Bikes 🚲

I asked Chatgpt to compare top cyclists and their Performances and wanted to see the impact of weight on these steep hills.

Ullrich, one of my chilhood Idols, was always a Little Heavy going into tour de france - which hurts brutally in the Mountains - but his absolute power was unmatched.

If he had 5kg less (10kg prob not possible with same power), he’d beat Pantani record on his iconic alpe d’huez climb (37:35 mins, with 57! Kg only, going 470 Watt, 8+ Watt/kg !!) by more than 1 Minute (another 5kg less and he’d be another 2:37 mins faster..).

Tldr: Pogacar & Vingegaard are optimized for the Tour, The Mountains and can push absurd 6.5 Watt/kg but Armstrong and Ullrich were raw power beasts from another world.

ChatGPT Performance comparison calls this the EPO era Giants vs the modern grand Tour champions 😄

Lance climbed Alpe dHuez 1:30m faster then JV and TP.. 😬