TNT1 Posted May 19, 2021 Share 1 hour ago, IceCreamMan said: there is a lad in my cycle club, he is knocking about in the top top amateur ranks in the UK. Just needs a lil luck and assistance to land a pro gig. The lad is a phenomenal machine. I have no idea of his power outputs but he drops me like a stone within a quarter mile, in fact he drops the entire club in a mile. The difference in ability is like me racing 46. its worlds apart. All we get from this is that you and your club are relatively *** sleg. It says nothing about the "lad". IceCreamMan, peetwindhoek, mecheng89 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakkals. Posted May 19, 2021 Share Sounds like he has a below avg 5min profile ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCreamMan Posted May 19, 2021 Share 48 minutes ago, TNT1 said: All we get from this is that you and your club are relatively *** sleg. It says nothing about the "lad". Mea Culpa.... but i had a good laugh. Its just astounding how good ppl can become at something. Cycling is one of the few sports where we can conceivably compete with the pros. )sort of anyway) TNT1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Brink Posted May 19, 2021 Share A list of FTPs (lord knows how accurate) here: https://procyclinguk.com/pro-cyclist-ftp/ Weep-worthy. EddieV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT1 Posted May 19, 2021 Share 14 minutes ago, IceCreamMan said: Mea Culpa.... but i had a good laugh. Its just astounding how good ppl can become at something. Cycling is one of the few sports where we can conceivably compete with the pros. )sort of anyway) Compete... Ride with occasionally is more like it. I did many, many miles with Vinokourov back in the 90's and more recently many, many miles with Pritzen over December. In racing at their level I'd be dropped like a used condom. WrightJnr and IceCreamMan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted May 19, 2021 Share 1 hour ago, Tim Brink said: A list of FTPs (lord knows how accurate) here: https://procyclinguk.com/pro-cyclist-ftp/ Weep-worthy. I look at the Power and think ... ok not too bad. Then I look at the weight and think .... ag gaan k@k man. There will be nothing left of me if my weight drops to that. In a good year I will drop to 82 and then the wife gets all nasty and mention I better start putting on some weight. batmobile, Frosty, Sid the Sloth and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanniri Posted May 19, 2021 Share 21 minutes ago, Bateleur1 said: I look at the Power and think ... ok not too bad. Then I look at the weight and think .... ag gaan k@k man. There will be nothing left of me if my weight drops to that. In a good year I will drop to 82 and then the wife gets all nasty and mention I better start putting on some weight. Are you familiar with the term Trilabis? It means all Tril and Ribbes You probably need to be Afrikaans to understand it mecheng89, Dexter-morgan and Bateleur1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Wakefield Posted May 19, 2021 Share 2 hours ago, Tim Brink said: A list of FTPs (lord knows how accurate) here: https://procyclinguk.com/pro-cyclist-ftp/ Weep-worthy. MvDP wont have a threshold of 6.5wkg. Sid the Sloth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yyyy Posted May 19, 2021 Share 2 hours ago, Tim Brink said: A list of FTPs (lord knows how accurate) here: https://procyclinguk.com/pro-cyclist-ftp/ Weep-worthy. Would be interested in in Roglic, Pogacar , WvA and Ganna's numbers. That FTP for MVDP seems a bit overstated compared to other analysis done on his power profile before....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babse Posted May 19, 2021 Share 2 hours ago, J Wakefield said: MvDP wont have a threshold of 6.5wkg. Isn't Matt producing a similar ftp (480) and he is about that weight as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Wakefield Posted May 19, 2021 Share 1 hour ago, babse said: Isn't Matt producing a similar ftp (480) and he is about that weight as well? Matt is 80kg / 480W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Wakefield Posted May 19, 2021 Share 3 hours ago, YaseenEnos said: Would be interested in in Roglic, Pogacar , WvA and Ganna's numbers. That FTP for MVDP seems a bit overstated compared to other analysis done on his power profile before....... I don’t know what WVA/Roglic or Ganna are; but Roglic would be pretty close either side of Tadej Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted May 19, 2021 Share 4 hours ago, vanniri said: Are you familiar with the term Trilabis? It means all Tril and Ribbes You probably need to be Afrikaans to understand it Ek verstaan mooi. mecheng89 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechatnoir Posted May 20, 2021 Share I'm reading Chris Hoy's autobiography (a good read btw) and his peak power of 2500W is astounding. Then again, he writes of how he competed as a teenager in MTB, and his dad would wait for him to finish when everyone else had gone home, believing Chris to have had some issue that prevented him from finishing. At a similar time, he was competing in the world's BMX champs. Sure, many years before he became the legend we know him to be, but it goes to show the difference in power profiles for various riders. It's a rare beast that has the ability to do great sprints and fantastic long, hard efforts. Those are the riders that generate many threads here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitting@89 Posted May 20, 2021 Share 10 hours ago, J Wakefield said: I don’t know what WVA/Roglic or Ganna are; but Roglic would be pretty close either side of Tadej Based on this I would guess Primoz's FTP to be somewhere around 420w maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted May 20, 2021 Share 16 hours ago, TNT1 said: Compete... Ride with occasionally is more like it. I did many, many miles with Vinokourov back in the 90's and more recently many, many miles with Pritzen over December. In racing at their level I'd be dropped like a used condom. is this true? like you rode with him on a team for a season or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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