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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: RE: a moment for the neutral support mechanics
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:28:22 -0500
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On 7/25/2025 4:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Fri Jul 25 14:42:21 2025 AMuzi  wrote:
>> https://www.wsj.com/sports/tadej-pogacar-tour-de-france-crash-mechanic-2da6796d
>>
>> "Their job is to help riders with mechanical issues or
>> supply spare wheels when their own team cars are too far
>> away or stuck behind the peloton. If they?re on screen, then
>> something has usually gone wrong. The neutral service
>> mechanics know better than most that while the Tour de
>> France can only be won at a few critical junctures, it can
>> be lost pretty much anywhere."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've been watching Neutral support for the last couple of days and they have a real handful. There must be three or four wheel standards and the through axles can be 12 or 15 mm. They should be setting real standards rather than dictrating how narrow your handlebars can be. Also the LENGTH of through axles needs to be standardized. It is all erll and good using a reversible electric drill eith an allen head to install or remove through axles but they have to be the same length. And that has to do with the thickness of the ends of the chainstay axle mounts.


Some might say that standards are wonderful and so we ought 
to have a lot of them.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971