Being skinny vs not

[Wyatt Earp]

You remind me of my mother at the sweet shop telling me I can have a chocolate OR a packet of chips.  I WANT BOTH

Too much chips and chocolates have never made good sprinters or climbers .

[blondeonabike]

Too much chips and chocolates have never made good sprinters or climbers .

Just downhill QOM's

[SwissVan]

You remind me of my mother at the sweet shop telling me I can have a chocolate OR a packet of chips.  I WANT BOTH

 

Where you in the sweet shop or outside looking thru the window?

 

From a cycling perspective you first have to be able to finish in the front group to contest the sprint...

 

wax on wax off...weight on weight off....

 

[Paulst12]

Its all about sustainable power to weight ratio. For a heavier guy to keep a higher power output level is just not sustainable unless they have some super human genetics.

So if you look at general power levels, output for riders tend to range from 200 watts to 350 watts for the average race.

 

For example if a cyclist produces a maximum minute power of 350 W during a cycling ramp test and weighs 77 Kgs the power to weight ratio [P/Kg] is expressed as: P/Kg = 350/77 = 4.54 Watts per kilogram of body weight

A cyclist weighing 100 Kgs achieving the same maximum minute power would have a power to weight ratio [P/Kg] of: P/Kg = 350/90 = 3.50 Watts per kilogram of body weight.

The big advange will come if the heavier guy starts to lose weight. Thats when his sustainable power output will be of major benefit
 

[Pants Boy]

Why are people so worried about climbing, I will never be able to out climb myself .

 

Because some of us like to 'race' the middle of the pack, between mates / club members / guys we see regularly at races. Some of us enjoy the small 'wins', precisely because we'll never get the big 'wins'. Is that so bad?

[Wyatt Earp]

Because some of us like to 'race' the middle of the pack, between mates / club members / guys we see regularly at races. Some of us enjoy the small 'wins', precisely because we'll never get the big 'wins'. Is that so bad?

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[Surv0MTB]

Being a heavier rider, was 109kg now about 96kgs with riding mates who are at around 70kg a piece.. I have always suffered on the climbs. Much better now than before but they still push past me quite easily.

 

However, flats and downhills I can take them, maybe small hills.

 

Lighter you go there is definitely an upward curve to the power to weight ratio compared to bigger guys. The amount of strength I need to match their climbing ability far outweighs the strength they need to maintain it it seems.

 

The weight is going though, and I am catching up

[Pants Boy]

Well Wyatt, when's the last time you had a win?

[Wyatt Earp]

Well Wyatt, when's the last time you had a win?

Yesterday Pants Boy .

['Dale]

Well Wyatt, when's the last time you had a win?

Wtf

[Pants Boy]

Cool story bro.

[Wyatt Earp]

Cool story bro.

Totally ,you must see what the other guy looked like .

[MTB_Roadie]

Its all about sustainable power to weight ratio. For a heavier guy to keep a higher power output level is just not sustainable unless they have some super human genetics.

 

So if you look at general power levels, output for riders tend to range from 200 watts to 350 watts for the average race.

 

 

For example if a cyclist produces a maximum minute power of 350 W during a cycling ramp test and weighs 77 Kgs the power to weight ratio [P/Kg] is expressed as: P/Kg = 350/77 = 4.54 Watts per kilogram of body weight

A cyclist weighing 100 Kgs achieving the same maximum minute power would have a power to weight ratio [P/Kg] of: P/Kg = 350/90 = 3.50 Watts per kilogram of body weight.

 

The big advange will come if the heavier guy starts to lose weight. Thats when his sustainable power output will be of major benefit

 

 

With weight loss you lose muscle and power fact! I have been training more intensly since my weight loss where I got alot fitter, If I had to keep my power while dropping the weight I would have been a machine.

 

Part of my weight was muscle that I had to lose to tone down certain parts of the body as I used to build it in the gym, so like the famous mr.Wakefield always say.....You can't be a top cyclist and look like a fitness model...you need to choose.

[Yusran]

We just love a Bromance, have you guys set a date yet?

 

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[Mountain_Goat]

Interesting topic.. I only weigh about 51kg and fly up all the climbs but only to get caught on the decents and eventually as the pace picks up i get spit out the back of the bunch... So how does one increase his power output? weight training and riding heavy gears?

[gasworx]

Just as a matter of utter annoyance towards this thread.....

I CAN'T CLIMB FOR S#1T!!!!!! OK........

But then on the long flat sections I pretty much suck as well....

Ag f'kkit....carry on......