Quote from aikigreg on May 28th, 2014, 11:07pm:Not a darn thing I don't have to!
Greg!!! You bringing that speed demon on a St Pete N ride when visiting the area in a couple of weeks?
When I can get 2-3 of the fast guys in the area to rotate behind me we'll average 27-28. That's a fair amount of turns but not too many stops (usually less than 15 stops) but launches are hard until they pop their chutes. Sometimes it's faster when I'm by myself and don't have to slow down for them. Only two sprint zones and as long as I pull them pretty hard we keep the sprints down to the low 30's.
I usually warm up for the ride by doing the 19+ mile ride down there rolling about 26-28 most of the time. Even with all of the stops and slowing for traffic, etc. I made it down there this morning in 50 minutes flat (23.1mph avg - faster than you can get there by car in normal traffic) so was cranking it fairly hard.
And you need to ride down to Ft Desoto with me and do some moderate intervals in the wind. Sit it on 300 watts for some 3 mile pulls and have you hang on like you used to do! :^) A few of us do that on Tuesday mornings.