Thursday, July 28, 2016

TdF Speed Trends 1947 - 2016 - take 2

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Following on from yesterday's post , here's another take on TdF speed trends post WWII: As usual, right click to see larg...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

TdF Speed Trends 1947-2016

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Just putting down a placeholder for this chart for reference since I had cause to look at the data recently. I'll come back to this ch...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Bemusing aero equipment choices at the Tour de France

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2016 Tour de France. Stage 18 ITT Megève. GC contenders giving away time with bike set up choices. Why? Here's the course profile : ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

FTP variability (and doping)

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In one of the five hundred and twenty five thousand online forum threads about why Chris Froome is or is not a doper, one of the questions r...
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Friday, December 04, 2015

Looking under Froome's hood

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A little over two years ago I wrote about the relationship between four key underpinning physiological parameters that determine a rider...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Kona power meter usage trends: 2009 to 2015

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Update for 2015 based on the Lava Magazine bike count data . Previous posts links showing trend data up to 2013 and 2014 are here: http://...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

When your ride buddy becomes a real drag

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A question that comes up from time to time when chatting about aerodynamics stuff is how much impact does another rider in close proximity h...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Alpe d'Huez: TDF Fastest Ascent Times 1982-2015

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Update of the Alpe d'Huez climbing times and speed chart previously posted here and here . Read those previous posts for discussion of c...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Climbing power estimates: Windbags II

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No specific comment, I just wanted to create a public link to the following 2014 study investigating the accuracy of climbing power estimate...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Aero for slower riders. Part II

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A couple of years ago in this blog item I explained how there really aren't riders too slow to gain speed benefit from an aerodynamic i...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

W/m^2, Altitude and the Hour Record. Part III

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In my previous posts on this topic I explored the impact of altitude on the hour record. You can recap by clicking on the links here: W/m^...
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