Re: Bicycle race training technique

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

On 12 Feb 2025 19:59:10 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
 

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:36:08 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
 
 

Riding among cars and trucks is likely to cause one to inhale CO.

 
We were discussing testing for CO inhalation for better performance in
bicycle racing.  Bicycle races are normally not conducted in heavy
traffic.
 

No though UK Time Trials are often on large roads, the fastest of them are
fast because of that ie getting drag from the passing traffic!

 
I skimmed through photos of "UK Time Trials" looking for automobiles:
<https://www.google.com/search?num=10&q=UK%20time%20trials&udm=2>
I only found one (about half way down the page):
<https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/time-trials2.jpg>
<https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/reminiscences/time-trials-1940s-1950s/>
 

These generally aren’t the sort of roads people normally go looking for a
leisure ride but for a race..

 
Do they road race bicycles along side automobiles in the UK?  That
sounds about as safe as racing bicycles on a crowded US freeway.
 

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.

Hill climbs some I believe do get closed but others are often quiet areas
that it’s unlikely to disrupt anything.

Neither of those are UCI legal or mandated so frame design can go beyond
the UCI regulations.

Road races, ie bunch of people racing together, Tour of Britain etc will
have rolling road closures and will have police outriders, amateur races
relying on volunteers and that traffic will voluntarily stop, ie they have
to observe the road laws.

Such races are and have been difficult and expensive to hold for years,
with cycling at least that level not having the money to or support, a
sportive or so on has better chance of road closures as will bring in more
people and money to the area and is more of spectacle, ie locals can go to
pub/cafe and watch folks get surprised by the steep hill out of the village
etc.

Roger Merriman