Re: RTL: Ranking for non-geared teams



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GizmoDuck wrote:
> We had one geared 29" Schlumpf on Team NZUNI, but probably used it for
> about 1/4 of RTL.

Only a 1/4? I don't know, dude. I only saw Tony riding the coker once.
Maybe I missed some of his cokering.

That time I saw was when you and Will stopped at the bottom of a fairly
steep hill, held up the coker, and Tony (seamlessly, I may add) hopped
of the guni,, hopped on the coker, and pedalled to the top of the hill.
At which point, you all did the reverse from coker to guni. I swear
Tony's body kept a constant forward speed during the whole process. It
was beautiful.

I was trying to hang with Tony at the time, and, though I thought "heh
heh, this is my chance!", I didn't seem to close the gap during the
coker/guni/coker switcharoo.


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steveyo wrote:
> Only a 1/4? I don't know, dude. I only saw Tony riding the coker once.
> Maybe I missed some of his cokering.
>



I think he meant that the team used the schlumpf for 1/4 the race,
which would be 25% of the total racing time, and if the days were
divided about equally, it would mean that Tony used his 36 about 8% of
the total NZ time.

I used my 36 once the entire race, and that was on the ridge of the
last mountain on the first stage (parker mountain or something?)
because my knee was killing me, but I think using the 36 just made it
worse.

To answer Claude's question though...

I do not know all of the ungeared teams, but if you only include the
ungeared teams, I think that you all (team venture) finished 5th with
Lost wheelers, UFO, Manly Legs, and Atlas ahead of you. Lost wheelers
were the only team in the top 10 that was ungeared. Tue is a beast!


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steveyo wrote:
> Only a 1/4? I don't know, dude. I only saw Tony riding the coker once.
> Maybe I missed some of his cokering.
>
> That time I saw was when you and Will stopped at the bottom of a fairly
> steep hill, held up the coker, and Tony (seamlessly, I may add) hopped
> of the guni,, hopped on the coker, and pedalled to the top of the hill.
> At which point, you all did the reverse from coker to guni. I swear
> Tony's body kept a constant forward speed during the whole process. It
> was beautiful.
>
> I was trying to hang with Tony at the time, and, though I thought "heh
> heh, this is my chance!", I didn't seem to close the gap during the
> coker/guni/coker switcharoo.



What James said.

Tony spent most of RTL on my Schlumpf, particularly in the latter part
of the race (Stage 4 and 5), which were particularly suited for the
Schlumpf. But Will and I both rode fixies.

He rode quite a bit of Stage 1 and 2 on his Coker.

Tony did a pretty good job with the Coker to GUni transitions.

I would have loved to ride my Schlumpf during RTL, but Tony was having
such a good run on it and I couldn't be bothered switching seats (he
runs a left handed Wallis Deathgrip).


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GizmoDuck wrote:
> Tony spent most of RTL on my Schlumpf, particularly in the latter part
> of the race (Stage 4 and 5), which were particularly suited for the
> Schlumpf. But Will and I both rode fixies.
>
> He rode quite a bit of Stage 1 and 2 on his Coker.

Oh, I guess I didn't see him much on the coker.


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