Dave Gorman and ‘Something for the Weekend’ host Tim Lovejoy raced on Wattbikes in the BBC studio to highlight Dave Gorman’s cycling stand up tour of the UK. The Wattbikes were used for a 200m race, which, Dave Gorman won (although Ella Williamson reported that Tim Lovejoy had won). The report can be seen until Sunday 5th April on the BBC iPlayer and takes place 1 hr, 13 mins into the show.

Once interesting thing to note from the results is that although Tim produced the higher average power he did not actually have a higher average speed than Dave. The reason for this is the faster you travel the higher the amount of power required is to increase your speed, so Tim’s riding at a higher power output for a short period of time would not have produced a fast enough speed to pull away from the more consistent Dave Gorman. The same would be true on the road or track, the most efficient way to get from A to B is maintaining the highest continuous speed/power output, not sprint then rest, sprint then rest.