Track Cycling: Velodrome Racing and Training Area - prototypical track body proportions

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data
10-14-07, 08:04 PM
What kind of body size/proportions do the most successful track riders have.

mezza
10-14-07, 11:14 PM
73 inches tall (6'1")
93 kilo's
27" guads

Oh, WOW, thems my measurements!!


;)
ed073
10-15-07, 01:57 AM
What kind of body size/proportions do the most successful track riders have.


depends on the event, wikipedia the following....

world 1000m TT champion

world 1000m sprint champion

world keirin champion

world 4000m individual/team pursuit champion/s

world Madison champions

Gent 6-Day winners

this should give you a pretty good idea.

data
10-15-07, 07:05 AM
I might be looking in the wrong place, but nothing on wikipedia gives body measurements.
bitingduck
10-15-07, 08:49 AM
but it might give you pictures...

There's also a paper out there somewhere from the Australian Institute of Sport that gives BMI of elite riders vs. event length for the track. I'm smack at the transition between kilo rider and pursuiter, but if I trained a lot would fall into pursuiter unless I lifted a lot of weights.
Ste_S
10-15-07, 08:58 AM
I wouldn't worry about what height or weight you are.

At amateur level, training > genetics.

Probably ;)
data
10-15-07, 10:37 AM
I'd be interested in that austrialian paper if you can find it. I'll give it a search too.
data
10-15-07, 11:34 AM
yea, the australian national track bike page doesn't have it.
bitingduck
10-15-07, 12:06 PM
There's a copy of it posted at Fixedgearfever-- it's the top paper on this page. (http://www.fixedgearfever.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=3)

you may have to register to get to the downloads page.
data
10-15-07, 12:09 PM
respect
data
10-15-07, 02:17 PM
sweet I have the build for a world class sprinter. Now if only I had been biking for the previous ten years and my lungs can handle it.
ed073
10-15-07, 04:22 PM
I might be looking in the wrong place, but nothing on wikipedia gives body measurements.


pictures.

Measurements mean nothing.
eriksbliss
10-15-07, 07:18 PM
sweet I have the build for a world class sprinter.

Oh, that's nothin': I've got the BMI of two world class sprinters!
Voodoo76
10-15-07, 07:58 PM
Oh, that's nothin': I've got the BMI of two world class sprinters!

Sort of a one man olympic sprint team :lol: