Archive for May, 2007

Torque Analysis, Rotor Rings, rear-set cleats and an SRM

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Finally spent some time tonight mucking around with my bike, my rings, my cleats etc.
 
I have been riding with the speedplay cleat adaptor for about two weeks in the most rear-set position (allowing a setback 25mm behind where I was before under the ball of the foot).
 
I have also been toying with the Rotor rings as [...]

SaltAir 5-24

Friday, May 25th, 2007

well, it was not my day in many ways…
 
1) the backwards cleat position has not helped my foot pain, but has dropped off some of the power.
 
a month ago I ripped a solid 15:35 on training wheels @ ~290w.
 
today I barely managed a 265w ave for the first run (and a measely 240w for the [...]

Mula de prueba

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

 
 
Kyle asked about something that I have been running for a few months…
 
hope this helps you Kyle…
 
-g

Any takers?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Which of these is faster?  Which has a lower CdA?  Which has wider elbows?
 

 
no field test data yet, perhaps saturday.  I have my suspicions based on the work of some friends…
 
back profiles:
 

 
we shall see if the intuitive answer is the correct one.
 
Just goes to show, there are always gains to be had, even [...]

Another Saltair Windspeed Graph…

Friday, May 11th, 2007

I ran like crap last night as my stomach disapproved of the effort.
 
But thought the 3 people reading this might want to see this (vs. the last one two weeks ago).
 

 
Clearly there is a trend developing in start times and windspeed.
 
More to follow as I hope to assemble a full database of data from [...]