Everything is non ST Approved:
Non Aero Helmet No Aero fork Flapping Clothing Continental Tubulars Campy Shamal 650 Wheels All-Sponge Softride Frame Scott DH Aerobars with non 90 degree angle arm placement, and brakes scooping wind riding in a bathing suit Only one bottle (Gasp, need at least 5 for a 2009 Ironman race…) No Bento Box, strips of powerbar on top tube
It also was not a benign day…Jurgen Zack only road 4:35 the same day.
He does have the cages on the back of the seat that leads me to believe he had more bottles at one time during the race and I think I see a powerbar strip on the top tube, also this was state of the art back then, maybe not the fork.
Everything is non ST Approved:
Non Aero Helmet No Aero fork Flapping Clothing Continental Tubulars Campy Shamal 650 Wheels All-Sponge Softride Frame Scott DH Aerobars with non 90 degree angle arm placement, and brakes scooping wind riding in a bathing suit Only one bottle (Gasp, need at least 5 for a 2009 Ironman race…) No Bento Box, strips of powerbar on top tube
It also was not a benign day…Jurgen Zack only road 4:35 the same day.
Bullshit. I have several Kestrel EMS forks, as well as a Kinesys Aluminum model just like the one Welch used on his Power-V. The Kestrel is not more aero. The shapes on both are fairly bulbous (ie. round), but the Kinesys is several mm thinner the entire length of the blades.
Well, we know that Welchie did not get to draft the press van which everyone throws out there when we speak of Allen.
So now when they did fast times, it was always less hot and less windy in Kona!
How about, these guys were just animals and pretty well had the entire Ironman gig dialed in as good as the current crop of guys?
Seems like an almost identical performance to Crowie last year, taking into account that Welch’s bike split and run split each have a transition tacked on:
1 Craig Alexander Sydney AUS 2 08:17:45 MPRO 1/92 12 14 51:43 1:22 15 16 4:37:19 24.2 1 5 2:45:01 6:18 1:41 2:04
Everything is non ST Approved:
Non Aero Helmet No Aero fork Flapping Clothing Continental Tubulars Campy Shamal 650 Wheels All-Sponge Softride Frame Scott DH Aerobars with non 90 degree angle arm placement, and brakes scooping wind riding in a bathing suit Only one bottle (Gasp, need at least 5 for a 2009 Ironman race…) No Bento Box, strips of powerbar on top tube
It also was not a benign day…Jurgen Zack only road 4:35 the same day.
1 Greg Welch AUS 0:50:22 4:41:07 2:48:58 8:20:27
Welchy was state of the art. How does it rate against 2009 technology? It MAY be lacking, mostly in the wheels, but those were very good wheels in their day… 15 years ago. The thin blade aluminum fork probably still tests better than some of the behemoths being marketed today.
not to belabor the point, but one of the reasons he’s probably able to maintain that arm angle could well be that he actually has his weight on his ass and not his forearms.
I’m sure he’d go even faster if move his saddle forward 4 inches, put his arms at 90 degrees and lowered the front end…
I think those are Scott Extreme bars and not the 100k model. Still a terrific bar and featherweight compared to many (most?) of today’s bars. I dug out my old pair of Scott Extremes and have been tempted to install them again.
He’s wearing and aero helmet. I think that they were called ‘Headway’ Helments or something and were out of Aus. Paula Newby wore one as well. They were pretty popular around that time.
Some of Cobbs early fork testing showed that some of those older basic aluminum and steel bladed forks were almost as aero as some of the first true aero models like the ‘Carbonaero.’
With the exception of the 1080/H3/808s, those wheels aren’t that much different than what most of the pros have been riding in Kona the last few years.
