Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply

Re:Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply by YawningAngel on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:50PM (#24888799)

Pro cyclists can sustain 300W for an hour or more, and even trained amateurs can break 200W pretty happily, so 60W sounds like a lot is being left on the table, yes.

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Re:Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply by hilb3r7 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:16PM (#24889529)

The hour record is held by Bradley Wiggins, and it's estimated he averaged 440 watts.

For comparison, I'm reasonably trained, and could maybe hold that for 4 minutes. I'm also considerably heavier!

I would guess that a random average adult male who doesn't neglect general fitness, but doesn't necessarily cycle, could put out 160w-220w for an hour if they were forced to.

60W is insanely easy tho, pretty much anyone without some sort of extreme physical limitation would be able to do that.

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Re:Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply by Eric_WVGG on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:15PM (#24889939)

for some real fun, watch this video of an Olympic cyclist generating 700 watts to toast a single slice of bread

be sure to note the size of his thighs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQnTypHbYk

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Re:Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply by aghillo on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:14PM (#24889034)

Indeed. Thomas De Gentd averaged 298w for 6hr on stage 17 of the Giro d’italia a few days ago according to his strava feed (measured off his SRM powermeter).

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Re:Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply by angrysaki on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:27PM (#24889137)

Or a bigger guy (Ganna), https://www.strava.com/activities/4229195275

333w for 6.5h, 460w for the first climb (35 minutes).

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