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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: Bicycle race training technique
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:20:37 -0800
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:30:37 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 2/14/2025 10:15 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 2/13/2025 7:00 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>
>>> Time Trials no the road isn’t closed they have code names 
>>> harking back to
>>> it being illegal, and be large dual carriageways, 
>>> depending on the location
>>> might be held earlier in the day, though not always.
>> 
>> Some here might not know about the days when time trialing 
>> was illegal in the UK. Roger might want to give a quick 
>> summary of the situation and the work-arounds.
>> 
>> Today in the U.S. some advocates have pointed out a 
>> potential disadvantage of having a bicycle legally defined 
>> as a vehicle: It may make bicyclists in technical violation 
>> of certain anti-racing laws - for example, when a cyclist 
>> and a buddy sprint for the next telephone pole. In at least 
>> some states, advocacy organizations closely monitor proposed 
>> traffic laws to ensure that certain ones apply only to 
>> _motor_ vehicles.
>> 
>
>Illegal?  In my youth, TT was widely popular in England and 
>moreso there than anywhere else!
>
>https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2018/09/10/the-surprising-origins-of-time-trials/
>
>https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/cms/ctt/history
>
>And back to the earlier point, TT in traffic can result in 
>some startling times even though riders are sort of honor 
>(honour) bound not to draft.  Which is why English TT times 
>regularly beat world and Olympic records in those days.

Are time trial racers also honor bound not to use performance
enhancing drugs and gasses?  The discussion is about using carbon
monoxide to temporarily increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the
racers blood.  I would guess(tm) that such things are not worth the
risk.
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