yup.
Rise Of The Dead said:
No they can't... The untrained person doesn't have the strength/strength endurance of an elite rider, so comparing them two extremes is way off.
Strength isn't a factor in road cycling???... How about you go & say that to Fabian Cancellara.
Your way off....
Yup, I agree...
BigBoat said:
Muscle strength like you see in body builders or even sprinters bares no real resemblance to Grand Tour success unless you goal is to win some flat stages.
Muscles are the engines of the body. You can increase the size or efficiency of the engines, or improve the fuel delivery system, or the quality of the fuel, or all of the above, or any combination.
BigBoat said:
If you go to Robbie McEwen's web pages and look at him his muscle strength isnt that impressive either. I can get more strength in chest and thighs after 3 weeks in the gym.
Really? What's your measure? How are you determining that?
BigBoat said:
The real cycling doping increases 02 carrying,.
That's part of the equation but you really can't separate the fuel and delivery systems from the engines they're feeding.
BigBoat said:
Lances secrets lie in increasing his V02 max. Like blood doping with his own blood for starters as somebody else showed a picture of.
Yeah, because for the most part he already has the legs.
BigBoat said:
Dr. Ferrari's success as a dope guru has to do with increasing the sustainable power of his riders with 02 doping..
It's not like Ferrari didn't have anabolic/recovery agents on his menu though.
BigBoat said:
My mom has enough strength to push 500 watts on a bike, its not very hard.

Maintaining that for a 5 minute effort wont happen for her, let alone an hour.
For how many revolutions?
There are all sorts of compromises made to win a GT but it seems obvious that you need a high level of strength/anaerobic, and aerobic capacity to win either sprints, classics, or Tours.
Most of these arguments on here seem to be based on semantics.
I'm just guessing, but your comments lead me to believe that you have a lot of power on the bike for top end speed, but lack the ability to hold that, or a substantially lower speed for any great distance. Others, such as myself are trying to solve the opposite problem.