Originally Posted by
MinnMan
An inspiring story. I wish him luck and success.
But of course, the journalist is just using words in their vocabulary, not really knowing how to describe a strong track cyclist.
So, FWIW, it all depends on your reference point. One could argue that the astronaut is traveling about 5 miles/second when he is pedaling at the end of this video.
Well, can't really record that on Strava, so it didn't happen.
Ref point is on roads attached to earth and returning to the same point (wind) and no other energy used - and record-able (right or wrong due to sampling rates) by Strava.
So like a 200m track TT, but this is road.
A sprint - after drafting others might be the fastest, but they definitely used others to do that.
A sprint just riding off the front counts.
My kid got a Strava KOM here that will be difficult to repeat.
Anyway, I would DQ this one too, but along the same lines of your post. I think it entertaining - to me. Old family vacation video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-s...ature=youtu.be