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Old 09-19-18, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by memebag
This Woman Just Biked at 184 MPH to Smash the Bicycle Speed Record

"'So she’s no spring chicken at 45, but she’s a superb bike handler and at the peak of her strength after coming back after taking 23 years off and having three kids,' Howard said."
I talked with Howard on several occasions about this event. She is over 1000 watts for the one mile qualifying run but not sure if that was average power or peak power but not 75 watts. She did a lot of strength work at the gym. Frictional forces due to rolling resistance at 182 mph on the salt flat are significant and the draft in the fairing changes and the power surges in her legs. I talked with her after her record last year and she was telling me how difficult it is to stay in the sweet spot of the draft. She is on my wife’s racing team. We were very happy for her with the result and nothing bad happened.
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