Recent content by davidg

Damn, it was raining in the tunnel as well? That is just reckless!

Actually, I think that you have missed the point. You are perfectly correct in your statement, and so was the prior poster who commented about the cricketer who was king-hit and later died. Head injuries come from all walks of life. The difference is that in other areas people have a freedom of...

What a ridiculous argument. So to follow to its conclusion, helmets should be mandatory when you go out drinking? FFS

Oooh! sarcasm. Since when did the forum have any relevance to the post topic. Maybe we could have a parallel thread in each of the other forums, best track sprinter, best mountain bike sprinter, best doped sprinter (Oh wait a sec) :D

I dont know if you mean road sprinter, since you posted in that sub-forum, but Koichi Nakano won the World Track Champs 10 times. For anyone to be at the top of their game for that long is fairly impressive. For the road I will put Maertens up as the benchmark with 16TDF stages, 13 Vuelta, 3...

Even more worrying is the fact that it is considered quite OK for motorists to be cocooned in their metal shell, with music on and not paying attention to where they are going. It is irrelevant that he was on a bicycle, except for the fact that he was always going to fare worst in an accident.

Thanks for that. It is the only time I have seen measured data for Merckx. Interestingly (or maybe predictably) it fits nicely into the figure that I have always thought to be about the limit of achievable output, ie 6-6.2W/Kg.

So that makes two critters asleep when Cancellara attacked in P-R

Why does it have to be called 'motorised doping' Is it for effect? Surely it is just cheating, or is the F1 car with illegal bodywork doped as well. FFS! BTW - The Italian show is a p155take

that is not what he is saying. He is saying that the mechanism is not what was previously thought, not that it doesn't matter. It is still a physical effect that occurs at a point relative to exercise effort

This is why the Aussie swimmers are so good. Most of them train in the rivers near Darwin. The slower ones become croc food.

1/ Ventoux is notoriously windy, making estimates difficult. If you can get the true SRM or powertap data....... 2/ I fail to see how a sanctioned doper can be a reference point for a clean effort 3/ you are correct. Peter Keen has only been working on this for some 25 years so what does he...

Agreed, but as I said 'the effect of surface, wind direction etc is greatly reduced'. The more variables you can eliminate or reduce, the more accurate your result.

There is always someone to being in an irrelevance - lol. Actually Bannister and Merckx both fall into a similar category, being that they achieved their records before there was any question of products like EPO being used. This is why the Merckx record is such a good one. I am not...

OK, almost time to close this thread. Has been an interesting journey from cycling to legal definitions, with the obligatory visit to the clinic. Starting tomorrow I will be waiting to see how quickly the next thread gets put up. Feel free to cut/paste from this thread. 'Who was the real...