| Drag racing on bicycles.
This one is my pet. Since all the car freaks like to do drag races, both
at stop lights and at a track, why not have the same event for bicycle
riders. A quarter mile is a good distance for a healthy rider to cover
at 110% effort and the finishing speed should be about 40 MPH for a
really fit rider. Given an average of 30 MPH that would give 30 seconds
of pure leg busting effort and a near heart attack at the end.
I know that a rider set a record by riding at 35 MPH for one full hour
in a velodrome so it can be done, although that record may have been on
a 'bent.
New sport anyone?
Bill Baka
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