All sorts of random thoughts on the Tudor Cycling Team
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
A Daring New Approach to Professional Cycling.
www.tudorprocycling.com
First, Tudor makes great watches, and a moderately affluent dude sport like cycling is obviously a good marketing fit for them, much like IMSA racing is.
- Why black jerseys? Maybe this comes from growing up in Florida on a bike, but bike races are in the summer, and black is HOT.
- Tudor Cycling Marketing suggests that their riders like to wear Black Bay Chronos. Nice watch. I like it. Would I beat one up on a road bike hitting bumps and such and expect it to stay regulated? Probably not. Am I babying my mechanical watches too much? Maybe. I don’t know. I’ve gone for short bike rides with a mechanical watch on. I think twice about going for a long ride, though, because I dont want to shake the movement to death. When I bike commute to work, I put my mechanical watch in a shock absorbing case and wear a G-Shock until I’m at the office.
Are any of you into cycling (either road, or for commute/fitness)? If so, what are your thoughts or experiences of wearing a mechanical watch on a bike? I think about a Reverso being designed for people getting jostled by polo ponies, and I wonder if I’m being too conservative with what my mechanical watches are suited to do.
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Daniel
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal’s Law
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I too think this is an odd pair. I don’t think you baby mechanical watches too much. I don’t wear mine for anything more aggressive than a brisk walk or it’s the G-Shock getting subbed in. I also need watch therapy so maybe I’m not the best example.
Maybe just to
Another (vintage) watch just popped into mind that’s relevant… The Rolex Explorer 1016 that Eric Wind has that was owned by a rodeo rider (and used in a Rolex ad) that was stepped on by a rodeo bull! The crystal obviously didn’t like that much, but it does show that a rodeo rider was wearing the thing for up to 8 seconds on the back of a very mad piece of sirloin steak.
Would I wear my Explorer on a rodeo bull? Nope. (Would I ride a bull? Also nope.) Are mechanical sports watches perhaps more resilient than I’d think? Very possibly. I don’t know. It has me thinking.
Dude, I used to do like 1,000 miles a month, when I lived up in Northern Utah - everyone there was always training for Logan-to-Jackson. Knowing what I know now, would I wear a mechanical watch while cycling? F*ck no! The cycling computer would give you everything you need to know, right? Phone in the jersey pocket also, yeah? Maybe a Suunto heart rate monitor on your wrist?
Back then, I did always wear my watches while cycling, but mostly only because I always had them on, and couldn't be f*cked to take them off. And I ended up smashing to smithereens something like 10 different beautiful, amazing Kenneth Cole Reaction quartz watches from Costco.
If you got a nice mechanical watch that you like, why?
Eddie Merckx sporting a Rodania Permadate, including on the 1973 Paris-Roubaix “Hell of the North” punisher. #rodania #vintage
https://www.fratellowatches.com/tbt-selectron-and-rodania-permadate-eddy-merckx/
Eddie Merckx sporting a Rodania Permadate, including on the 1973 Paris-Roubaix “Hell of the North” punisher. #rodania #vintage
https://www.fratellowatches.com/tbt-selectron-and-rodania-permadate-eddy-merckx/
@chronotriggered & @Aurelian This was a new complication for me… Any experience or familiarity with these Rodania Permadates? This is weird enough to go on my Chrono24 watch list.
Still trying to picture Merckx bouncing along cobblestones at 30 mph and thinking, “I wonder what date the third Thursday of this month will fall on?”
@chronotriggered & @Aurelian This was a new complication for me… Any experience or familiarity with these Rodania Permadates? This is weird enough to go on my Chrono24 watch list.
Still trying to picture Merckx bouncing along cobblestones at 30 mph and thinking, “I wonder what date the third Thursday of this month will fall on?”
Rodania: originally Rodana, changed name and no one knows why, Swiss, but concentrated on the Belgian market because of a good office manager. I know that brand, but not that watch. Wittnauer and Raketa each had similar calendar watches, but neither is that clever.
"When I bike commute to work, I put my mechanical watch in a shock absorbing case and wear a G-Shock until I’m at the office. "
"Am I babying my mechanical watches too much?"
Yes you are! Unless your cummute looks like this ;-)
"When I bike commute to work, I put my mechanical watch in a shock absorbing case and wear a G-Shock until I’m at the office. "
"Am I babying my mechanical watches too much?"
Yes you are! Unless your cummute looks like this ;-)
Well maybe it does! 😉
For those interested in the topic of bikes and bicycling with watches, a good Hodinkee article and comments thread…
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/whats-the-best-watch-for-cyclists
tl;dr - if you have Hodinkee insurance, go ahead and YOLO with your Rolex.
I too think this is an odd pair. I don’t think you baby mechanical watches too much. I don’t wear mine for anything more aggressive than a brisk walk or it’s the G-Shock getting subbed in. I also need watch therapy so maybe I’m not the best example.
Maybe just to
Nope - I agree.. My mechanicals even a Turtle or a Willard are light duty only.. G-shocks are what I bike in - Or anything beyond light duty
Dude, I used to do like 1,000 miles a month, when I lived up in Northern Utah - everyone there was always training for Logan-to-Jackson. Knowing what I know now, would I wear a mechanical watch while cycling? F*ck no! The cycling computer would give you everything you need to know, right? Phone in the jersey pocket also, yeah? Maybe a Suunto heart rate monitor on your wrist?
Back then, I did always wear my watches while cycling, but mostly only because I always had them on, and couldn't be f*cked to take them off. And I ended up smashing to smithereens something like 10 different beautiful, amazing Kenneth Cole Reaction quartz watches from Costco.
If you got a nice mechanical watch that you like, why?
LOL what is with you and these Kenneth Cole Reaction watches 😂
LOL what is with you and these Kenneth Cole Reaction watches 😂
You know how they do these studies on what people remember? And it's like the brain's memory banks are almost always filled up with memories from college and other "big life change" periods. So, like, in terms of "brain space," the 4 years of college take up the equivalent of 30 years of adult life memories, or some such crap. 'Cause, adulthood is boring, and you do the same sh*t everyday, and all your dreams have died, so none of it is memorable. But, college is super memorable, because it's the first time you've met people from all over the world, and it's the first time you've really experimented with drugs, and it's first time... blah, blah, blah.
Unfortunately, all the experiences normal people had in college, I think didn't happen for me until my late twenties / early thirties! And, the Kenneth Cole Reaction watch was the watch I always wore at that time!
Yeah, man, Kenneth Cole Reaction... that's where it's at!
You know how they do these studies on what people remember? And it's like the brain's memory banks are almost always filled up with memories from college and other "big life change" periods. So, like, in terms of "brain space," the 4 years of college take up the equivalent of 30 years of adult life memories, or some such crap. 'Cause, adulthood is boring, and you do the same sh*t everyday, and all your dreams have died, so none of it is memorable. But, college is super memorable, because it's the first time you've met people from all over the world, and it's the first time you've really experimented with drugs, and it's first time... blah, blah, blah.
Unfortunately, all the experiences normal people had in college, I think didn't happen for me until my late twenties / early thirties! And, the Kenneth Cole Reaction watch was the watch I always wore at that time!
Yeah, man, Kenneth Cole Reaction... that's where it's at!
Hilarious :)
UPDATE: The POTUS rides a Trek while wearing his #omega SMP, crashes, and I bet the watch did better than the bike with the fall…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-falls-off-bike-on-delaware-ride-with-first-lady-says-im-good/ar-AAYCoua?ocid=BingNews&fullscreen=true&cvid=619c79aeb1c64c699c7262bc186726d3#image=2