The wages of cheating
It’s not fake. Just so you know.
“Veronica Ivy” enters the race. Burnaby Velodrome.
Updating to add, h/t Dave Ricks:
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It’s not fake. Just so you know.
“Veronica Ivy” enters the race. Burnaby Velodrome.
Updating to add, h/t Dave Ricks:
I do hope that Mr. Lardy Lardarse, beater of women’s records, didn’t injure that poor assistant.
If he gets any fatter he might have to start identifying as a child to win races.
This video shows good form. The holder sets the bike in position on the track, then the cyclist mounts the bike. Then for each pedal, the cyclist *clicks* the shoe cleat to the pedal, then adds a strap from the pedal over the shoe.
This photo of Ivy appears to be from the same event as the video that rip4nutmeg posted (Burnaby Velodrome celebrating 25 years). Ivy looks too fat to reach the strap for his rear foot in this position. So he had to click in and strap in before going on the track, and his holder had to push Ivy on his bike uphill to the start. The holder had both feet to the left of Ivy, and Ivy fell to the right.
Well Dave beat me to the “wait that’s not how you do that” but I can add that it’s really important to have the initial pedal position right and that poor assistant will have to lift up both L McL and part of the bike once they get to the line. Also if you ever get a chance to see races at a velodrome it’s worth it and don’t sit in the stands.
The clip appears to be for a match sprint which is a crazy event or at least it can be. One of those things where you think they’re going to sleep and then high speed crash and die! It’s a 3 lap (1km) sprint but usually the first 2 are jockeying for the final sprint and they’ll come to a halt if they can. On that final sprint they’re wheel-to-wheel and the rider in front doesn’t have to stay in the lane until they enter it at a certain distance before the finish (entering the 4th turn I think). They crash surprisingly rarely.
I spent the late 70s to mid 80s both spectating and racing (free development program) at the Trexlertown velodrome. I sucked at sprints.
I’ve watched it 3 times, and I’m crying. Has anyone else seen that video of rhinos mating, where the male falls off and just lies there, dazed and confused?
“The big moose is back!” — I hear he’s changing his name to Bullwinkle. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNj_-14Exhs Go easy on the cereal Rhys. :P
Are we sure the dazed and confused rhino identifies as male?
Now I’m thinking about it, I think it would be unwise to question a rhino’s gender identity.