LA's legs - Page 7 - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

07-11-2004, 05:34 AM

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>> It actually looks small for a road bike. I wonder how fast he spins?
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> I've read that Lance's cadence is 120 or so.

Work it out! :-) This is from a sidebar to an article about Lance:

TOUR BY THE NUMBERS
3395 - Total length, in kilometres, of the 2004 course
15 million - Number of fans expected to line the course
2 billion - Number of viewers worldwide 2,877,705 - Total prize money in
euros ($A5 million)
400,000 - Prize money, in euros, for the winner ($A690,000)
109,920 - Estimated calories Lance Armstrong will burn
14.2 - Kilograms of body fat equivalent to that many calories
540,000 - Estimated number of pedal strokes Armstrong will make over the
course of the Tour
459,000 - Estimated number of pedal strokes slow grinder Jan Ullrich will
make

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