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I saw a note on teletext about the Tour de France, and the comment was that the organisers thought
that 45 Km per hour was too fast.
Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph, but then I'm an old fashioned Englishman!
Alan
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
JT
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John Forrest Tomlinson said:"Alan Holmes" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
JT
Have the nat. TTs gone metric? I thought they've been 40k for some time now. That's maybe a
couple hundred yards less than 25 mi.
Steve
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Quoted message said:John Forrest Tomlinson said:"Alan Holmes" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
JT
Have the nat. TTs gone metric? I thought they've been 40k for some time now. That's maybe a
couple hundred yards less than 25 mi.Steve
Don't forget the other 5k/3.1 mph. 45kph = roughly 28 mph.
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I saw a note on teletext about the Tour de France, and the comment was
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast.
For an ITT, 45 kph is pretty awesome.
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Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph, but then I'm an old fashioned Englishman!
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
Silly me, divided by 9 instead of 8!
Alan
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
But would that be considered to be fast?
Alan
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
But would that be considered to be fast?
Fast for what?!! For racing bikes? Of course not.
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Quoted message said:the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25 mph
Do you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
But would that be considered to be fast?
For going up a long 8% incline, very fast.
Going down same hill, no.
An all out effort, no.
Dashii
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> the organisers thought that 45 Km per hour was too fast. Personally I prefer to call it 25
> mphDo you know 45kph is quite a bit faster than 25mph? It's roughly 28mph.
But would that be considered to be fast?
Fast for what?!! For racing bikes? Of course not.
I made a mistake, the Tour de France organisers were saying that 40 km/h was too fast!
Sounds as though they have no idea what they are talking about.
Alan
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Alan Holmes said:
I made a mistake, the Tour de France organisers were saying that 40 km/h was too fast!Sounds as though they have no idea what they are talking about.
Ahhhh. Now I understand the context for your question. The overall average speed of the winner this
year was the fastest ever, at 40.94 km/h.
This is discussed elsewhere in this newsgroup in two threads with the words "Le Monde" in the
subject heading.
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