by -Adam- » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:51 pm
[quote="Antloony"]Yep he's 15.
When you say more restricted gears I presume you mean at the rear? All I know is that they check his bike after every race he's in to determine his highest gear ratio so it complies with the rules.
It's the gear size in inches Ant. So if Jack has a 53 big ring, he's gonna need a big cassette to comply with the regs. The youths on my team all use compacts, I think, so a 50. Meaning a more normal cassette can be used, but even then, you still need a cassette starting from something like a 15/16. The gear restricitions will be on the BC website.
His bike will be checked at every race, at the start. If it isn't, and someone crys foul play, which I have heard happen a few times, he'll just get disqualified retrospectively. Not good. This is why I think that youths and and to a certain extent juniors should be on their restricted gears all the time, so they know how to ride them. For example I've just got back from a threshold session, where half the set was to be done in the 39x16, f*** me it was hard to spin fast enough to keep the olf HR going.