Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
comparing a 10-25 mile tt to a few hundred meter sprint is completely hilarious.
Exactly. The fact that decent racers on dedicated time trial bikes wearing aero kit go about 25 mph shows just how preposterous your original claim really was. Glad you've learned how risible your claim was. This is what you posted:
Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
sigh.
i can do 36ish for a few mins when i stand up and full on sprint on a 17 lb road bike. but when i'm done sprinting i want to puke. methinks another commuter needs to recalibrate their bike computer (and/or stop guessing).
It's also completely hilarious that "a few mins" has shrunken to "a few hundred meter sprint".
So, are you now saying that it takes you "a few mins" to complete "a few hundred meter sprint"? If so, that would also be completely hilarious given your initial exaggerated claims of sprinting prowess.
25 mph is a high cat5 to cat4 speed for a flat tt course. Nothing to write home about. And once again if you actually took the time to *read* what I wrote you would realize i was discussing a brief sprint. in fact, hitting mid 30s on a full on sprint is relatively easy (~100 rpm in the big ring) for any fit rider on a road bike. maintaining it for more than 10 seconds is difficult but not impossible. (especially if conditions are favorable.)
In what universe is "more than 10 seconds" anything equivalent to "a few mins"? Now all you're posting about is "hitting mid 30s". For a handful of seconds.
The way you're backpedaling from your initial absurd claim of "i can do 36ish for a few mins", you probably should run your chain in a figure 8, pedal backwards on your bike, and actually go "36ish for a few mins".
Glad to see in your case it wasn't your bike computer that needed recalibrating - it was YOU. Else you'd be a hypocrite to go along with being a preposterous braggart.