Are you seriously suggesting Helen should ride something like the thing in the picture?
No: not very road-friendly. But then the agenda is keeping up with a young lad, not clocking a professional athlete's world record. Something like a semi lowracer with a tail box should help quite a bit to stop catching the wind.
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No nice girl would be seen dead in such a thing.
Nice girls don't indulge in slabicide either, so what's the problem? ;-)
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I particularly like, "Part of her race preparation was attending The Hook Norton Beer Festival the day before!"
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:36:14 +0100 someone who may be "Tony W" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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No nice girl would be seen dead in such a thing.
You might be getting yourself into trouble here, though perhaps that is the intention:-)
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No: not very road-friendly. But then the agenda is keeping up with a young lad, not clocking a professional athlete's world record. Something like a semi lowracer with a tail box should help quite a bit to stop catching the wind.
Yes, but on a mobile deck chair maternal bosoms heave with pride at genetic inheritance's performance, which translates directly into increased wind resistance resulting in relative performance of genetic inheritance (wrt Mum) improving (as he moves further ahead) resulting in further heave etc.
Better stick to a Celeste Briachi.
Of course, taking the supply of slabs off the back rack would help.
Yes, but on a mobile deck chair maternal bosoms heave with pride at genetic inheritance's performance, which translates directly into increased wind resistance resulting in relative performance of genetic inheritance (wrt Mum) improving (as he moves further ahead) resulting in further heave etc.
HPVs aren't limited like UCI-compliant machines in exactly where the power will come from. So as long as you can harness the kinetic energy of the MBH and feed it into the drive train somehow then the Paving Slab Fairy may well be breaking records as well as bib short wearers! ;-)
Of course, you'll need to be pretty smart to work out how to do it, but that Mr. Burrows is pretty handy in the ideas line and lives in Norfolk too IIRC...
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:42:19 +0100 someone who may be Peter Clinch <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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So as long as you can harness the kinetic energy of the MBH
Would those interested in experimenting on maternal bosom heave please form an orderly line and take it in turns:-)
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Offspring looked at me in a sort of sympathetic, "how do I let mum down gently" way and said, "Oh that's okay Mum, I'll go out on my own then, as I want to get some sprinting in and I know you can't keep up with me. You just do your own pace, Mum."
It's just Yet Another Reason to give in to the Dark Side, Helen. Note that recently Claire King, a 60 mile a week commuter, did better than Boardman's UCI hour record by riding a Sensibly Designed Bike. Since Nathan is resigned to comedy aerodynamics and discomfort
But seriously... is that a very narrow tadpole I'm looking at, or are those things that look like wheel fairings actually bomb doors?
Probably bomb doors for the rider's feet: it's a bike.
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It's just Yet Another Reason to give in to the Dark Side, Helen
I'd love a dark side trike, Pete. It's just they cost soooooo much. Besides which I also want a Colnago C50 and that De Rosa 50th anniversary special ;-)
They make the Redmount Roller in your part of the world - maybe if you asked nicely you could be their travelling publicity person :-)
