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foxyrider wrote: ↑4 Apr 2024, 7:16pm

MrsHJ wrote: ↑4 Apr 2024, 7:02pm Horrendous crash to day. I hope everyone recovers but I can’t remember a race where 3 main contenders were all out at he same spot ((Remco, Primoz, Jonas). The Basque Itzulia tour seems to have been particularly crash prone.

There do seem to be a lot of bad crashes this year in both mens and womens top flight races affected a lot of the top riders. And some of the injuries have been horrendous. Mark Cavendish recently suggested that the relative inexperience of a lot of the peloton, as he put it, a lack of respect, is possibly a contributory factor. Not sure what could be done to reduce the carnage, controversial thought here, ban disc brakes, you have to learn much more bike control when your stopping distance is longer!

CJ wrote: ↑19 Mar 2024, 5:48pm

cycleruk wrote: ↑19 Mar 2024, 5:21pm Have to go back down and start again.

Is NOT even funny.

CJ wrote: ↑19 Mar 2024, 3:58pm

cycleruk wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 9:37am I don't have E-assist. But my technique for steep hill starting is to start at 90 degrees to the hill. Point the bike across the road, one foot on a pedal, and this usually gives time for lifting the other foot while setting off.
Obviously this depends on practical issues. Is the road wide enough, no traffic, etc'.

Mine too. I find that a key advantage and refinement of this technique - on hills steep enough to want it - is to place the bike so one's on-road foot is up-slope, for that enables one to start in the saddle already!

Unfortunately this technique is of no use to someone whose hill-start problem is a fear of falling at low speed. For sharp turns up into a steep slope are also off their agenda - especially within a moment of starting!

rareposter wrote: ↑18 Mar 2024, 9:57am It'll be fine.

It doesn't work the other way round though - you can't use a 10sp chain on 8sp chainset/cassette.