UCI Track World Cup Moscow: Bikefanclub.com

I've posted a couple of pikkies from the UCI Track Classics World Cup in Moscow.

Tom Steels rode the Madison. Other than that, no quasi-famous roadies here. No Bradley McGee or Baden Cooke. The Aussies didn't even send a team, probably because the Aussies are nothing if not practical, and it's 33 & beautiful in Melbourne/Sydney right now while it's -15 here in Moscow. The Lithuanians won the 4k team pursuit in the absence of the Aussies, a whopping 7 seconds off the World record set by Australia at the Worlds last year in Stuttgart.

Steels and his partner Matt Gilmore crashed twice in the Madison qualifying, as the field here is fairly weak for a World Cup and there were a couple of _REALLY_ bad pairs mucking things up like mobile chicanes.

The last three days have been sunny here, amazingly. I've been to Moscow three times and this is the first time I've ever seen the sun.

We're using the new Lynx photo-finish cameras this week, which my friend Doug DeAngelis developed mostly for for motor racing. They sample at a jaw-dropping 10,000 frames per second. All the other cameras on the market, like Omega and Alge, are down around 2,000 frames per second. Really, really COOL American technology from Lynx System developers. Nice to see an American company kicking ass and taking names in international sport.

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