And how pro cycling works is that Sagan may have been wearing a Slovakian jersey, but he was on a Tinkov bike, supported by Tinkov coaches, was given a season program built around Worlds, and possibly had Tinkov riders from other countries covering breaks for him that day.

Dosen’t involve blood?

“When you advance to a national championship don’t you root for a Longhorn if you’re an Aggie? Start thinking that way.”

$100 million sounds like a lot of money, but a new engine alone costs that much in R&D. The money isn’t in selling the GT. It’s in selling V6 F150s with the “same” engine as the GT.

“Froome then got a replacement bike, but it was improperly calibrated, and he almost crashed while trying to get out of the saddle.”

The technique requires coasting, though. If the pace is high, sometimes you’ll see someone do this while getting a push from one or more teammates.

Friction force is mu*m*g. Centripetal force is m*v^2/r. Going around a corner, friction force equals centripetal force or you’re off in the ditch. Solve for v, and you’ll see that the mass cancels out. You can play with things like suspension and sidewall deformation to change the effective mu for a given…

Welcome to Earth, hope you like it here. Increasing mass increases the maximum lateral static friction force that can be sustained by the tire/road interface. But increasing mass also increases the centripetal force generated by going around the corner. So all else being equal, increased mass does not increase the…

Lateral grip is completely independent of weight. On a smooth surface, it’s independent of contact area as well. The skinny bike tire will start to skip on road imperfections though.

Keep in mind that these climbs are on remote mountain passes and the roads get closed early in the day. The fans at the top get there the night before, and by the time the race comes by most of them are absolutely hammered.

Swimming and nordic skiing.

They won’t, but if the cameras don’t stick out very far, they’ll be a lot harder to break in the first place.

Lag on digital displays is getting lower all the time. Right now, tens of miliseconds is easily achievable. And if the camera lens has a hydroscopic coating and heating element, rain and snow won’t cause any more of a problem than they already do with physical mirrors.

There’s also an assumption that someone who carries a gun in a duffle bag or the waistband of his sweat pants is competent enough in its use that it provides any kind of real protection.

Read the fine print; jacks are bizarrely excluded from the Harbor Freight coupon.

This is impressive, but almost impossible to occur in practice. If you tried to use a bottle jack to lift something this much over its load rating, the seals will blow out before anything even moves.

Great saw, but be prepared to spend those savings on a better blade.

Great saw, but be prepared to spend those savings on a better blade.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just put a bunch of IR strobes up on the stage?

He got relegated for taking the Cat5 line and then not holding it. That said, having a single row barrier on the inside of that corner was just stupid. vanPoppel probably could have held that line, but he grabbed the brakes when he realized it would have meant smashing his face into some dipshit fan’s iPhone..

Too bad for him that anyone from Jersey who’s ever sold Trump anything got stiffed.