Power to weight ratio

[fandacious]

You think you're good? Think you can push some big watts? Check the world record 5min.

 

That means someone weighing 70kg pushes an avg of 532 watts for 5mins. ****me gently with a chainsaw...

 

Men
	5 s	1 min	5 min	20 min
World Champion/World Record Holder	23.5	11.5	7.6	6.62
	23.16	11.35	7.46	6.5
	22.82	11.2	7.33	6.38
	22.48	11.05	7.19	6.26
World Class	22.14	10.9	7.06	6.14
	21.8	10.75	6.92	6.02
	21.46	10.6	6.79	5.91
	21.12	10.45	6.65	5.79
UCI Div. I/II Pro	20.78	10.3	6.52	5.67
	20.44	10.15	6.38	5.55
	20.1	10	6.25	5.43
	19.76	9.85	6.11	5.31
UCI Div. III pro	19.42	9.7	5.97	5.19
	19.08	9.55	5.84	5.07
	18.74	9.4	5.7	4.95
	18.4	9.25	5.57	4.84
Cat. 1	18.06	9.1	5.43	4.72
	17.72	8.95	5.3	4.6
	17.38	8.8	5.16	4.48
	17.04	8.65	5.03	4.36
Cat. 2	16.7	8.5	4.89	4.24
	16.36	8.35	4.75	4.12
	16.02	8.2	4.62	4
	15.68	8.05	4.48	3.88
Cat. 3	15.34	7.9	4.35	3.76
	15	7.75	4.21	3.64
	14.66	7.6	4.08	3.53
	14.32	7.45	3.94	3.41
Cat. 4	13.98	7.3	3.81	3.29
	13.64	7.15	3.67	3.17
	13.3	7	3.53	3.05
	12.96	6.85	3.4	2.93
Cat. 5	12.62	6.7	3.26	2.81
	12.28	6.55	3.13	2.69
	11.94	6.4	2.99	2.57
	11.6	6.25	2.86	2.46
Untrained	11.26	6.1	2.72	2.34
	10.92	5.95	2.59	2.22
	10.58	5.8	2.45	2.1
	10.24	5.65	2.32	1.98
	9.9	5.5	2.18	1.86
Note: Values are displayed in watts/kg. The weight should be the weight of the body only. Bicycle, kit, water bottles, etc? are all excluded

[fandacious]

CSC's Fabian Cancellara, world TT champ, won Tour of California Prologue TT at an average speed of 35mph, with an even astonishing 3 minutes and 51 seconds, thats a 4 second lead over the second man in - Team High Road's Bradley Wiggins, who is also a 2 or 3 time Olympic medal holder back in 2004 in the short pursuit discipline.

 

Fabian is 80 kilograms and one can very well take his average Power to weight ratio to be 7.6 in the 5 min category (referenced from table above, and I still believe thats a little on the low end).

 

You do the math, Fabian was nearly producing 608 Watts and above for almost 4 minutes (again, that figure is possibly a little low for Fabian but you get the big picture?).

 

Thats the power an average novice rider can produce for 10-12 seconds at most, if he's in his best moods.

[fandacious]

Anyone wanna buy my bike. I think i've just given up cycling

[WorcesterWheelers]

I hope to be able to at least make it onto the stats tomorrow.......

1.86 for 20min at the Helshoogte hillclimb TT.....

Only reason I'm riding is so I can get a reference point on how k@k I really have become over this winter and the past few months......

[fandacious]

1.86 for 20min at the Helshoogte hillclimb TT.....

 

so more like a power to "wait" ratio?