Well I did a USCF license search and didn’t find any results with that name. Maybe we will all know her in 5 years but not much of a blip on the screen right now. Juniors are tough, I have seen a few with so much potential, then they find cars or girls and that is the way it was for their cycling days. G
Frank,
Why spend time stoking the fires of those who already harbor those heated feelings about you with posts like this?
Work on getting the price of your cranks down to a point where more people can buy them. The resistance may abate (a little).
I sold $10,000+ treadmills for awhile. I understand the value of a good product and the price they demand. I’m the last guy to turn my back on something just because it costs a lot. But $1,000 for a crankset is just too big a hurdle.
To tell you the truth I’m waiting for someone with a little inventiveness to slyly get around your patents and make the same thing for less. At your prices I have no other hope.
And you need to do a little more fact finding that just accepting what you’re told before posting. I don’t no why people lie about all kinds of things…but they do. All the time.
Tell you what, give me a free pair of Powercranks and I promise to beat Lance in a Tour stage this year. I’m a 30 year old moving to southern CA in a few months. You send the cranks and I’ll start riding them, got an old (crankless) Giant frame in the garage- I’ll slap them on as soon as I get them. The only thing stopping me (and your right to brag about me) is that schwag. Send it on down. I’ll be the FrankDay solo Tour de France Team. I’ll bandit it and put “Kicking Lance’s Ass For Frank” on the back of the jersey.
Geez, more fact checking it is! Oops. Someone just sent me a PM indicating another company has been taken in by these lies and posting similar numbers on their web site.
Take it for what it is worth. I thought the report was worth a little “wow” and would be interesting to many here. One thing for sure, lots of people here have trouble believing anything beyond their own experience.
Frank
“To tell you the truth I’m waiting for someone with a little inventiveness to slyly get around your patents and make the same thing for less. At your prices I have no other hope”
It does exist : it is called the smartcranks, and you can choose to pedal powercranks style or block the system and use them as regular cranks. It is a swiss company making them. But they still cost about the same as the PCs.
My brother has one pair on a stationary bike in his physiotherapy practice. They have been around for a few years, but they only start to market them a bit more. As for myself, I chose the PCs.
Speaking of cost, I see the new Campy Record Carbon Crankset goes for about $700.00! New Dura Ace about $400.00! Then again, you can get a new 105 series for about $100.00. Big price spread there…for most of us, it would be hard to successfully argue that there is that much difference in performance per dollar cost between these cranksets. FWIW…
Do they have a graph /charts for , speed mph / weight rider & bike = watts ?
Ball park stuff , I know tires , bearings , drag , co /e friction -surface ,all vary.
try analyticcycling.com
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“CompuTrainer satisfies the needs of young and old alike – the two extremes (as well as in between). Twelve year old Coryn Rivera of Tustin, California won the 2004 Junior National Road Championship in her first year of racing (and placed 2nd in the Jr. Track Nationals). Her father Wally got her a CompuTrainer at the beginning of the year which she has trained on religiously – to the point that this 90 lb junior racer can now average 276 watts for 10 minutes and sprint in 500 watt bursts. One of the secrets to her success is constant performance monitoring in watts. Her wattage targets for 2005 have been set to virtually insure her continued success.” http://www.racermateinc.com/
This was PM’d to me by our brother who has taken a vow of silence, kind of. It’s so many standard deviations from the norm that makes it such a freakish achievement, and so difficult to believe. Just the same, I hope this little prodigy doesn’t have her will to live sucked dry by the adults of the cycling world who will undoubtedly have big expectations for her.
Just the same, I hope this little prodigy doesn’t have her will to live sucked dry by the adults of the cycling world who will undoubtedly have big expectations for her.
A couple of thoughts. Winning helps motivate people. She should have little trouble doing that. People tend to enjoy things they are good at. Further, it is not like her father has to push her to get to the next level, she is already there. In fact, one could argue she is at the last level, at least for her age. So, it will only be, hopefully, a matter of supporting her interest as long as it is present.
There was a local boy who was about a year younger than my son. He received a lot of press when he was between 8 & 11 years old for breaking many state running records from 5K to MARATHON. My running friends and I would read about him and speculate at what age he would burn out. I finally met him and his dad while awaiting the award ceremony at an 8K that I ran with my son when “the prodigy” was about 11 years old. My son had placed 2nd to the prodigy in the 12 & under group (by a large margin). The dad couldn’t stop talking about how much his son loved running. How he accompanied him on his bike on his 20 to 30 mile long runs. How he just couldn’t get enough and how disappointed the kid was that he came up a few seconds short of breaking 30 minutes that day. The kid didn’t have much to say. He just sat there listening.
I never saw that kid’s name in the regional running press after that year. Now, I don’t know what became of him. He would probably be a junior in high school now. He isn’t tearing up the high school cross country scene, but the times he was running at 11 years old would have been competitive with all but the very best high school runners. I just shudder when I think of that 10 year old boy doing 30 mile long runs with his dad pacing him on a bicycle, and when I think of a 12 year old girl grinding away on a computrainer with her dad carefully monitoring her wattage.