On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 3:56:02 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Does anyone know of a link that takes you to average climbing speeds in > the big races, over the years, so that you can compare say, Romain Maes > with Gino with Jacques with Eddy with le Blaireau with Big Mig with the > more recent fellows whom I have not troubled to follow? IOW, did climbing > speeds climb when multispeed, on-bike-shifted gearing systems were allowed > into the peloton and, further, as these were refined? >
There are some stats out there. For example, if you wanted to know the "overall" speed of the TdF from 1903 to 2014, check out this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_records_and_statistics#/media/File:Overall_Speed_Tour_de_France.gif Comparing climbing speeds is a little more tricky because each climb is difference, so you need to ask about a specific climb like alp d'huez or ventoux. Then on a specific climbs, there are usually several routes. For example, climbing up Mt Ventoux has 3 different routes: http://www.veloventoux.com/?c=montVentoux On alpe d'huez, it depends on the length of the climb. For the 14.454km climb, Marco Pantani has the fastest time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_d%27Huez#Fastest_ascents But what's really interesting is it appears that the 14 fastest times had some sort of doping allegation or disqualification! Further, there is a comparison of Coppi's 1952 time and it appears that it wasn't broken until the 1980s. So it isn't that easy to compare climbing speeds. Easier for overall times, which are faster over time and probably due to a combination of doping and aero bikes. Good Luck! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
