Why did the officials make Floyd lower his bars?
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07-22-2006, 08:36 AM #1
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07-22-2006, 08:46 AM #2
What's next? A half iron?
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Thank you!!!
Sorry, I thought the thread title had "spoiler" in it and then I didn't know what to do once I posted that in reponse to your question...
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07-22-2006, 08:51 AM #3
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Hee hee, you must've posted as I was posting, so I never saw your post 'til after I did my post!
If you want to do a spoiler alert on yours, go back to your post and click "edit" at the bottom of the post. It'll give you a text box. Adjust your text the way you want, then click "save" (in the text box).
I had a ****ens of a time figuring out I had to hit "save" and not "edit" again.
Knotted The Computer Illiterate
I'm so happy for FLOYD and his dead thigh bone. I hope the hip replacement doesn't screw him up.
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07-22-2006, 08:58 AM #4
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Originally Posted by KnottedYet
They didn't conform to specs. There are all sorts of rules about weight, etc. for the bikes.
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07-22-2006, 12:40 PM #5
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Floyd's aero bars were tilted just a fraction too high... they have lowered them just millimetres to be at the max height within the regs.
There are many regs around competition events as Veronica said...
weight of bike
crank length
seat height
how far/back seat is allowed to be
distance between seat and bars
the size of the triangle
... and on it goes...
If you turn up to an event and the commissairs (sp?) measure your bike and it doesn't meet the specs, you will not be allowed to race.
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"I will try again tomorrow".
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