On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:07 AM, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:23:23PM +1200, David Mann wrote: >> >> I drafted for the first time just the other day, but I was only drafting >> behind another couple of road cyclists. It's amazing how much energy you >> save ... > > According to the Versus Tour-de-France commentators (who have > ridden in the tour, so presumably know something about it) > you use something like 30% less energy when you are drafting.
I suspect it's even more than that, depending on what you're drafting. When I was training for the DC one day, I expected to miss my afternoon class, when one of my classmates rode by on her moped. I was able to draft her at something like 25 MPH when my normal cruising speed was much closer to 15. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
