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29-05.-2006, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Tire Repair or Walk????
When racing do you carry a tube, tire levers and a CO2 in your jersey? I know you don't race with a bag under your saddle, or do you?
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31-05.-2006, 04:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Richmond, VA & Quahog, RI
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Re: Tire Repair or Walk????
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Don't carry a thing. In a crit you may be able to take a free lap and get a wheel change, but in a road race you're SOL. |
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04-06.-2006, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Re: Tire Repair or Walk????
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I have never been in a RR where there is not a wheel van following each race. If you are off the back and flat, then you may be SOL, but you should be able to find a ride with a sag wagon. |
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04-06.-2006, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Canberra
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Re: Tire Repair or Walk????
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your lucky to have a wheel van. I have a small back that i use so normally in a RR i will carry it. Crit's its not much point even worring, if you get a flat you are normally so far out of the race by the time you even change a wheel its not much point
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06-06.-2006, 09:22 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Japan
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Re: Tire Repair or Walk????
Mostly short 20, 30, or 40 km races in Japan. (Where I am.). If you get a flat you're out...
Last year I crashed and a higher grade was racing about a minute behind us. One of my team mates in the following race had a puncture just as he saw me lying on the side of the road with blood pouring from my body... Being a faster class he got to me within 20 seconds of my crash... He jumped off and we exchanged wheels before I got in the ambulance.... He finished at the end of the pack but not last..... In longer races there is usually a support car with spares.... Another friend (we were racing on a Grand Prix circuit) had 2 flats within the first 10kms of a 100km race. He couldn't finish with the lead pack but he still beat me.... The circuit was 4.1km and he managed to get back to the pits and do a quick change over..twice.... He came 6th the following year... |
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