Originally Posted by colnago62

Not really. Chris Hoy was one of the first of the big gear sprinters. He was known for taking people long. He had both high peak , but was also able to hold fairly high wattage for a long time. Pervis was kind of that way too. He did like a 56 second kilo, which is all about holding wattage vs merely hitting a high peak. Don’t you think Kittel was like that too? If you gave him a straight shot to the finish line, he was hard to beat.