Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Question: Does that Coggins study date back to the era of EPO? If so, nearly all the elite bike racers had a huge edge in sustained power and recovery not available to us mortals. That would explain the curve going vertical.
Yeh probably. But the percentiles graphed against W/kg are self-reported from Cycling Analytics site subscribers and are unrelated to the (in)famous graph, other than being overlaid on it. I probably should have just left the chart off and showed just my own chart with "data reported by Cycling Analytics" and avoided all the byplay about the Coggan chart, but I wanted to show at least somewhat attribute the source.