How Does Equipment Last?

[ColonelJLloyd]

Originally Posted by verticaldoug

These guys only look big standing next to one another.

Who said these guys look big? At a glance I'd say there is no one on that stage 6' tall.

[nooneline]

Originally Posted by verticaldoug

These guys only look big standing next to one another. Put a football, basketball or rugby player in the mix, and they are runts.

Barry Bonds or Bo Jackson on a bike looks scarier.
Both in their prime would have put out a heck of a lot more watts ATMO too.

Uh no

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by verticaldoug

These guys only look big standing next to one another. Put a football, basketball or rugby player in the mix, and they are runts.

Barry Bonds or Bo Jackson on a bike looks scarier.
Both in their prime would have put out a heck of a lot more watts ATMO too.

[m_sasso]

Originally Posted by ColonelJLloyd

Who said these guys look big? At a glance I'd say there is no one on that stage 6' tall.

Haha, the skinny guy Theo Boss is 6 foot 2 inches!

[tv_vt]

It would be interesting to see how these guys do on a normal group road ride in hilly terrain. Sure, they're not world class climbers, but perhaps they'd do totally fine in anything less than ProTour/World Tour level.

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by tv_vt

It would be interesting to see how these guys do on a normal group road ride in hilly terrain. Sure, they're not world class climbers, but perhaps they'd do totally fine in anything less than ProTour/World Tour level.

Theo Bos could definitely handle "normal group ride hilly terrain". He's not a Sastre, but he has been Sastre's teammate, etc. Not bad for a World Champion track rider.
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[m_sasso]

Originally Posted by tv_vt

It would be interesting to see how these guys do on a normal group road ride in hilly terrain. Sure, they're not world class climbers, but perhaps they'd do totally fine in anything less than ProTour/World Tour level.

Teo Boss road results. Don't know about you, however I know he would punish me on a group ride.

2009
Olympia's Tour
1st Prologue & Stages 1, 2 & 4
1st Ronde van Noord-Holland
1st Omloop der Kempen
3rd Ronde van Overijssel
4th Beverbeek Classic
2010
1st Clásica de Almería
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Murcia
Vuelta a Castilla y León
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Points classification
2011
Tour of Oman
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st Tour de Rijke
1st Stage 6 Tour of Denmark
1st Dutch Food Valley Classic
2nd Delta Tour Zeeland
8th Scheldeprijs
2012
1st Dwars door Drenthe
1st Dutch Food Valley Classic
1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
Tour of Turkey
1st Stages 1 & 8
1st Stage 3 Eneco Tour
1st Stage 2 World Ports Classic
3rd Clásica de Almería
3rd Scheldeprijs
2013
Tour of Hainan
1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 9
Tour de Langkawi
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Stage 2 Volta ao Algarve
1st Stage 1 Critérium International
1st Stage 3 Glava Tour of Norway
1st Stage 2 Ster ZLM Toer
8th Scheldeprijs
9th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
2014
1st MaillotCyan.PNG Overall World Ports Classic
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
Tour de Langkawi
1st Stages 2, 7, 8 & 9
1st Stage 3 Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 4 Tour of Alberta
2nd Handzame Classic
3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurometropole
1st Stage 3

[m_sasso]

Meanwhile Cavendish is trying to kill cats at the Ghent Six-Day track event.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oth...hent-race.html

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/b..._CAVENDISH.mp4

[nooneline]

Originally Posted by tv_vt

It would be interesting to see how these guys do on a normal group road ride in hilly terrain. Sure, they're not world class climbers, but perhaps they'd do totally fine in anything less than ProTour/World Tour level.

you know, sprinters - even world-class ones - get a "one-and-done" reputation, but it's pretty undeserved. i raced against a bunch of sprinters with serious palmares at TTown all summer long. They'd enter plenty of the Tuesday night endurance races, and plenty of them - including one guy on the podium in the original post, and a bunch of other guys who went to the world cups the past few weeks - hung just fine. Even when us enduros were trying desperately to snap the leash.

i was in a group with Ed Dawkins in a points race that had been pretty hot. a group of at least four riders were off the front scooping up points in the last third of the race but we'd been motoring pretty hard chasing them. so, i remember getting all hot to trot for the final sprint, going for finishing order, thinking that maybe the others in my group, Dawkins included, might be the right combination of cooked and unmotivated for that final sprint. i started coming around Dawkins, and he looked at me like a lazy dog and with a lean on his pedals just absolutely blew me out of the water.

[muz]

Going back to the original question, perhaps the equipment doesn't last. Two heavy and strong guys I ride with often break stuff. One breaks a frame at least once a year, another has broken two Dura Ace cranks, typically all warranty replacements.