odličan je ovaj blog...mislim da sam ga već čitao, ali dobro se podsjetit nekih stvari!

mislim da su prikazani izračuni jako dobar pokazatelj stanja u biciklizmu nekad i danas...

"There's a lot of data there but slide your finger across from a time of 38:30.  That's the kind of performance (or faster) we saw in the previous generation.  Then consider the more recent times - Frank Schleck did 40:46 in 2006, the first time in 12 years they didn't break 40.  The best performances in the last 3 years are all slower than 41 minutes."

ovo su podaci o usponu na Alp d'Huez...znači, do 2006. su redovito išli 38:30 ili ispod, a nakon toga se vrte vremena oko 41 minute! ogromne razlike...zanimljivo (Lance Armstrong je 2001. išao 37:36, 2004. 38:01...a sad prcaju Contadora kojem treba 3 minute više za isti uspon)

podaci o "power outputu" potvrđuju anomalije, tj. ultra sumnjivu snagu koju su svi redovito prikazivali...

- "In the last four years, none of the Tour's decisive HC climbs have been done at greater than 6 W/kg"
- "...calculations of climbing power output in the Tour de France in the 1990s and 2000s often estimated that top riders maintained power outputs of 6.4 to 6.5W/kg on the Tour's HC climbs, most of which take over 40 minutes to climb." (danas takve omjere postižu na TRI puta kraćim usponima)

situacija je jasna - ili su danas svi invalidi i nemaju ni približan talenat ko biciklisti 90-tih i ranih nultih...ILI....