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Someone producing 400W for an hour is not a fit man, it's a star endurance athlete. It's the kind of power top performer in tour de France can provide.
by brohee 9y ago
Someone producing 400W for an hour is not a fit man, it's a star endurance athlete. It's the kind of power top performer in tour de France can provide.
- ptaipale 9y agoIndeed. At a local nuclear power station there's a visitor center where one can experiment how to generate electricity with an exercise bike. With moderate power you can power a tablet computer or an incandescent light bulb, but the water kettle comes on only with actual athletes, and even then, the small light bulb goes off, and even a professional cyclist can't sustain that power for longer than a brief moment. It's just pointless to generate electricity by human power. It's not pointless to ride a bike.
- diziet 9y agoYes, as a benchmark an 80kg male rider that's an athlete but not a pro (say cat1 or cat2) can produce maybe 1200-1300 watts for 10 seconds, and maybe 400 watts or so for 5 minutes.
- pipio21 9y agoNot to mention that a Tour de France Athlete is consumed during the Tour. You need to accumulate reserves for at least three months in order to last 23 days of effort.
- jackmott 9y agothey could do 400 watts for one hour a day indefinitely though.
- thrownblown 9y agoBradley Wiggins in the most recent hour record attempt averaged 440 for an hour. 440 watts for a world hour record. 350 watts for one hour, once a day, would be challenging to maintain for one week.
- workerIbe 9y agoOn a good day my house uses 8kwh, I suppose I'd qualify as an endurance athelete after pedaling 20hrs a day for a bit.
- dmurdoch 9y agoIt takes an Olympic Cyclist mashing until he has to lie down just to make a piece of toast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ