[OSM-talk] Le Tour de France gps tracker

[Laurence Penney]

My brother went to a "materials in cycling" conference just before the 
Tour came to London. He told me that on the most advanced bikes 
there's quite a bit of weight allowance left over, since it's now 
relatively easy to make a TdF bike under the 6.8 kg minimum weight 
(UCI regs). Teams are filling this allowance with gadgets. He only 
mentioned physiology telemetry, but GPS would be obvious to add in 
there. Car magazines these days use high-end GPS for speed measurement 
in road tests, so it could be best for bikes too.

-- L

Andy Robinson wrote:
> Le Tour has a nice gps tracker this year:
> 
> http://eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/livematch/171223.html#
> 
> Then click on the "GPS System" on the right hand side.
> 
> It's probably on the accompanying car rather than the bikes themselves
> (though the bikes do have some tracking equipment fitted)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
> 
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk