Ohio_Roadie wrote:
grumpier.mike wrote:
Hanginon wrote:
Well, I'll tell you what I want -
GP5000TT's
EXACTLY like the ones Bigham just broke the One Hour Record with! Ha!!!!!!!!!!!
What probably is very different is the Princeton Carbon wheels. I bet the tire pressure is sky high ,to get the Crr down to something similar to a Vittoria Pista track tire. Your garden variety carbon clincher would/could blow apart at 200psi. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used a wire bead.
I read somewhere that he was running 130 psi but maybe he would be kind enough to grace us with his presence.
Good stuff going on with this thread. Happy new data was brought forward to clear things up for everyone.
It is unlikely a special wheel and/or tire was made for Dan. A big part of me hopes we can get confirmation stock parts were used and get the details on actual pressure. I'm expecting it to be quite a bit above max pressure. 130 being the floor of my expectations. I would expect Dan to pump to failure and run the numbers backwards to figure out what he can get away with, then test aero to do the final optimization.
Oh and as a side note to some comments regarding race recon and warmup rumpophobia; why not just bring training wheels? I don't see anyting simpler and more efficient than this. That's what I do and I can tell you it's not on my "things to improve" list.