| Re: Basso's gift
"Rick Warner" <rickwarner@NOTVALIDearthlink.net> wrote:
> Except, the finish is when the front wheel crosses the plane
> of the finish, so the separation is really a bike and a half or
> a bit more.
There are two separate issues here - the time at which the riders cross the
line, and the separation used to determine if a split has occurred.
> Possibly could be a second in reality, but would not want
> to bet on it unless I had some good equipment ;-)
For a 3 metre gap to equate to a second would require Armstrong and Basso
to be sprinting at less than 7 miles per hour. Do you really need equipment
to tell you whether that's realistic?
James Thomson
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