Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Frankie Moser's Hour Record(*Not so spoiled*) Message-ID: <308@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 10:16:33 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.308 Posted: Thu Jul 4 10:16:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:04:09 EDT References: <1019@druxj.UUCP> <333@varian.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 24 > 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. . . . > 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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)