Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***

[Adam4868]

He would have won the stage if that nobber hadn't knocked him off.

Your all heart x

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

could you please tell me what groupset Bardet was using that allowed him to descend like that? Because if that's what the right groupset can do for you, I'm going to buy one tomorrow.

Missing my point entirely. Read my post again. It's about the pressure to include ever steeper climbs to showcase ever more ludicrous bottom gears.

 

[brommers]

Giving out the prizes today:

 

[400bhp]

Missing my point entirely. Read my post again. It's about the pressure to include ever steeper climbs to showcase ever more ludicrous bottom gears.

Why the need to showcase more ludicrous gears? A groupset is a groupset, you only ever buy one for the bike anyway,?.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Out of interest, what bottom gears have been on show? I haven't been paying sufficient attention.

From the little I know about pro racing a 30T sprocket would probably be seen as ludicrous. Whereas in the real world 34/32 is standard, and ludicrous applies to teeny tiny touring chainrings for hauling camping gear up mountains.

I think the ITV4 commentary suggested Froome was riding 38/30 whereas 34/28 is more common amount the riders on stages with steep climbs.

Graham

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Out of interest, what bottom gears have been on show? I haven't been paying sufficient attention.

From the little I know about pro racing a 30T sprocket would probably be seen as ludicrous. Whereas in the real world 34/32 is standard, and ludicrous applies to teeny tiny touring chainrings for hauling camping gear up mountains.

Some of the riders are using 36x32. Ludricrous on a professional racing bike.

 

[400bhp]

Some of the riders are using 36x32. Ludricrous on a professional racing bike.

Why is it ludicrous?

 

[Crackle]

Some of the riders are using 36x32. Ludricrous on a professional racing bike.

It's just not manly. Hinault would have chewed away the hill to make the gradient easier.

 

[roadrash]

if that's what they need then why is it ludicrous do you think there should be a rule lowest gears they can use

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

This is all about allowing the unfit and often overweight sportive riding masses to 'look the part', to allow them to ride bikes that look pretty much identical to the ones used by the pro's. Routing a Grand Tour over such steep climbs forces the pro teams to fit the same granny gears as the sportive riders. But it comes at the cost of ever more treacherous descents.

 

[roadrash]

what makes any descent treacherous is the way it is ridden , by a pro or joe blogs,

 

[Crackle]

This is all about allowing the unfit and often overweight sportive riding masses to 'look the part', to allow them to ride bikes that look pretty much identical to the ones used by the pro's. Routing a Grand Tour over such steep climbs forces the pro teams to fit the same granny gears as the sportive riders. But it comes at the cost of ever more treacherous descents.

The whole history of bike racing is about selling things. It's a shop window for selling things, besides, that's not the worst descent they've had.

 

[SWSteve]

Big gears don't make you ride fast down hill, we've all gone so fast there's no point pedalling...

Porte crashed doing 76kph, he'd need to be riding a 55x11 (and he wouldn't have had a 55) with legs going at 120rpm to go that fast.

Steep, long descents make you go fast.

 

[jarlrmai]

He only lost just over a minute

What I meant is how much more than a minute would he have lost if he had been using disc brakes and had to get a disc wheel, are they as easy to swap as rim brake wheels?

 

[400bhp]

This is all about allowing the unfit and often overweight sportive riding masses to 'look the part', to allow them to ride bikes that look pretty much identical to the ones used by the pro's. Routing a Grand Tour over such steep climbs forces the pro teams to fit the same granny gears as the sportive riders. But it comes at the cost of ever more treacherous descents.

You are seriously deluded.