, 05:20 AM
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Write the Caption for the Photo :-)
Boyd Speerschneider <bspeerscNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<Xns94C8E73DF3A4FbspeerscNOSPAM@65.32.1.6>...
> http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedoc...04parrou-002000 > > Did anyone catch this? > A moto also crashed in the Arenburg forest IIRC. > > - Boyd S. "Get a bike!" |
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13-04.-2004, 08:46 AM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
"trg" <trg@world.REMOVETHIS.std.com> wrote in news:407a5b80$0$514
$636a15ce@news.free.fr: > I counted two motorcycles that crashed in the forest. > > Boyd Speerschneider wrote: >> http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedoc...04parrou-002000 >> >> Did anyone catch this? >> A moto also crashed in the Arenburg forest IIRC. >> >> - Boyd S. > > <disclaimer> I know its bad form to respond to your own posts, but I can't help myself. </disclaimer> In re-watching the race, it occurred to me that the moto crashing in the forest took out at least half of the guys in contention at that point in the race. Why is it that these bikes are actually allowed on that section? Anyone here (besides me) think they should be banned next year? - Boyd S. |
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13-04.-2004, 10:10 AM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
"Boyd Speerschneider" <bspeerscNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94C9C96BFC8D3bspeerscNOSPAM@65.32.1.6... > > In re-watching the race, it occurred to me that the moto crashing in the > forest took out at least half of the guys in contention at that point in the > race. Why is it that these bikes are actually allowed on that section? > Anyone here (besides me) think they should be banned next year? No TV coverage in the Forest would really go over well. |
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13-04.-2004, 11:34 PM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
Boyd Speerschneider <bspeerscNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message > In re-watching the race, it occurred to me that the moto crashing in the
> forest took out at least half of the guys in contention at that point in the > race. Why is it that these bikes are actually allowed on that section? > Anyone here (besides me) think they should be banned next year? > > - Boyd S. Me. They could use those cable mounted cameras in football stadiums. Run four or five of them at intervals, one after the other about 15 feet above the pave. Make the motos come to the front about 5k before the forest, while the peleton is all stretched out anyway. Send all but one of them into the forest with a 2 minute gap so they can take it slow. The one moto left catches the action at the front could park at the entrance and bring up the rear. (maybe they could send all the motos through first, and use helecopter shots to show the leadout into the forest.) Does it seem like the UCI is ignoring the "no-drafting from the moto" rule, or is it just screwy camera lenses that makes it seem like every race is motorpaced? |
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14-04.-2004, 04:45 AM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
"jim gravity" <jim_gravity@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:febcdd69.0404130634.3119c689@posting.google.com... > > Does it seem like the UCI is ignoring the "no-drafting from the moto" > rule, or is it just screwy camera lenses that makes it seem like every > race is motorpaced? Telephoto lenses compress the field in depth so that it looks like you're right on top of the riders though they're quite a ways in front. I'm more concerned with the side camera views which invariably seem to happen to the windward side of a heavy sidewind day. |
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14-04.-2004, 06:46 AM
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Re: LMAO... this was the funniest part
Originally posted by Tom Kunich
>Telephoto lenses compress the field in depth so that it looks like >you're right on top of the riders though they're quite a ways in front. That's what I was thinking, but sometimes you can see from the 'copter that the gap is often only a few bike lengths. The moto plus two riders and a camera punches quite a hole through the wind and I bet riding 4 lengths behind a moto is easier than breaking your own wind, maybe even comparable to riding 6 inches behind another rider. >I'm more concerned with the side camera views which invariably seem to >happen to the windward side of a heavy sidewind day. Me too. -- |
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