crashing in the kilo

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ronaldo Jeremiah said:

I wonder what happened to this poor fella:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1/68

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1/67

I saw a crash in a kilo once - Nitz was using a front wheel that
reportedly only attached to his fork with one or two threads in the
locknut. It came unattached right when he was at full speed and about
to sit down. I bet he wished that fork had lawyer lips (but
seriously, I'm with Trdina - I file them off). I've also seen at
least one rider eat it in a pursuit.

-RJ

A later report said he threw his arm up in the air celebrating. He
lost it. (Remember, he has Cerbral Palsy...).

He was okay.

Scott
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scott patton said:

A later report said he threw his arm up in the air celebrating. He
lost it. (Remember, he has Cerbral Palsy...).

Not leprosy?

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Quoted message said:

scott patton said:

A later report said he threw his arm up in the air celebrating. He
lost it. (Remember, he has Cerbral Palsy...).

Not leprosy?

When you die...hopefully someone will be around to [censored] on your grave
Dave

"Ronaldo Jeremiah" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I saw a crash in a kilo once - Nitz was using a front wheel that
reportedly only attached to his fork with one or two threads in the
locknut. It came unattached right when he was at full speed and about
to sit down. I bet he wished that fork had lawyer lips (but
seriously, I'm with Trdina - I file them off). I've also seen at
least one rider eat it in a pursuit.

-RJ

Dave H said:

When you die...hopefully someone will be around to [censored] on your grave

Now I can't make jokes about the Paralympics?!

"Ronaldo Jeremiah" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I saw a crash in a kilo once - Nitz was using a front wheel that
reportedly only attached to his fork with one or two threads in the
locknut. It came unattached right when he was at full speed and about
to sit down. I bet he wished that fork had lawyer lips (but
seriously, I'm with Trdina - I file them off). I've also seen at
least one rider eat it in a pursuit.
-RJ

Very close. It was 1987 Natz (17 years ago, good grief !). Nitz was riding
one of the "Huffy" (7 Eleven was sponsored by them at the time) carbon fiber
bikes we had used at worlds the year before. The fork had a hole as a
dropout instead of the normal slots. The front wheel used flat head cap
socket caps running through the fork, threaded into an aluminum hub axle.
It's true Nitz's front wheel had only a couple of threads of the socket caps
in each side. Nitz was a tinkerer and always trying to get an edge,
frequently by trying to make things lighter (In 1986, he rode a bike with
the fork installed backwards to increase the trail, to make it easier to
control his front disk. He also squashed the fork blades to minimize the
frontal area.). In this case, shorter bolts meant less weight, but it also
meant more stress on the few aluminum threads the bolts were attached to. He
was at the center of the backstretch on his start lap when the front wheel
let go and he faceplanted. Because of the design of the fork/axle interface,
the lawyers lips would have had to have been on the _inside_ of the fork
blades.

The crash knocked out Nitz's upper front teeth and IIRC, he bit through both
his upper and lower lips. Once he returned to Colo Spgs after a brief visit
home to CA, we, the team pursuiters, tried our best to make him laugh,
because laughing caused his stitches to pull. He had to clamp his mouth shut
between his thumb and fingers to keep his stitches from tearing up in his
mouth and causing extreme pain. But hey, that's what friends are for, right?

So the irony is that if the fork had had lawyers lips Nitz would have filed
them off anyway, and the story would have been the same.

scott patton said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ronaldo Jeremiah said:

I wonder what happened to this poor fella:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1/68

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1/67

I saw a crash in a kilo once - Nitz was using a front wheel that
reportedly only attached to his fork with one or two threads in the
locknut. It came unattached right when he was at full speed and about
to sit down. I bet he wished that fork had lawyer lips (but
seriously, I'm with Trdina - I file them off). I've also seen at
least one rider eat it in a pursuit.

-RJ

A later report said he threw his arm up in the air celebrating. He
lost it. (Remember, he has Cerbral Palsy...).

He was okay.

Scott

Cerebral Palsy? Here's some background on that tough guy.

http://www.ski-wm2003.de/en/categories/athleten.php?id=51055

On 09/20/2004 09:44 PM, in article [email hidden],

Richard Adams said:

scott patton said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ronaldo Jeremiah said:

I wonder what happened to this poor fella:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1
/68

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/sep04/paralympics04/index.php?id=day1
/67

I saw a crash in a kilo once - Nitz was using a front wheel that
reportedly only attached to his fork with one or two threads in the
locknut. It came unattached right when he was at full speed and about
to sit down. I bet he wished that fork had lawyer lips (but
seriously, I'm with Trdina - I file them off). I've also seen at
least one rider eat it in a pursuit.

-RJ

A later report said he threw his arm up in the air celebrating. He
lost it. (Remember, he has Cerbral Palsy...).

He was okay.

Scott

Cerebral Palsy? Here's some background on that tough guy.

http://www.ski-wm2003.de/en/categories/athleten.php?id=51055

Cyclingnews.com has some conflicting info.

In the article at
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/sep04/paralympics04/?id=paralympics041,
they identify the crashing rider as Andrew Pannazzolo.

"In the Men's CP 3/4 Bicycle Kilometre Time Trial, Kenny beat Australia's
Andrew Panazzolo and the Czech Republic's Jiri Bouska in an adjusted time of
1 minute 8.196 seconds, and in doing so, established a new world record,
which was broken only minutes earlier by Bouska and later by Panazzolo.

"In fact, Adelaide-born Panazzolo was so delighted at his achievement that
the cerebral palsy athlete thrusted his arms in the air, only to come
crashing down onto the track seconds later, much to the horror of
spectators. But in a flash, the tall 25-year-old cyclist was up and
embracing his coach and team mates as if nothing had happened."

"I've only been riding for seven months... I'm still a bit average," he
commented. "I told my coach before the start that if I broke the world
record to standby for some emotion... I guess I took it a bit too far."

But the photo captions identify him as (both Australian & Austrian)
Micael/Michael Kurz.

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Quoted message said:

From: "Carl Sundquist" [email hidden]

Quoted message said:

Very close. It was 1987 Natz (17 years ago, good grief !). Nitz was riding
one of the "Huffy" (7 Eleven was sponsored by them at the time) carbon fiber
bikes we had used at worlds the year before. The fork had a hole as a
dropout instead of the normal slots. The front wheel used flat head cap
socket caps running through the fork, threaded into an aluminum hub axle.
It's true Nitz's front wheel had only a couple of threads of the socket caps
in each side. Nitz was a tinkerer and always trying to get an edge,
frequently by trying to make things lighter (In 1986, he rode a bike with
the fork installed backwards to increase the trail, to make it easier to
control his front disk. He also squashed the fork blades to minimize the
frontal area.). In this case, shorter bolts meant less weight, but it also
meant more stress on the few aluminum threads the bolts were attached to. He
was at the center of the backstretch on his start lap when the front wheel
let go and he faceplanted. Because of the design of the fork/axle interface,
the lawyers lips would have had to have been on the _inside_ of the fork
blades.

The crash knocked out Nitz's upper front teeth and IIRC, he bit through both
his upper and lower lips. Once he returned to Colo Spgs after a brief visit
home to CA, we, the team pursuiters, tried our best to make him laugh,
because laughing caused his stitches to pull. He had to clamp his mouth shut
between his thumb and fingers to keep his stitches from tearing up in his
mouth and causing extreme pain. But hey, that's what friends are for, right?

So the irony is that if the fork had had lawyers lips Nitz would have filed
them off anyway, and the story would have been the same.

Thanks, Great story Carl
Bill C