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We can wear the rainbow stripes with pride. (3K Team Pursuit Champions)
Last Post 12/10/2020 11:54 PM by Orange Crush. 6 Replies.
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79pmooney

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12/10/2020 12:07 PM
(Sorry, OC, not you.)

Yesterday, at the World Pandemic Games, the US posted the fasted time ever in the Team Pursuit to 3K deaths per day.
Orange Crush

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12/10/2020 12:39 PM
Not a world record though. In October 1918 there were 195,000 deaths due to spanish flue in US.

That is a whooping average of 6500 deaths per day for 30 days straight.

79pmooney

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12/10/2020 12:52 PM
That was done using faired recumbents. The current record is to the Eddy Merckx standard.
Orange Crush

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12/10/2020 12:54 PM
But on the flipside the number of participants in that race was much smaller. The current event has a much larger field at the startline.
79pmooney

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12/10/2020 03:00 PM
Still, those Spanish made bikes were really fast! Thankfully, under UCI we are back to more normal speeds.
longslowdistance

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12/10/2020 11:41 PM
Better soigneurs today.
Orange Crush

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12/10/2020 11:54 PM
Yes those Chinese knockoff frames are clearly not as good as the original.

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