What's your top speed?

How much do you weigh? Are you slightly built or do you look like the side of a shed?

200W isn't much for me (easy cruising speed, say 25kph on the tops in low wind) and shouldn't be an issue for most people that have done any amount of cycling and aren't at the 50kg end of the chicken leg scale.

5'7" and just over 80Kg. I've got short thick legs that are pretty powerful (rugby forward, albeit a tiny one). So the power itself does'nt sound like it would be an issue from what you say. Just need to train the cadence and stamina. I wont be running the local marathon this year, so that should help my prep (its 2 weeks before the ride). I'm going to really focus on this.

I realise its not exactly the TDF, its just that all the local Norwegians I know, think I'm just a stupid Englishman with a stupid bike (well to fair the bit about me might be true). I'm dying to put in a decent time, no one insults my bike. WA-bunch of-Cs :)

(ED: Smilie added to avoid insulting the entire country I live in. I'll leave that untill pissed after)