Originally Posted by krazyderek
Well my vo2max watts is 350, but i can peak at 747 watts, 503 watts for 1 minute.
I bet that site is off, but i'd say you where working pretty much in that ball park of 559 judjing by your reaction after. sucks doesn't it ? lol
As for the guy that says he can do 1400 watts...ummm.. i thought lance peaked out at 1000 watts or something?, or maybe that's his mean for like 1 min, and your 1400, is your peak that you hit for like 5 or 6 seconds?
1000 would be for a non sprinter. Cipollini has a max in a sprint of something like 1900 watts. The bigger factor is power to weight in climbing. If you can put out 300 watts at 120lbs you're better off than 400 at 175 lbs. Then you could also move into the track cyclists who don't have to conserve energy over long distance or go up hills so they tend to be larger and more powerful. Marty Nothstien can put out something like 2200 watts, but he's a big boy.