Pros vs the rest of us

[TNT1]

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".

[Jakkals.]

Sounds like he has a below avg 5min profile ????

[IceCreamMan]

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)

 

[Tim Brink]

A list of FTPs (lord knows how accurate) here: https://procyclinguk.com/pro-cyclist-ftp/

 

Weep-worthy. 

[TNT1]

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.

[Bateleur1]

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.

[vanniri]

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

 

 

 

 

[J Wakefield]

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. 

 

[Yyyy]

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.......

 

[babse]

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? 

[J Wakefield]

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 

[J Wakefield]

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 

[Bateleur1]

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.

[lechatnoir]

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

[Sitting@89]

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?

[Shebeen]

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?