Man v. Machine(Man) 100m race

have u been doing all of that V=U+AT stuff?

What gearing did you use in the end?

excellent story.
cavendish vs bolt FTW. bring it on.

Hoy vs. Bolt you mean.
Cav rides 200k before sprinting. Bolt's races only last, what, 20s?

MacLean or Staff would be my choice to go up against Bolt, they can both do standing start 250m in <18s. Hoy's strength lies more at the top end.

Interpolating between trackpoints, I did the first 100m in about 13.3s on Thursday night on 93" and setting off fairly steadily, so it's a pretty poor show to not beat even sub-11s runners if you gear for it and give it plenty.

Next Thursday I'm using 72", and it's a race of no importance so I'll give it plenty off the line and see what I can do.

I just picked the first track sprinter in mind. I'm not expecting something like this to go ahead, but yeah, there are certainly faster guys off the line.

Hoy could whip Bolt over 100m too, but as cyclist's we might as well rub it in by putting up our best man.

I could whip Bolt and I'm slow off the mark. ;)

can someone video this. sounds awesome.
a bit like top gear's veyron vs eurofighter :P

....................could be an excellent showdown!

I'd never even heard of that. Just looked it up, and giggled like an excitable schoolchild. Immense.

Hmmm, not as easy as you think it's going to be. Killed two birds with one stone by doing my intervals from a standing start instead of the usual rolling start. Best 10 second effort was 73m on 48/16, best 19 second effort was 177m on 48/15. In my defence, it was from a track stand start on my road bike, and I can surely do better on my track bike, although it wouldn't look good if I ploughed through a load of learner roller bladers at 30mph on a bike with no brakes.

I could whip Bolt and I'm slow off the mark. ;)

Powertap graphs or it's empty bragging.

Although I was being sarcastic.. I'm actually keen to have a go now.
I'll find a safe place for standing start sprints and see if it's possible to beat the Bolt.