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From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y07/may31news2
"Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." -- JT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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On May 31, 8:07 am, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote: Fromhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." I'm metric-challenged. What's that in furlongs per fortnight? R |
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On May 31, 5:07 am, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote: Fromhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." According to Lafferty this can only mean that Simoni is a doper. Remember, his claim was that since Lance's Tour times were faster than other's before him who were doping then he HAD to be doping to go faster. |
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John Forrest Tomlinson schreef:
From http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...y07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM This is proof they didn't dope after all. -- E. Dronkert |
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On May 31, 1:12 pm, RicodJour wrote:
On May 31, 8:07 am, John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: Fromhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." I'm metric-challenged. What's that in furlongs per fortnight? VAM is not really a useful measure of climbing speed. The steeper the climb, the higher the VAM will be for the same power output, compared to a shallower climb. So on a climb like Zoncolan, it will be pretty high. The only time you can fairly compare VAMs is when the climbs are of similar gradient. Then you may as well compare average speeds. Or power. Out of interest, I used http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm to estimate the power it would take someone of my weight (72kg ish) to get up Zoncolan on a 7kg bike. I included an extra couple of kilos for clothing/water. I would need to put about 455W if I did it on the tops of the bars without any pacing (Simoni had the benefit of this). That's about 100W more than I can do, but I'm a beer drinking journo, not a pro :-) Simoni also has the benefit of a lower body weight (62kg), so he'd need to crank out about 400W for the climb, or about 6.45W/kg. What I'm sayin' is that I believe it's within the realms of possibility, even at the end of a 140km stage. And yes, I realise the above proof is not particularly scientific. Jeff |
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On May 31, 9:10 pm, Jeff Jones wrote:
What I'm sayin' is that I believe it's within the realms of possibility, even at the end of a 140km stage. And yes, I realise the above proof is not particularly scientific. Who are we going to believe: you, or a gym teacher? |
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in message . com,
RicodJour ') wrote: On May 31, 8:07 am, John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: Fromhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." I'm metric-challenged. What's that in furlongs per fortnight? 1,850 m/h = 3,090 f/f HTH -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; Sending your money to someone just because they've erected ;; a barrier of obscurity and secrets around the tools you ;; need to use your data does not help the economy or spur ;; innovation. - Waffle Iron Slashdot, June 16th, 2002 |
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In article
. com, RicodJour wrote: On May 31, 8:07 am, John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: Fromhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may31news2 "Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) conquered the 10.1-kilometre Monte Zoncolan in 1850 metres per hour according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The speed, 39 minutes over the 1203 metres, 1850 VAM (Velocity Ascended, Metres per hour Vm/h), was faster than that of Ivan Basso on the Maielletta Passo Lanciano in 2006, 1805 VAM. Marco Pantani blasted up the Alpe d'Huez with a 1791 VAM and Danilo Di Luca did the final four kilometres of Tre Cime di Lavaredo with a 1750 VAM." I'm metric-challenged. What's that in furlongs per fortnight? $ units 1850*m/hr furlong/fortnight * 3089.9547 / 0.00032362934 -- Michael Press |
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Jeff Jones wrote:
That's about 100W more than I can do, but I'm a beer drinking journo, In that case, this should help you with your hydration http://thebeerbelly.com/ Jenko |
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On Jun 1, 7:14 am, Jenko wrote:
Jeff Jones wrote: That's about 100W more than I can do, but I'm a beer drinking journo, In that case, this should help you with your hydration http://thebeerbelly.com/ Aha, we've discovered the real use for a hydration pack! Jeff |
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