| Re: Drag racing on bicycles.
street sprints?
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ie
ride fast, take chances.
"Bill Baka" <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Tmzvh.39780$Gr2.35457@newssvr21.news.prodigy. net...
> 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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