Re: Bicycle race training technique

On 2/14/2025 11:30 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 2/14/2025 10:15 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/13/2025 7:00 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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Time Trials no the road isn’t closed they have code names harking back to
it being illegal, and be large dual carriageways, depending on the location
might be held earlier in the day, though not always.

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Some here might not know about the days when time trialing was illegal in the UK. Roger might want to give a quick summary of the situation and the work-arounds...
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 Illegal?  In my youth, TT was widely popular in England and moreso there than anywhere else!

I read long ago that time trialing was popular in Britain in part because mass road racing was illegal. A solo rider going fast was not obviously part of a race, and so would not be stopped as would a group of riders.
About the legality of road racing:
http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2007/10/23/history-of-british-cycle-racing-part-i-the-ban.html
According to the article, the prohibition was not imposed by the government, as I had thought. Instead it was imposed preemptively by the supervising racing organization, which thought that if they didn't do the prohibition, the government would impose a worse one.
Note the tactics described in the article to keep the time trial events inconspicuous.
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- Frank Krygowski