The Wattbikes were very popular all weekend at BikeRadar Live with hundreds of people getting peak power and 200m scores. The most famous of the riders were Graeme Obree and Brian Lopes. Both legends in their own area of the sport, Graeme a two time pursuit world champion and former holder of the world one hour record was not really suited to the type of racing that we were doing – infact he posted 885Watts for the Peak Power and 12.09s for the two hundred metres, which would have left him a ways off the leaders – make it an hour though and he would be dangerous! Brian in comparison was much more suited to the peak power and 200m. As a four times World Champion, in 4x, 8x and Dual he understands getting a quick start and certainly has some impressive leg speed. In his warm up he produced a peak cadence of 188r/m and a peak power of 1630W on setting 1. Once we moved the resitance to level 6 and had the 200m race he was even more impressive. He recorded a peak power of 1689W and a time of 9.51s for the 200m very impressiev stuff and the fastest 200m of the day – the second fastest coming in the same race with a 9.53s.
A good weekend all round with much interest in the Wattbikes. The DHL trailer will now be moving around the country visiting DHL centres – we will keep you posted.
Steve Peat today raced on the Wattbike on the Wattbike DHL stand at BikeRadar Live. By the time he raced it was late on in the day and he had already raced in the downhill, but still produced a 9.78z 200m and a peak power score of 1708Watts. Impressive stuff and he is a nice guy, very friendly and willing to sign autographs. When on the Wattbike he immediately understood the value of the Polar View for training and monitoring efficiency. We will try and get him back onto the Wattbikes tomorrow.
The stand was busy all day and we were able to catch up with a few of our friends from other exhibitors including Animal, SIS and Perfect Motion. Ed Waterston from Scott (see A Conference in Adelaide, a Wind Tunnel and James Cracknell) was also there, we hope to catch up with them tomorrow if there is any free time!
We thing that about 500 people tried the Wattbikes and the feedback has been great. Thanks to Eddie for his hard work today.
We spent the morning hammering out the details of the Wattbike area at Bikeradar live, and we are getting a bit excited. The event will have a load of exciting races, including a flying lap of the race track that will soon be used for the F1 Grand Prix, a downhill mountain bike race, a sportif and of course the Wattbike event. The Wattbike area will be supported by DHL who have become fans of the Wattbike through their DHL Sprint days where they use the Wattbikes as part of their testing and coaching of young athletes.
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