Yabbut... a garage door?!

:confused

Musta been one heck of a garage door!

M

Sad.

Wonder why the garage door did not have a safety trigger on it? Most garage doors will automatically stop if they touch something before it run it limit. I remember our old garage wooden door. That thing was heavy and really could kill someone if it failed.

Peace to his family.

joc

Very sad indeed. Did y'all happen to see the comments section below the article? :huh

on a less somber and more... WTF note. This is a prime example of what a power profile should NOT look like in a crit. :lol3

:fitz
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...unk/WFcrit.jpg

WTF, were you doing laps on the side of a mountain? :lol3

Looks like he was havin trouble stayin on the wheels and hadta keep surging.

:dunno

M

It went pear shaped right from the start. The organizer threw a $40 prime on the first lap that made everyone jump and sprint basically the entire 1K. Add to that the fact that it was 90 degrees outside and in the lowest box you can see the elevation change. The start/finish is right after a nasty hill kicker that does not let up until halfway through the front straight. Since the course is so short, I never got to recover properly before hitting that hill over and over. It finally bested me and I just sat up off the back. I think about 1/3 of the field had dropped out before me according to my wife.

according to that graph that hill was 25 feet elevation change. :dunno

Yep, about 25 feet in 50 yards at 20+ miles an hour for 45 minutes straight. I believe the heat had more to do with my failure than the hill, but that just exacerbated the problem. My legs felt fine after the race; my lungs were searing though and my head was pounding like a bass drum.

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Would these dropouts be suitable for a singlespeed conversion?

http://harveymushman.smugmug.com/Oth...IMAG0127-L.jpg

My neighbor gave me a POS mountain bike that I'm thinking of converting to a fixie, just out of curiosity.

Don't do it!!

You're talking in States with a million lawsuits a year for stuff like this.

yes, would work fine. Horizontal would be a bit better and easier to adjust chain to chosen cog size but that'll work well too.

That 45 ft over and over etc. really adds up.

During the The Tour of Missori one year ,Jonathon Vauters discovered on one stage 135miles of rollers.It didn't look bad on profile, but they looked at total climbing for the day it was somthing 13,000 ft of climbing. :eek1 Some moutain stages in the Tour don't have that much climbing. The riders were saying it was one of the hardest races they'd done.