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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Frankie Moser's Hour Record(*Not so spoiled*)
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 10:16:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 10:16:33 1985
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> 1-- If Moser had beaten the hour record by 200 meters and then collapsed,
>     I would agree that the his equipment had alot to do with it.  In fact,
>     he beat the record resoundingly twice in a row!  The *man* pushing the
>     pedals did that, not the bicycle. 
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>     This is not to say that a delta
>     bike with moon discs will not improve time trial times.  It will.  But
>     it won't make a second rate rider the world's hour record holder.
>     I've been associated with racing for 12 years and the myth amoung the 
>     press and the naive fan is persistant that equipment can make enormous
>     differences in performance of otherwise equal riders.

Amen.  As they say, "It's not the bike, it's the motor!"

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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