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Originally Posted by mechBgon
The real question is who had more blinkie, and did they have adequate amounts of it or not. Anyone can have a PowerTap rear wheel and still be completely noOb on their blinkie layout, you see that all the time.
Why, just today there was some guy on an R600 riding along with a PowerTap wheel and a carbon fork in his backpack and would you believe he had NO BLINKIE AT ALL. :eek: I made sure to pass him a few times so he could appreciate my superior visibility and maybe learn something (although the Nova isn't installed yet, but still). Then he went flying by really fast, and dropped a $50 bill as he was zooming away. I tried and tried to catch up and give it back, but he was going too fast, so I blew it all on pizza instead. :) ;) Exactly. This being the commuter thread and not Foo, the question on everyone's mind is how many watts was R600DuraAce putting out with his lights? |
Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Just as curiosity, R600, do you actually race? What category? any results you'd care to share?
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Just as curiosity, R600, do you actually race? What category? any results you'd care to share?
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I want to see R600DA take on Lance.
Not someone who looks like Lance, but Lance himself. |
Originally Posted by CardiacKid
Once again you have finished last in a 1 man race. Congratulations.
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I think Euro and R600 should race each other down the MUP.
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Originally Posted by slvoid
And yet... still too chicken to race us. Plenty of commuters here in NYC to kick your ass. Come on, we've been calling you out for ages and you keep chickening out. Just one race, come on... actually one of the guys just made cat 4 and I'm a hundred bucks or so away from buying my own cat 4 license so don't worry, I'll be looking for the races you do, shouldn't be too hard beating someone who consistently finishes dead last in races so he has to brag about dropping commuters to boost his ego.
They are just dumbasses, like that dumbass MTB commuter doing the "Fast and Furious" stuff. I am just waiting my thread to go 7 pages long without me having to read any one of them. They are worthless carp...... BTW, if any of these dumbasses think they have the balls, come to Prospect Park on 6AM this Saturday. Why? There is the NY Empire State Qaulifying races. Race format is simple. All fields racing the same distance. 77 miles. 22 laps in the park. The first top 10 will represent NYC in the NY Empire State Olympic game. All fields (Pro 1/2/3/4/5). If you have a MTB, sure, use it to race and maybe you can try to pull one of these tricks the MTB commuter was doing. And blame your result because you were racing with a MTB commuter weighting 30lb. Yeah, Slovid??? |
The guy on the MTB wanted a challenge and that is what he got. R600DA is on target this time.
If you've ever done a fitness test on a bike you know that kicking out the kind of numbers he was talking about ain't just whistlin' Dixie. |
Originally Posted by badkarma
I think Euro and R600 should race each other down the MUP.
THAT would be classic :D |
Originally Posted by badkarma
I think Euro and R600 should race each other down the MUP.
And my word for R600 is..... "Tool" Complete and utter. |
Well at least he's consistant. Once an idiot always an idiot. BTW your cp30s wattage is pretty freaking unimpressive as is your cp5min. Next time you want to brag at least make up some numbers that mean something.
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Originally Posted by flythebike
The guy on the MTB wanted a challenge and that is what he got. R600DA is on target this time.
If you've ever done a fitness test on a bike you know that kicking out the kind of numbers he was talking about ain't just whistlin' Dixie. Ok rushing in where angels fear to tread, 440watts for 30 seconds and 290 watts for 5 minutes is extremely pedestrian. Unless you weigh 120 pounds, these are OTB numbers in a Cat 5 race. |
Since this is a commuter thread I really have to ask the original poster...
Who cares how much wattage you produced? Next we will have the road rage forum. |
I blew by a couple of roadies on my way in to work this morning. Uphill. No wattage, no cyclocomputer.
Of course, they may have been over 50 miles already and I was just starting out. Do I care? Not really. Why should you? *yawn* I think I'm done looking at this thread. :) |
Originally Posted by bbattle
Exactly. This being the commuter thread and not Foo, the question on everyone's mind is how many watts was R600DuraAce putting out with his lights?
I just realized he can save a lot of batteries if he got a tandem and had R600 powering his lights while he biked. |
I didn't read the other responses but am curious as to #1, why you would post something like this, and #2 what was this "guy asking for"?
Are you trying to impress forum members? If so, why would this impress anyone? |
"I didn't read the other responses but am curious as to #1,"
At least read the classic tractor post, FGS. Post #17. Greatest BF post ever. You owe it to yourself. What the h-e-double toothpicks is "wattage" anyway, and why the heck should I care? And why anally retentive wise try to measure if it ain't gotta do with a light? Or even when it does? So little I understand, I must be insignifigant. Oh, well, at least I got the tractor post. Did I mention the tractor post? |
Originally Posted by slvoid
In this category, I believe 2manybikes with this multiple HID lights would win. Somewhere between the lupines, L&M's, and niteriders, I believe he's sporting the equivalent of 3-400 watts of light...
I just realized he can save a lot of batteries if he got a tandem and had R600 powering his lights while he biked. |
Originally Posted by R600DuraAce
Yeah, whatever man. Just makes sure you don't pull that kind of **** on your commute to another rider decking out with a local team kit, added with a power tap wheel. And carrying backpack. You will expect the worst. You will get dropped. And come here crying about racers are snobs. :)
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Heck, I would have been annoyed too, with the same guy in a mepassyoupass game. I would have won by either blowing his doors off, or seeing how long he could stand a steady 4 mph.:D
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Originally Posted by fmw
After dropping a 200 HP John Deere tractor with 4 wheels in the back, the farmer raised his fist and shifted into overdrive. Smoke poured from the stack and his hay baler began bouncing on the pavement. His challenge was clear. I was spinning up a 42% grade into a 45 mph headwind with 60mph gusts. When I saw the raised fist and the forward lurch of the John Deere, I shifted into my 53 ring and mashed down hard. As I approached the top of the hill, I was spinning at 28 mph. I think this was a personal best on a 42% grade. I decided that what I really wanted to do was to ride circles around the farmer so I descended the hill hitting 79 mph, screeched to a halt and did the climb one more time, reaching the summit just before the tractor, dropping it a second time. The farmer bowed in appreciation and respect and the two of us headed off in different directions. I wish I had recorded the watts. Must have been a lot them, though.
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Originally Posted by jsharr
Have you looked into getting a large digital readout mounted on your backpack that displays your wattage to the riders you just dropped?
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Yea, the tractor bit is the best. It had me laughing out loud here at work.
But seriously; I say we take up a collection and get that MTB rider on a decent road bike and then watch him blow Mr. 600Durace into the weeds. I ride a single speed. Does that mean I have just one watt... or what? Anyway, I'm no slouch, but I've been surprised on more than one occasion by day laborers riding 35 lb Walmart mountain bikes in denim jackets and work boots. Sure, I might have been toward the end of a 40 mile ride, but these guys can throw down some watts of their own. Perhaps thats because they ride because they have to, not because they want to. DanO |
Originally Posted by slvoid
In this category, I believe 2manybikes with this multiple HID lights would win. Somewhere between the lupines, L&M's, and niteriders, I believe he's sporting the equivalent of 3-400 watts of light...
I just realized he can save a lot of batteries if he got a tandem and had R600 powering his lights while he biked. :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: excellent. You need to warn me to turn away from the monitor if I have coffee in my mouth ! I'm going to get busted for laughing too. I really am LOL. :lol: So I turned up my lights to 400 watts......... and I put the hammer down..............mechBgon was close behind, he was drafting in the electromagnetic field. All of a sudden slvoid went to high beam and came from behind at the last second..........he was running TWO Nightrider tailights ! ! The reverse magnetic field in his tailight cables swung him around like a track racer. He dropped us both......the spirit of Ringo lives on. Next week....... mech brings the big guns ! The new tailight! |
Originally Posted by Urban Shooter
Why do people continue to bore us with their wattage?
My little converter here says 440watts is about .59 horsepower. But where did he get the figure in the first place? |
Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Ok rushing in where angels fear to tread, 440watts for 30 seconds and 290 watts for 5 minutes is extremely pedestrian. Unless you weigh 120 pounds, these are OTB numbers in a Cat 5 race.
Everybody just loves to pick on R600DA. I personally think it is annoying as heck when other people start racing you when you're just doing your thing. So that is why I took his side. |
Originally Posted by genec
I just want to know how they accurately measure it.
My little converter here says 440watts is about .59 horsepower. But where did he get the figure in the first place? |
Originally Posted by R600DuraAce
I shifted into my big ring and on my 53 x 14. Stood up and attacked.
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Originally Posted by flythebike
Well I suppose you're right, but I don't know about OTB in a 5 race. I don't really train with watts, though I have had a fitness test. My max wattage at exhaustion was like 420 or something, so 430 didn't sound bad to me - but the test started at 100 watts and went up 20 watts every minute, so by the time I was a max wattage I had been over threshold for 6 minutes. I mean, I'm a cat 3 with the points to cat up to 2 so I realize among racers he isn't like Lance but those numbers aren't that bad if he kept going 290 for a lot longer, anyway - but at that point he had dusted the guy.
Everybody just loves to pick on R600DA. I personally think it is annoying as heck when other people start racing you when you're just doing your thing. So that is why I took his side. See http://www.cyclingpeakssoftware.com/...profile_v4.gif |
Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Flythebike, that would indicate to me that your LT watts are somewhere in the mid 300's, consistent with an average sized Cat 3. I'd bet your 30 second critical power would be more like 600 to 700 watts. Way above R600's 290 for 5 minutes, and 430 for 30 seconds.
See http://www.cyclingpeakssoftware.com/...profile_v4.gif If you are going to brag at least do it with some impressive superman type numbers. |
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