http://www.sixdayracing.com/video/LIVE-STREAM-ENGLISH/LIVE-STREAM-AMSTERDAM-SIX-DAY

“Experiments in Speed”……. bit long but worth it.

http://vimeo.com/70921986

Phone call to Royce, Frank?

Maybe a Veloforma track frame. And two wheels of raclette cheese, and a giant swiss cow bell. The thought of a race hardened Cancellara tucked in, attempting a new hour record has me highly stimulated. He can beat Boardman’s record.

My pick is he will go further than Frank. What does that win me?

Yes: highly stimulated. Let’s just cancel the rest of the season””I’m looking forward to this. Hoping we get some live coverage somewhere!

We will start a monster VSP party for this event. Prizes, wheels-o-cheese, as many Velominati hour rides leading up to this as possible.

win a Trek fixie?

Fabian Cancellara is set to make an attempt on the world hour record within the next twelve months, either after the world championships in September or immediately after the 2014 Spring Classics campaign.

By a smidge (or V-ty)…

SPARTACUS IS TAKING A CRACK AT THE HOUR!!!

Saw that – he must have got excited reading this and seeing the video feed – do think he’ll crack 40km’s?

http://www.ultracycling.com/sections/records/stats/timed/

Would have loved to meet Joshua! Next time. Or maybe in Seattle together with Frank and Jim? If we make it out alive I’m sure it would be unreal.

@scaler911 Yes, this is @Joshua, Velominatus Emeritus. Fucking stud. Fucking bastard for not showing.

He is all things and no things simultaneously. Both an enigma, and an open book.

@Joshua

Seriously, you could have at least showed up for the recovery session, a skill I know you have.

And I quote, as documented in my “Notes” app in my iPhone – don’t tell me you couldn’t have been a contributing part to this deep conversation.

Frank, to G’rilla (slurred, no doubt): You and your short socks will have to wait.

G’rilla: My socks say “D” for “Dougast” or whatever that stands for.

Frank: You mean “DeFeet”.

Scaller911: No, you mean Douchebag.

That was also where I think we pondered on “who the fuck decided it’s one hour? Why not 2? or 45min?”. To all the VM out there, trust me when I say it was much funnier at the time.

He is all things and no things simultaneously. Both an enigma, and an open book.

@Joshua

Seriously, you could have at least showed up for the recovery session, a skill I know you have.

And I quote, as documented in my “Notes” app in my iPhone – don’t tell me you couldn’t have been a contributing part to this deep conversation.

Frank, to G’rilla (slurred, no doubt): You and your short socks will have to wait.

G’rilla: My socks say “D” for “Dougast” or whatever that stands for.

Frank: You mean “DeFeet”.

Scaller911: No, you mean Douchebag.

Kudos on the effort, Le Frank. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there to see it; I was temporarily distracted by a mountain. I have been actively disinterested in The Hour for quite some time now, but now that you have posted video of yourself on a track that lies within striking distance of my home and set a laudable but also potentially attainable mark on said track, I can feel my inner V stirring. You have planted a seed that cannot be unplanted. You bastard.

Jim gave me a look at the book in Astoria recently. Chapeau.

Is this the Joshua I think it is?

Jim gave me a look at the book in Astoria recently.  Chapeau.

@frank

@minion

@scaler911

@minion

Nice! Dunno if a custom seatpost will fix your position though, more like a custom top tube…

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

The owner of Veloforma said that they have the largest ava plastic track bike on the market right now at 59cm. At least I think I recall him saying that.

Yeah, their geo page for the bike has the TT at 57.4cm, which would work well if Fa-fa-fa-fa-Fhronk put pursuit bars on there. Dolan and Marvel have XL sizes with 59 and 60cm top tubes respectively, based on a quick google search. Look will make him whatever the hell he wants, for about 15 grand.

Depending on ht and st angle, I need about 59-60cm on the top tube. And we refer to a “market” as products or consumers that are available to us. Which means Dolan and Marvel are not in the market for the US.

Fuck me you’ve never been more wrong. Serenity’s address is 7918 Harwood Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53213, United States and there are tons of yanks riding Dolans. There’s this thing, it’s called the internet, and you can like, buy stuff with it and junk. If you can get a Dolan in NZ from the UK you can get one in the states.

Oh, and your efforts to find a frame that fits is likely to be even more trouble based on the differences in geo between road and track frames.  My recent purchase of a 52cm top tube track frame to match my 52 cm TT road frame puts me on a 14cm stem rather than a 12cm that’s on the road bike.  This puts me beyond the UCI mandate for handlebar reach to be less than 5cm forward of the front axle.

In order for you to get the reach you need, you’d likely be on a stupid long stem.

By extrapolation (probably totally wrong, but hey this is the interwebs) most any hour record you produced would have commisares springing out of the bushes with plumb bobs and a measuring tape.

@the pressure I’ve been trying to block @minion for years but he’s a persistent little twat. I’ll double my efforts.

Yeah you’d need 2 conditions to ban me. I’d need to be wrong, and you’d need to have no fucken sense of humour. One of those things is impossible and the other unlikely. Imagine what Marcus’d be like round here without my guiding hand of restraint.

@the pressure

If you’re talking about me, say so. Or explain how the point I’m making is incorrect.

@minion

@scaler911

@minion

Nice! Dunno if a custom seatpost will fix your position though, more like a custom top tube…

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

The owner of Veloforma said that they have the largest ava plastic track bike on the market right now at 59cm. At least I think I recall him saying that.

Yeah, their geo page for the bike has the TT at 57.4cm, which would work well if Fa-fa-fa-fa-Fhronk put pursuit bars on there. Dolan and Marvel have XL sizes with 59 and 60cm top tubes respectively, based on a quick google search. Look will make him whatever the hell he wants, for about 15 grand.

Depending on ht and st angle, I need about 59-60cm on the top tube. And we refer to a “market” as products or consumers that are available to us. Which means Dolan and Marvel are not in the market for the US.

Fuck me you’ve never been more wrong. Serenity’s address is 7918 Harwood Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53213, United States and there are tons of yanks riding Dolans. There’s this thing, it’s called the internet, and you can like, buy stuff with it and junk. If you can get a Dolan in NZ from the UK you can get one in the states.

“Time is to clock as mind us to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch …The most we can hope a watch to do is mark that progress. And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don’t really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they’re able.”

Dava Sobel, Longitude

@TheVid

Was I the only one confused by the use of kmph?

Not being terribly well travelled, I can’t comment on the metric abbreviations for speed in other metric countries, but in my part of the world speed is related in kph. Only on my occasional ventures south of the 49th do I see the abbreviation of mph. The hybridization of kmph just messes with my head, as if the acronym itself can’t decide if it’s Rule #24 compliant.

Km per Hour is most accurately expressed as kmph, if it is less common than the more ambiguous kph.

Not accurately. The recommended symbol according to IEEE is km/h.

p in SI notation stands for pico, so kmph is just as wrong as kph.

Was I the only one confused by the use of kmph?

Not being terribly well travelled, I can’t comment on the metric abbreviations for speed in other metric countries, but in my part of the world speed is related in kph. Only on my occasional ventures south of the 49th do I see the abbreviation of mph. The hybridization of kmph just messes with my head, as if the acronym itself can’t decide if it’s Rule #24 compliant.

Km per Hour is most accurately expressed as kmph, if it is less common than the more ambiguous kph.

@wiscot

@frank

@wiscot

Frank, given how meticulous you are in your bikes and set up, I’m really surprised you went for it on a bike so obviously out of whack to your normal position. I’m sure it felt weird, but did you suffer and lingering after effects in your knees, quads?

Honestly, we didn’t discover the problems with the position until we were setting it up an hour or so before the ride. It hardly seemed viable, at that point, to bail out on the program…what with all the hubbub of having a VSP and live streaming going on. But that’s also part of why I didn’t force things – I really didn’t want to blow my knees, which I have a history with (I spent 12 weeks in a wheelchair when I was 18 after knee surgery).

My knees are in rough shape – nothing serious – just did a light spin yesterday and I’ll be taking the rest of the week off to let things get back to normal. My back hurt like a motherfucker during the ride, but is fine now.

Yeah, given how many folks were rooting for you, to bail at the last minute because of bike issues would have been a big let-down. I’m sure Round 2 will see a perfectly dialled-in bike, much more confidence (I can’t imagine starting something like an hour attempt on a bike that’s not just a few mm’s off, but centimeteres off) that has to fuck up the psyche right there.

I hear you on the back issues. I once rode a 50 mile (80kms) on my new TT bike, funny bars etc. Rocked a good time 2:00:24, but could barely straighten up and walk afterwards..

Any thoughts on the rematch of Frank versus 60 minutes? This fall? Next year?

For sure next year. If @VeloformaMark gets seatpin/stem made earlier, I might do a rematch less publicly to see how I fair.

But I will be doing an Hour every Festum for the foreseeable future. Can’t think of a better way to celebrate.

@wiscot

Frank, given how meticulous you are in your bikes and set up, I’m really surprised you went for it on a bike so obviously out of whack to your normal position. I’m sure it felt weird, but did you suffer and lingering after effects in your knees, quads?

Honestly, we didn’t discover the problems with the position until we were setting it up an hour or so before the ride. It hardly seemed viable, at that point, to bail out on the program…what with all the hubbub of having a VSP and live streaming going on. But that’s also part of why I didn’t force things – I really didn’t want to blow my knees, which I have a history with (I spent 12 weeks in a wheelchair when I was 18 after knee surgery).

My knees are in rough shape – nothing serious – just did a light spin yesterday and I’ll be taking the rest of the week off to let things get back to normal. My back hurt like a motherfucker during the ride, but is fine now.

Yeah, given how many folks were rooting for you, to bail at the last minute because of bike issues would have been a big let-down. I’m sure Round 2 will see a perfectly dialled-in bike, much more confidence (I can’t imagine starting something like an hour attempt on a bike that’s not just a few mm’s off, but centimeteres off) that has to fuck up the psyche right there.

I hear you on the back issues. I once rode a 50 mile (80kms) on my new TT bike, funny bars etc. Rocked a good time 2:00:24, but could barely straighten up and walk afterwards..

Any thoughts on the rematch of Frank versus 60 minutes? This fall? Next year?

Not being terribly well travelled, I can’t comment on the metric abbreviations for speed in other metric countries, but in my part of the world speed is related in kph.  Only on my occasional ventures south of the 49th do I see the abbreviation of mph. The hybridization of kmph just messes with my head, as if the acronym itself can’t decide if it’s Rule #24 compliant.

@frank yep thats it, think of it ike this, we exist in four dimentions x, y, z and time. If we are stationary then we are moving along the time axis at the speed of light. Any velosity we take, in any combination of the other dimentions redueces the our speed on the time axies. So we go slower though time. Over all velosity is conserved. ( this explaneation is usfull, but done not take in to acount mass and therefore any other complecations like the higgs field)
They got two atomic clocks synced them and put one in a plane. The plane went around the world and when they compered the two clock later on the ground, the one on the plane was running slow.

So yes you did spent less than an hour on your bike (in your frame of refrence) doing the HOUR.

so therefore he could haveDonne a few more metres and got 37.5 I knew I was right! If he had timed it from his POV

@ChrisO

What about helmet Frank ?

Allegedly an aero helmet saves something like 50 watts, which is a hell of a lot, given that you’re probable sitting on 300 watts for the hour.

Shame you didn’t ride the Powertap wheel – it would have given you some really good information for your next attempt.

Not forgetting the shoes

Allegedly an aero helmet saves something like 50 watts, which is a hell of a lot, given that you’re probable sitting on 300 watts for the hour.

Shame you didn’t ride the Powertap wheel – it would have given you some really good information for your next attempt.

@sthilzy

and for proactively starting to design gear for next year’s ride.

Including a V-skinsuit?

Bien sur.

@ChrisO

Now that’s a question – what would happen if a brain surgeon and a rocket scientist met at a party. Who would win a fight ?

A fight? Fuck that. I want to know what happens if a stationary brain surgeon operated on a patient moving at the speed of light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

No cycling clip will be the same again, though, with out a spinning V-Cog and V-Jersey symbol.

Rest assured, that will be a permanent addition to all Velominati videos from here on out. I love that G’rilla has it rotating every V seconds. Details, details…

Frank, given how meticulous you are in your bikes and set up, I’m really surprised you went for it on a bike so obviously out of whack to your normal position. I’m sure it felt weird, but did you suffer and lingering after effects in your knees, quads?

Honestly, we didn’t discover the problems with the position until we were setting it up an hour or so before the ride. It hardly seemed viable, at that point, to bail out on the program…what with all the hubbub of having a VSP and live streaming going on. But that’s also part of why I didn’t force things – I really didn’t want to blow my knees, which I have a history with (I spent 12 weeks in a wheelchair when I was 18 after knee surgery).

My knees are in rough shape – nothing serious – just did a light spin yesterday and I’ll be taking the rest of the week off to let things get back to normal. My back hurt like a motherfucker during the ride, but is fine now.

No cycling clip will be the same again, though, with out a spinning V-Cog and V-Jersey symbol.

They’re big girls, they can deal. But this is more interesting.

and for proactively starting to design gear for next year’s ride.

Including a V-skinsuit?

Bien sur.

@ChrisO

Now that’s a question – what would happen if a brain surgeon and a rocket scientist met at a party. Who would win a fight ?

A fight? Fuck that. I want to know what happens if a stationary brain surgeon operated on a patient moving at the speed of light.

@scaler911

@minion

Nice! Dunno if a custom seatpost will fix your position though, more like a custom top tube…

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

The owner of Veloforma said that they have the largest ava plastic track bike on the market right now at 59cm. At least I think I recall him saying that.

Yeah, their geo page for the bike has the TT at 57.4cm, which would work well if Fa-fa-fa-fa-Fhronk put pursuit bars on there. Dolan and Marvel have XL sizes with 59 and 60cm top tubes respectively, based on a quick google search. Look will make him whatever the hell he wants, for about 15 grand.

Depending on ht and st angle, I need about 59-60cm on the top tube. And we refer to a “market” as products or consumers that are available to us. Which means Dolan and Marvel are not in the market for the US.

@Luke Bartlett @GT @frank @scaler911

oooh yeah, the theory of ralativity, time travel blah blah. You want to stretch your brain? Try living here and working out when to tune into fucking bike races and US sports.

Which is why the VSPs have a countdown timer now. Because all you fellers down there kept complaining that the Time Zone Math (which might be the most complicated math on Earth) was causing your Delgado’s.

And now you still Delgado routinely.

(Is that frowned upon now that real girls frequent the internet?)

Awesome Frank! might have to give it a go oneday..

This article had me realise, that if the time of the stationery observer is faster relative to the person travelling extremely fast, whenever a space ship jumps to ‘hyperspace’, it also must travel into the future. I think my brain just exploded.

I believe that’s why they call it Hyperspace, because they’re not in real space. They are warping under it, hence Warp speed.

If they were in real space then, as you say, they would go into the future and that would just be silly.

No doubt some rocket scientist will be along in a moment to correct me – we seem to have picked up a few of them lately.  Nobody mention brain surgery in the next article alright.

Now that’s a question – what would happen if a brain surgeon and a rocket scientist met at a party. Who would win a fight ?

Which leads me to mention that I was reading a survey which said that 56% of Americans think that a Bear would win a fight with a Shark (although there was no mention of whose home medium the fight would be staged in – maybe hyperspace).

Mind you the same survey had 18% believing the Loch Ness Monster was real and another 18% unsure, so I’m not sure their opinions on Bear v Shark are particularly authoritative.

So yes you did spent less than an hour on your bike (in your frame of refrence) doing the HOUR.

Awesome Frank! might have to give it a go oneday..

This article had me realise, that if the time of the stationery observer is faster relative to the person travelling extremely fast, whenever a space ship jumps to ‘hyperspace’, it also must travel into the future. I think my brain just exploded.

Holy cow, have I missed the news breaking on the most important scientific advance in human history?  This is stated in such an affirmative way that I must have missed hyperspace capability being delivered.  Frank’s mashing around the track for an hour has made this discussion far too complicated for my simple brain!

and for proactively starting to design gear for next year’s ride.

Including a V-skinsuit?

@Luke Bartlett @GT @frank @scaler911

oooh yeah, the theory of ralativity, time travel blah blah. You want to stretch your brain? Try living here and working out when to tune into fucking bike races and US sports.

There’s a good reason the staff don’t give the tv remotes to the inmates.

@minion

Nice! Dunno if a custom seatpost will fix your position though, more like a custom top tube…

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

The owner of Veloforma said that they have the largest ava plastic track bike on the market right now at 59cm. At least I think I recall him saying that.

Yeah, their geo page for the bike has the TT at 57.4cm, which would work well if Fa-fa-fa-fa-Fhronk put pursuit bars on there. Dolan and Marvel have XL sizes with 59 and 60cm top tubes respectively, based on a quick google search. Look will make him whatever the hell he wants, for about 15 grand.

Ben fatto ragazzi! La bici (Veloforma) è bellissima, proprio una macchina da velocità.

Frank eri bello cotto alla fine eh, ma dopo l’Ora uno come si può sentire…

“”””””””””””-

For a special occasion, a special comment! In Italian.

Darn, Pedale, what an incredibly beautiful language, Italian… I’m not sure you intended this, but for me as a translator, reading your post presented an almost irresistable challenge, so I’m going to give it a try (but without using Google translate)

The first part is relatively easy, I think: “Well done, lad(s)! The bike (Veloforma) is a beauty; truly a machine made for speed” (Not sure if “ragazzi” is plural or singular)

Second line: “Frank seemed to be pretty cooked towards the end, but after such an hour, that’s how you (can) feel”

Or words to that effect?

And great effort, @Frank – both the ride and the report.

@GT

To the timer.

@Luke Bartlett

None of this is important though, unless you can ride at about 970 million kph (or 600 million mph).

Exactly. (And welcome) I do wonder, however, if our minds are tuned to the passage of time as a constant and that perhaps this factors in to why it feels longer to ride on a trainer vesus on the road? Or are we just focussed on other things – is it as simple as that?

By the way, your dissertation was impressive enough to make my head hurt. Its late, and I can’t be bothered to sort out if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me!

The “force” is strong in this one

oooh yeah, the theory of ralativity, time travel blah blah. You want to stretch your brain? Try living here and working out when to tune into fucking bike races and US sports.

@frank Yeh, and also, we have to use general relativity here, since you accelerate around the corners (accelerating being defined as a change in velocity, and then a change of direction means a change in velocity (which is a speed and a direction). Therefore, if we discard that oval track business and think of a straight line of the length of the distance travelled in an hour we can think about only special relatity. Now, the rider’s internal clock is, according to them, correct, and measures the time being as velocity/track length. But, the stationary persons clock appears to move alot slower, better time, if the rider uses that time, which is not the rider’s ‘proper time’.

But, it all gets a little messed up when you consider the fact that to both the rider and the stationary person both cannot test whether they are the one moving (even though intuitively we know the rider is moving, but motion is relative, so the rider sees the stationary man coming towards him at the speed he is cycling at). So, to the stationary guy, his clock is correct and the rider’s clock moves slowly. So, they both see the other person’s clock move slower.

None of this is important though, unless you can ride at about 970 million kph (or 600 million mph).

@frank

@GT

To the timer.

@Luke Bartlett

None of this is important though, unless you can ride at about 970 million kph (or 600 million mph).

Exactly. (And welcome) I do wonder, however, if our minds are tuned to the passage of time as a constant and that perhaps this factors in to why it feels longer to ride on a trainer vesus on the road? Or are we just focussed on other things – is it as simple as that?

By the way, your dissertation was impressive enough to make my head hurt. Its late, and I can’t be bothered to sort out if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me!

Luke has be from Washington or Colorado. I probably thought up stuff like that, years ago, but never bothered to write it down so I’d remember it.

To the timer.

@Luke Bartlett

None of this is important though, unless you can ride at about 970 million kph (or 600 million mph).

Exactly. (And welcome) I do wonder, however, if our minds are tuned to the passage of time as a constant and that perhaps this factors in to why it feels longer to ride on a trainer vesus on the road? Or are we just focussed on other things – is it as simple as that?

By the way, your dissertation was impressive enough to make my head hurt. Its late, and I can’t be bothered to sort out if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me!

But, it all gets a little messed up when you consider the fact that to both the rider and the stationary person both cannot test whether they are the one moving (even though intuitively we know the rider is moving, but motion is relative, so the rider sees the stationary man coming towards him at the speed he is cycling at). So, to the stationary guy, his clock is correct and the rider’s clock moves slowly. So, they both see the other person’s clock move slower.

None of this is important though, unless you can ride at about 970 million kph (or 600 million mph).

This article had me realise, that if the time of the stationery observer is faster relative to the person travelling extremely fast, whenever a space ship jumps to ‘hyperspace’, it also must travel into the future. I think my brain just exploded.

Chapeau @frank. These episodes that involve you suffering for our entertainment are quality stuff.

Have to agree, i like nothing better than watching others suffer for entertainment, knowing full well that whilst my mind says Im still 21 and could do that easily, the body would tell me that my brain is writing cheques that my body cant cash.

Perhaps next year, one could think of a virtual competition, each doing the hour at their local track on June 17, and see who goes the furthest, with data uploaded on line.  With a VSP choosing the order of finish.  Perhaps there could be two categories, people with leg muscles and those without.

@G’rilla

@scaler911

Nice job on the edited video. The spinning V Cog is a great touch. That happen during pizza, or back at de Casa?

We started it at your house but I finished it up on Monday and Tuesday night.

It was fun to try to create something like the Eurosport logo. The cog spins once every V seconds.

Next time I want to write some code so we can display the splits, current distance, and a projected distance for the hour. In my first job out of college, I shared an office with the people who created the virtual first down line for American football on ESPN. What equivalent can we do for track cycling videos?

It would be rather harsh, but a graphic showing how far behind Merckx’s pace our hero is at a given moment?

You could do a deal like pace virtual pace line they do on the Olympic swimming and track & field broadcasts. Loved the video, but huge opportunity missed by not laying in some “Yackiity Sax” as a soundtrack to the high speed section.

‘Alpenrose is a short, steep…’ Come to Burnaby, it’s 200m and 5 degrees steeper. We were talking about a race in Alpenrose the other day and saying how you could go so much slower on that velodrome due to it’s shallow banking.

Nice! Dunno if a custom seatpost will fix your position though, more like a custom top tube…

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

The owner of Veloforma said that they have the largest ava plastic track bike on the market right now at 59cm. At least I think I recall him saying that.

“That wasn’t so bad”. ?!?

@scaler911

Nice job on the edited video. The spinning V Cog is a great touch. That happen during pizza, or back at de Casa? I also have been thinking that next year, maybe 2 of us should make a run at it. Always wanted to have a go at the hour since it’s the one and only event a skinny fucker like me could do at the ‘drome.

Yes! Hour pursuit? Nonesense, we’d all take turns.

It did look like there was two of you on the track at times. Is that a bit like having two magnets on your wheel, which would mean you only did about 18.6585km?

Chapeau Frank, can’t wait till you try it again on a properly Dutch Monkey fitted bike.

Frank, what frames do you have those photochromatic lenses in? Regular Radars or the new Radars with the PivLock job? I have some Radar frames and I’d really like to pick up some of the photochromes, after hearing that they actually got the tech worked out. Have heard many stories about many different lenses not working well. Impressed you’ve used yours in full sun and with lights on.

Frank eri bello cotto alla fine eh, ma dopo l’Ora uno come si può sentire…

——————–

For a special occasion, a special comment! In Italian.

@scaler911

Nice job on the edited video. The spinning V Cog is a great touch. That happen during pizza, or back at de Casa?

We started it at your house but I finished it up on Monday and Tuesday night.

It was fun to try to create something like the Eurosport logo. The cog spins once every V seconds.

Next time I want to write some code so we can display the splits, current distance, and a projected distance for the hour. In my first job out of college, I shared an office with the people who created the virtual first down line for American football on ESPN. What equivalent can we do for track cycling videos?

It would be rather harsh, but a graphic showing how far behind Merckx’s pace our hero is at a given moment?

Nice job on the edited video. The spinning V Cog is a great touch. That happen during pizza, or back at de Casa?

We started it at your house but I finished it up on Monday and Tuesday night.

It was fun to try to create something like the Eurosport logo. The cog spins once every V seconds.

Next time I want to write some code so we can display the splits, current distance, and a projected distance for the hour. In my first job out of college, I shared an office with the people who created the virtual first down line for American football on ESPN. What equivalent can we do for track cycling videos?

Nice job on the edited video. The spinning V Cog is a great touch. That happen during pizza, or back at de Casa? I also have been thinking that next year, maybe 2 of us should make a run at it. Always wanted to have a go at the hour since it’s the one and only event a skinny fucker like me could do at the ‘drome.

Yes! Hour pursuit? Nonesense, we’d all take turns.

@george

Time dilation: Moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer’s “stationary” clock.

We’re moving, but the time is being measured by the stationary clock. Right? If not, I’ll say again:

I like to be proven wrong at least once a day, otherwise I’m not trying hard enough.

I was able to think through this again while on a short ride. Basically, if I was in a space ship travelling a trillion kmph, my clock in my spaceship would be ticking normally for me, but when I’d look out at @Scaler911’s clock, it would be spinning like crazy. The Hour, measured by @Scaler911 at the side of the track would pass for me in a moment.

What would be measured an hour by the time keeper would feel like less than an hour to my internal clock. Therefore, my ambiguous statement that time for a moving object passes more quickly than for a stationary object is right so long as you’re thinking of the rider’s persecutive, not the observers.

That’s why its called the Theory of Relativity, I suppose.

@george

Time dilation: Moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer’s “stationary” clock.

We’re moving, but the time is being measured by the stationary clock. Right? If not, I’ll say again:

I like to be proven wrong at least once a day, otherwise I’m not trying hard enough.

It’s be cool if I could turn all my mass in to energy – that’d make me go very fast indeed – albeit briefly and with considerable damage to the Northern Hemisphere

Time dilation: Moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer’s “stationary” clock.

We’re moving, but the time is being measured by the stationary clock. Right? If not, I’ll say again:

I like to be proven wrong at least once a day, otherwise I’m not trying hard enough.

“Einstein should have been a Cyclist.”
Oh, but he was!
“I thought of that while riding my bicycle” – Einstein on Relativity (source)

No, that just means he rode a bike.