- Well, I am at the mount and dismount line
of The Championship race
and the pros are literally about to come through here.
So, I thought we'd have a bit of fun here.
I'm going to commentate as they come through
and they mount their bike and then they dismount,
and give you a few tips on how to mount the bike
and maybe in the heat of the moment
maybe how not to mount and dismount your bike.
Slightly unexpected. (upbeat music)
That was cutting it quite fine actually.
Completely missed the dismount line.
Very nice and clean that one.
I wasn't expecting that.
Oh, whoa, ah-ya. (upbeat music)
Phwooargh, look at that.
Go on then, Andy! (upbeat music)
Okay so they're about to come through for the mount now, T1.
Obviously, the idea is that you mount after the line,
and it could be any point after the line.
So, if there are bunch of athletes,
you could always nip round them and keep on running
so you've got clear space.
What you're going to find with a lot of these pros
is they're actually going to have their bike shoes
attached to their bike already.
Which means they're going to do a flying mount onto their bike,
which is very quick if you get it right.
(upbeat music)
Okay, I don't actually who it is,
but going for a flying mount.
Oh, and... (people groan)
Okay, not a good start.
First one, not so great. (laughs)
See, that's what happens, got to,
well, narrow section of road here.
Flying mount on, concentrating on so much there,
looking straight down,
doesn't realize that he's actually veering off, so yeah.
A lot to think about.
Wait for the next one now.
Okay, so we've got Maurice Clavel coming through here.
Peter Heemeryck, Thomas Davy from the UK.
And he's gone for a slightly slower, sort of
almost stopped and then put his foot over.
Feet straight into the shoes though, same with Peter.
Adam Bowden did it a lot quicker there.
See what we mean?
Talking about, like, they're trying to mount
and then guys are jumping on behind,
almost going into the back of their wheels,
so it can get quite condensed here
but that was a big pack coming through there.
(upbeat music)
We're seeing various different mount styles here,
so I'm actually going to time a few of them here
from the mount line through to, well,
there's a blue bin on the left there.
So, it's a short period or a short section,
but actually could be quite decisive
if you're trying to get away from a group
or close a small gap.
He's gone for a stop mount from the line.
I'm going to time it to the bin, just on the left there.
Okay, so that was seven seconds.
This guy's got...
Okay. (upbeat music)
Well, you know what I said about
putting the foot on the shoe first?
(laughs) That one didn't work.
He obviously just lost his balance.
He couldn't get his foot onto the shoe so ended up
stumbling along for a second.
And then we got Andi Dreitz coming through now.
Be interesting to see how he mounts.
This looks fast.
Hoo!
We, well, to the same point there,
compared to the guy that stopped,
that was three seconds, okay?
So, we're talking four, maybe even
five seconds quicker than the stop mount.
(upbeat music)
He's having a little bit of difficulty with his train,
I'm not going to talk too loudly here
because I don't want to stress him out too much,
but he's running a one-by set up,
so potentially it's bounced off as he's come through.
- [Joe] Wait, wait, wait.
- So, the chain's actually got looped,
which is little bit of a shame.
But yeah, he's not actually allowed mechanical assistance,
so the chap is kindly holding his bike for him,
but Joe is trying to sort it himself.
Here we go, I think we've got it now.
Obviously, some fairly precious time lost there.
And given that he was a little bit down out the swim anyway
I'm sure it's not really what he wants.
He's just going to put his bike shoes on now,
rather than trying to mount the bike
with them on there already.
Well done, Joe. (crowd applauds)
- [Fan] Good job, Joe! (crowd applauds)
- We were literally talking,
well over a minute lost there.
I think we're on about 1:20
from the time that he crossed that line
to the time he actually left.
(upbeat music)
all right, so really cool one here.
We've got para-athlete Andy Louis coming through here.
He's an absolute superstar athlete.
Be interesting to see how he mounts.
Phwooargh, look at that!
Go on then, Andy.
We've got Lucy Charles coming through now.
- [Fan] Go Lucy! - All right.
(crowd applauds) (crowd yells)
They go for a stop, leg over, play it safe.
(crowd yells)
Yeah, I mean Lucy doesn't come from an ITU background.
She's not used to, like, fast-paced transitions,
but that was pretty slick considering
it was just a stop, pop your leg over.
So, yeah, not too much time lost there, just played it safe.
Okay I think this is Anya Ipak coming through.
Over the mount line, she's gone for the step and over.
Very nice and clean, that one.
(upbeat music)
All right, so another thing
that I'm actually picking up on
having watched some of the pros
is actually when you start putting
your feet into your shoes,
or start actually strapping your shoes up,
so some of the athletes have managed
to now getting their feet straight
into their shoes, which is fantastic.
Some, like myself, I would always
just put my feet onto the top. My feet are just too big,
I just can't fit them in that quickly.
But, what I'm finding as we go back through the pack
is some of the maybe less experienced athletes
are actually trying to, like,
strap their shoes up at a slow speed.
What I would suggest is actually get that speed up,
and here we've got a corner coming up here,
they probably want to get down the road,
get some speed up, and then you start
thinking about putting your feet in
and then strapping your shoes up and what not.
So, just get that acceleration up first of all,
rather than weaving all over the road
whilst you're still at a slow pace,
trying to strap them up and maybe colliding with others.
(crowd applauds) (crowd cheers)
Just as Dave does.
They've managed to get their feet in straight away.
Plowing on down the road, getting some speed
up into that corner, and then
they'll start doing their shoes up,
and guess on that next straight.
(upbeat music)
We're now moving over to our dismount line,
which is moments away from our
leader coming through, Peter Heemryck.
So, now for a little bit of dismount analysis.
All right, so we've got our leader
Peter Heemeryck coming in here,
so he has to dismount before the line.
(crowd cheers) He's coming in now.
Oh, just going for a stop here, actually.
Slightly unexpected.
Okay, but he's playing it safe.
(crowd cheers)
So, yeah, stop, foot down, dismount, leg over.
Slower but safe, so good call.
Okay, next athlete coming through is,
I believe, Andi Dreitz.
He's made up a lot of time here.
Oh, no it's not, no it's not.
I take that back. (crowd cheers)
There we go, so very slick.
She's gone for a flying dismount there.
Believe Florian Engert, maybe?
Don't judge me.
Here we go, so leg over, they actually,
So, flying dismount, now this is interesting actually.
So, he took his leg over behind him
and actually kept it behind the other one.
So, a lot of people try to bring that leg through,
so then they jump off as Andi has just there.
So, makes it a little bit slicker,
so when you, when you actually jump off the bike
your leg is then ready to run off,
whereas before he had his leg behind,
so then you're jumping off
and having to sort your legs out on the move.
So, just an interesting thing to note there.
Okay, so we've got Ben Kanute coming in here.
Obviously, ITU background,
so I'd expect this to be pretty slick.
Yeah, leg over.
He's actually bringing it through
as I've just mentioned, and boom, there we go.
(crowd applauds)
Smooth dismount there.
Solid, okay.
Another one coming through.
Left the leg behind. (crowd applauds)
Sebastian Keinle coming in.
All right, slick. (crowd cheers)
So, another thing to note there is
obviously they have their hands on the handlebars,
so as they're then stepping off
then they're moving quickly to their saddle,
so it's easier to sort of run in a more upright position.
You can kind of hold the bike ahead of you
so you're not clipping your shins onto the bike shoes.
And Adam Bowden coming in,
so ITU athlete, pretty slick I'd imagine.
There we go, yeah, nice and smooth.
Just a thing to note, as well,
as we just saw there is obviously he jumps off the bike,
shoes start spinning around because they're not
held up by elastic bands at this point.
If that happens, you can end up
with, like, the bike flying everywhere,
so it can sometimes just help just to lift the saddle up,
so when you jump off just grab it
by the saddle and hold it up a little bit.
It allows the shoes just to settle
and stop spinning quite so much.
(crowd applauds) (upbeat music)
Well, back to taking your feet out pf the shoes,
I was interrupted by athletes coming in there.
But yeah, we've got a nice long straight here
so they can get their feet out quite late,
but if you know that the dismount line
is perhaps straight after a little
bit of a technical section,
you may want to actually plan ahead
and get your feet out before you
get into that technical section.
I used to actually quite like doing that.
I get them out a little bit earlier maybe than some people
and it just allowed me to really
hammer it into that last section,
and just you know you're ready
and you're not panicking last minute.
Well, we just heard that actually Dani Alablemo,
and I believe Rudi Wilde, have to serve a penalty
when they come in off the bike.
I believe because they actually
mounted just before the mount line.
So, let's actually take a look at that.
(upbeat music)
Yeah, so what this means is now
when they come in on this dismount line going to transition
there will be a penalty book somewhere within transition
or early on in the run course
and they have to serve that penalty.
At this race it's 30 seconds, which could be quite decisive.
Here we have Lucy coming in.
Now, Lucy's is a little bit more reserved
normally with her dismounts, but that was a quick one.
(crowd cheers)
So, she's gone for a flying dismount.
Very different from her mount,
but I wasn't expecting that. (laughs)
Gave myself up for a stop, leg over, but yeah.
Very good by her, obviously been practicing.
Now, I've got to say actually
that did look a little bit sketchy,
like she was maybe a bit out of control.
So, what actually she, little tip for Lucy here,
is she stayed on her handlebars way too long,
so she was almost like running like she was leaning forward.
So, obviously just going to carry momentum there,
so what she would want to do is like
literally switch from the handlebars
straight to the saddle as soon as she can,
as we saw with the likes of Sebastian Keeney
and stuff doing earlier.
Behind her we've got Anya Ipak.
Oh, that was cutting it quite fine actually.
(crowd applauds)
Don't know if I'd risk it that much.
That was borderline being over then,
and I can see the technical official
actually questioning it now, so.
Got another athlete coming in here pretty fast.
I don't think they've realized this is the,
Oh, whoa, yeah. (crowd moans)
That is why you do a course right here, guys.
Completely missed the dismount line,
and I don't think they even know.
They're going to find out when they get around there.
Yeah, well that was a little bit silly,
but actually worth taking a note on this one
because you can get to the end of these kind of bike lengths
you're going to be absolutely shattered,
so if you don't know where that dismount line is
it's very easy, you know, to be seeing stars of all sorts
and just miss a massive sign like that,
which I know seems really obvious
with us just standing here now,
but when you're in the zone
and you're just knackered you may well miss that,
and unfortunately that may even be, well,
not just a penalty, it might even be
a disqualification for this guy.
(upbeat music) All right, so we've got Ratka coming in now.
She's a ex-ITU athlete,
so I can imagine this being pretty slick.
She's got her leg over, (crowd cheers)
and she's gone for flying dismount.
Steadily done, but yeah, nice and smooth.
Well, this has been absolutely fascinating,
I never really had the opportunity
to stand at a mount/dismount line and just analyze the pros.
Having been involved in racing before,
I just sort of assumed everyone else
did a flying mount and dismount.
Did you see what they do?
They have missed the dismount line.
Didn't think that would happen in pro racing, see?
Yeah, she's going back to try and sort it out.
Not sure that's going to help, you've missed it,
but anyway, so yeah, I mean, even the pros get it wrong,
and actually, even the pros do
very basic mounts and dismounts.
They stop, put their leg over, so I wasn't expecting that,
but I guess the takeaway advice from this is
stay within your comfort zone.
Don't just try and do something for the sake of doing it,
and well, maybe costing yourself time.
If you stopped and put your leg over and ran through safely,
yes, you might lose yourself a couple of seconds
but you might be avoiding yourself a penalty or a mishap.
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