What do High Road and Slipstreme Manufacture?

brian_j_roth@yahoo.com

With 3 Giro stage wins between the two teams thus far, I'm wondering
if these teams are ever going to land a true sponsor. The T-Mobil
severence and Doug Ellis' patronage wont last forever.....

Carl Sundquist

"MagillaGorilla" <magilla@zoo.com> wrote in message
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> It is also unclear why you wouldn't think that ANYONE couldn't put
> together a winning team if you had a sponsor - why would the team have to
> come from existing teams without one?
>
> Your question makes no sense.
>

Neither does believing that you tt faster on wet roads because your tires
slide like an ice skate on a layer of water.

MagillaGorilla

Carl Sundquist wrote:

>
> "MagillaGorilla" <magilla@zoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Z9mdne3cis3X_6TVnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@ptd.net...
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>>
>> It is also unclear why you wouldn't think that ANYONE couldn't put
>> together a winning team if you had a sponsor - why would the team have
>> to come from existing teams without one?
>>
>> Your question makes no sense.
>>
>
> Neither does believing that you tt faster on wet roads because your
> tires slide like an ice skate on a layer of water.



Ohhh......so that's what's been bothering you.

I didn't say the bike "skates" along the road like some kind of Sasha
Cohen Ice Capades Show. What I said was the water reduces the
coefficient of friction for the tire. And that it's probably negligible.

The high humidity is also conducive to making you go faster.

Shouldn't you be on your rollers getting warmed up to race Somerville?

Magilla

Carl Sundquist

"MagillaGorilla" <magilla@zoo.com> wrote in message
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> Carl Sundquist wrote:
>
>>
>> "MagillaGorilla" <magilla@zoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Z9mdne3cis3X_6TVnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@ptd.net...
>>
>>>
>>> It is also unclear why you wouldn't think that ANYONE couldn't put
>>> together a winning team if you had a sponsor - why would the team have
>>> to come from existing teams without one?
>>>
>>> Your question makes no sense.
>>>
>>
>> Neither does believing that you tt faster on wet roads because your tires
>> slide like an ice skate on a layer of water.
>
>
>
> Ohhh......so that's what's been bothering you.
>
> I didn't say the bike "skates" along the road like some kind of Sasha
> Cohen Ice Capades Show. What I said was the water reduces the coefficient
> of friction for the tire. And that it's probably negligible.
>
> The high humidity is also conducive to making you go faster.
>
> Shouldn't you be on your rollers getting warmed up to race Somerville?
>
> Magilla

Bothering me? No way. I enjoy watching you work people into a lather because
they don't know where you're coming from. I just get my giggles knocking
down your screed once in a while.

Yeah, higher humidity is the key, not slipperier roads.

On a really trivial but related note, I wonder if there is measurable energy
used in dispersing water between the tire and the road and in flinging water
off the tire as it rotates?

Michael Press

In article <t7adnfHmVea7L6fVnZ2dnUVZ_rPinZ2d@ptd.net>,
MagillaGorilla <magilla@zoo.com> wrote:

> Carl Sundquist wrote:
>
> >
> > "MagillaGorilla" <magilla@zoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:Z9mdne3cis3X_6TVnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@ptd.net...
> >
> >>
> >> It is also unclear why you wouldn't think that ANYONE couldn't put
> >> together a winning team if you had a sponsor - why would the team have
> >> to come from existing teams without one?
> >>
> >> Your question makes no sense.
> >>
> >
> > Neither does believing that you tt faster on wet roads because your
> > tires slide like an ice skate on a layer of water.
>
>
>
> Ohhh......so that's what's been bothering you.
>
> I didn't say the bike "skates" along the road like some kind of Sasha
> Cohen Ice Capades Show. What I said was the water reduces the
> coefficient of friction for the tire. And that it's probably negligible.

However the energy consumed throwing the rooster tail
eats up any putative gains and more.

> The high humidity is also conducive to making you go faster.
>
> Shouldn't you be on your rollers getting warmed up to race Somerville?
>
> Magilla

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Michael Press