Hey Trash,
Nice posts. You seem to be a bit of a Mark VanAk expert. Care to post any of your recent results so we know where you are coming from?
Thanks, DCR
Hey Trash,
Nice posts. You seem to be a bit of a Mark VanAk expert. Care to post any of your recent results so we know where you are coming from?
Thanks, DCR
No worries, Don. I believe the man’s handle says it all! 
Livin’ in Austin and Lovin’ it,
Robert
Sorry, I didn’t know I had to be fast in order to comment on arrogance.
Arrogance is actually a very overused word. Many people used to call Floyd Landis cocky and arrogant, and I as someone who has raced against Floyd in quite a few professional mountain bike races would only call him exhuberant and very enthusiastic but never arrogant. With age Floyd has actually become more mellow and even nicer.
Mark is also a very exhuberant athlete with a lot of enthusiasm and whenever I have met him has never struck me as arrogant either. He has proven more than once that he is more than just a great swimmer.
All the best,
Herbert
Litespeed/QR
If either the computrainer or the powertap is ‘miscalibrated’ or has some inherent error, the two should read the same on the test that you performed. That’s a pretty big IF though as both have been known to happen.
TJ’s explanation is for the ERGO mode only. It’s also the ‘stand alone’ mode using a constant wattage, not a variable wattage that occurs on a computrainer flat course and is probably based on weight, speed, and an assumed drag coefficient (as well as any road slope, tire friction, etc). At a constant wattage, it’s easy to increase the speed just by chaning to a bigger gear at the same cadence…or riding in the same gear at a higher cadence.
So, the difference is likely somewhere between the two. The computrainer probably ‘feels’ harder than reality because the algorithm used has to incorporate some type of drag coefficient that may be higher than reality or because your bike is completely fixed into place. Computrainers, while a great training tool, have been known for being somewhat inaccurate (a few percentage points). I think that they’re still a very valid and good training tool, but it’s all in a relative sense.
Nice site Brandon. Good story about you visiting Dan’s compound.
FYI. I’ve got an invite from Scott Warren to come down and check out the Javelin shop/company down here. Are you riding that Barolo frame ,now?
Even though anonymous posters have a place in forums like this, their intervention is limited. One of those limits is when criticizing a particular person, and/or trying to give lessons in class.
I guess from TX it’d be ‘up there’?
I’m on the Arcole, and I imagine that I’ll stay on that one for awhile. It fits like a glove and I’ve been more than happy with it. I’ve also got a Sebino road bike for my foray into road racing and draft legal. For a relatively ‘low end’ road bike, I think that there are 5 or 6 above it, it is a great riding bike. Maybe if I get a little exposure, I can twist his arm for a Brunello.
I believe married strapped down Age Groupers should be privileged to interact with, read from, read posts from such great endurance athletes who post here. I know of few sports where there is that much internet interaction between participants and elite and professional class athletes, as there is here, or for that matter over on Gordo’s forum.
In fact, I can think of none. We should shriek when we read attacks like this because it might wrongly cause them to retreat from internet postings.
not to mention one detail…Mark wasn’t arrogant at all…he wasn’t the one posting to talk about his 1h on the CT…
and mr austinLBSowner wasn’t arrogant either as he wasn’t talking about himself…
so what was the deal about arrogance?