Originally Posted by
RiceAWay
I watched the power meter of a Cat 1 hitting 1600 watts coming out of a turn and accelerating up the straight. If he had a 10% calibration error that still put pro sprinters up to 2 kilowatts for a short period of time.
Hardly any pro sprinters are anywhere close to 2,000 watts at the end of the race. Griepel is probably the hugest and most powerful and is one of the only guys close to that.