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The Hitch said:
What's the joke. Reads like a non sequitur to me.

Joke being if they are random enough to just abolish one date from the calander, they might be random enough to just insert another willy nilly.

It's not Richard Pryor or anything, but I saw the joke, all the same.
 

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Netserk said:
No that wasn't the joke.....

Fair enough, non sequitor it is then. Unless it's some odd reference to women asking men to marry them or something specific to that day...which to be fair, would be non sequitor anyway...
 
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Justinr said:
What point are you trying to make about Porte?

As far as I read it, the main point is that David Walsh doesn't know anything about mathematics:

"For the first half of the time trial he was sitting at 413W, and for the second half it was something like 387W. It actually averaged on a bang-on 400W."

If one just assumes the average percentage on the first half and second half of the Col d'Eze are the same (which seems to be confirmed here), a higher power output will simply mean he drove the first half of the TT faster than the second half. The power output of the second half will then have a greater contribution to the average than that of the first half and it should be well below 400W.

The average could indeed be very close to 400W, if David Walsh lives under the impression that the time measurement was done exactly halfway in the TT, while the previous link shows it was at 5.5 of 9.6km.
 

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As far as I read it, the main point is that David Walsh doesn't know anything about mathematics:



If one just assumes the average percentage on the first half and second half of the Col d'Eze are the same (which seems to be confirmed here), a higher power output will simply mean he drove the first half of the TT faster than the second half. The power output of the second half will then have a greater contribution to the average than that of the first half and it should be well below 400W.

The average could indeed be very close to 400W, if David Walsh lives under the impression that the time measurement was done exactly halfway in the TT, while the previous link shows it was at 5.5 of 9.6km.

Assuming of course that the 5.5km measure is the one used by Sky. Is it not beyond the bounds of possibility that they actually measured it themselves halfway? Or is that not suspicious enough for the conspiracy theorists...

Nowhere in the Walsh article does it state that it was measured at 5.5k ...
 

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HSNHSN said:
As far as I read it, the main point is that David Walsh doesn't know anything about mathematics:



If one just assumes the average percentage on the first half and second half of the Col d'Eze are the same (which seems to be confirmed here), a higher power output will simply mean he drove the first half of the TT faster than the second half. The power output of the second half will then have a greater contribution to the average than that of the first half and it should be well below 400W.

The average could indeed be very close to 400W, if David Walsh lives under the impression that the time measurement was done exactly halfway in the TT, while the previous link shows it was at 5.5 of 9.6km.

(413 * 4.8 + 387 * 4.8) / 9.6 = 400

(413 * 5.5 + 387 * 4.1) / 9.6 = 401.8

I'm not sure whether measured at 4.8 or 5.5 makes all that much difference, mathematically.

Perhaps someone could do the same calculations dividing for time rather than distance.
 

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roundabout said:
11'24" to the split, 19'16" total time.

This whole measuring debate is stupid.

How can there be a debate. The sky guys were doing the talking and measuring, Walsh said it was half and half. No one knows whether that measurement was taken at 5.5 or 4.8 or whatever. The link posted and the innuendo that it meant doping is complete nonsense.

It really does make me laugh when people attack Walsh. This is the journo that for years people were respecting for his stance on LA, etc. and then when he spends time with SKY and comes back with a view they don't like they claim he is bent, wrong, been bribed, is "SKYs *****", etc.
 
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Justinr said:
How can there be a debate. The sky guys were doing the talking and measuring, Walsh said it was half and half. No one knows whether that measurement was taken at 5.5 or 4.8 or whatever. The link posted and the innuendo that it meant doping is complete nonsense.

It really does make me laugh when people attack Walsh. This is the journo that for years people were respecting for his stance on LA, etc. and then when he spends time with SKY and comes back with a view they don't like they claim he is bent, wrong, been bribed, is "SKYs *****", etc.

I totally agree there. What I tried to be saying before, was clearly misunderstood. The meaning was indeed to say there was only one strange thing in that text by D. Walsh and that was something to do with mathematics, not doping (in fact, my point is that the average power is lower than Walsh claims). There are lots of dubious things to say about team Sky, but the contents of this article most certainly don't contribute to those.

It also wasn't meant as an attack to Walsh at all. More like an attempt to point out what was wrong in the mathematics. Apparently I should have pointed out that something was wrong in his mathematics, not what exactly. When it comes to this:
Justinr said:
Assuming of course that the 5.5km measure is the one used by Sky. Is it not beyond the bounds of possibility that they actually measured it themselves halfway? Or is that not suspicious enough for the conspiracy theorists...

Nowhere in the Walsh article does it state that it was measured at 5.5k ...
I was actually assuming Sky measured it themselves, halfway through the course. Why else would Walsh mention values from both halves of the course?

To hopefully quench this once and for all, I'll try to explain this by giving a similar example (after which I'll ignore the topic). Suppose you're climbing a mountain at 3km/h. Then you turn around and walk back along the same path at 6km/h. What is your average speed? Walsh would tell you that it is (3+6)/2=4.5km/h. However, it isn't too hard to calculate that, in fact, it is 4km/h. The reason for this is basically that speed - just as power - is inversely proportional to time. The situation is comparable, since the value of one quantity is known, both in the first and in the second half.

(A last remark is that this is a mistake that is made quite often, especially by journalists.)
 

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HSNHSN said:
I totally agree there. What I tried to be saying before, was clearly misunderstood. The meaning was indeed to say there was only one strange thing in that text by D. Walsh and that was something to do with mathematics, not doping (in fact, my point is that the average power is lower than Walsh claims). There are lots of dubious things to say about team Sky, but the contents of this article most certainly don't contribute to those.

It also wasn't meant as an attack to Walsh at all. More like an attempt to point out what was wrong in the mathematics. Apparently I should have pointed out that something was wrong in his mathematics, not what exactly. When it comes to this:

I was actually assuming Sky measured it themselves, halfway through the course. Why else would Walsh mention values from both halves of the course?

To hopefully quench this once and for all, I'll try to explain this by giving a similar example (after which I'll ignore the topic). Suppose you're climbing a mountain at 3km/h. Then you turn around and walk back along the same path at 6km/h. What is your average speed? Walsh would tell you that it is (3+6)/2=4.5km/h. However, it isn't too hard to calculate that, in fact, it is 4km/h. The reason for this is basically that speed - just as power - is inversely proportional to time. The situation is comparable, since the value of one quantity is known, both in the first and in the second half.

(A last remark is that this is a mistake that is made quite often, especially by journalists.)

Thanks for your reply and explanation. I like the last example you gave.

However as no info on measurement was given in the article other than half and half i stand by my initial comment - no conclusion can be drawn on anything, and people posting smileys cant claim so.
 
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the sceptic said:
And thus, little Ritchies dream of winning a grand tour has ended :(

But what if he gets to the TdF and pulls a "Froome" by riding Chris off his wheel?

And what if he pulls, what would then become known as, a "Porte" by disobeying team orders and accelerating away to his own Malliot Jaune? :eek:
 

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