Tour de France

[marty]

here's the link.

http://ida1.physik.uni-siegen.de/menn/hourrec.htm

i'm not even sure i'd believe 56 minutes for 30 miles being possible on the road, unless you were a TDF time trial legend - that's still around the 53km/h mark.

maybe 25 miles. then i'd start to believe. hell even i could do an alright 40k time trial (after a swim of course) but my best out of the water was only 1.03. couldn't run for shite after that one though!

(edit)
LANCE did the 55km ITT at the 04 TDF in 1.06.49. and he's not a bad rider.

[mattt]

here's the link.

http://ida1.physik.uni-siegen.de/menn/hourrec.htm

i'm not even sure i'd believe 56 minutes for 30 miles being possible on the road, unless you were a TDF time trial legend - that's still around the 53km/h mark.

maybe 25 miles. then i'd start to believe. hell even i could do an alright 40k time trial (after a swim of course) but my best out of the water was only 1.03. couldn't run for shite after that one though!

(edit)
LANCE did the 55km ITT at the 04 TDF in 1.06.49. and he's not a bad rider.

Well here's food for thought, and shows the efficiency of the human body / inefficiency of a motor with all the moving parts etc.
Lance could probably put out roughly 0.6-0.8 Kilowatts for that race. Top sprinters put out 1.3 Kilowatt in their 70kph sprints. Not sure what a nifty50 puts out, but it'd be 10x this at least for the same effort???

[curious george]

OK, so who's got SKY?
Rub it in, how good was the TT?
I only saw the result, any opinion if it's gonna be an interesting race this year?
I see Landis is with another team, hows Jan goin?
*curses SKY and extortinate prices!!!!*

[That Guy]

George you can come and record as much of it as you like if you want at our place. damn tour is on all the time at the moment

[curious george]

WTF!?!! I thought you cancelled it!
See ya in 15 mins!