Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
That's fine and dandy, but it still means a 100kg cyclist would have to spin at 220 RPM to reach 200 W, which barely touches the "hundreds of watts" stated by the OP.
No, it increases faster than a linear function. Based on the published data points at 50, 70, 90 and 110 rpm, it increases roughly as a cubic function. So it will reach 2W/kg at about 135 rpm.
Otto