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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Bicycle race training technique
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:23:59 -0600
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On 2/14/2025 11:20 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> 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.

To you.

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Andrew Muzi
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