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Originally Posted by LJohnny
pfff, so much time had passed, where are the bikes he used? I think this is pretty much a canned approach to an issue that, yes, may have happened, very, very difficult to prove this far out from the date it happended...
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he has the bike from 2010 Roubaix hanging in his garage.
Not sure what Gaimon knows. He can do like 480 watts for 10 minutes (according to this site:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/...x-evo-gallery/ ) I think Cancellara could do close to that for almost an hour. 460 normalized power for an hour and 12 minutes, according to this:
http://www.stickybottle.com/wp-conte...16/08/Can1.png
So, for sure Cancellara's max power for an attack is beyond what Gaimon could imagine. "his accelerations don't look natural at all" Indeed. Only a handful of people could keep up with him when he put those attacks in. If we come to the conclusion that he was cheating based on the dominance of his attacks, how can you not also pass judgement on Boonen in 2011?
I think Gaimon has some good insights about the professional peloton, but this isn't any better than a bunch of guys behind keyboards watching grainy youtube videos and deciding he is guilty based on a hunch.
If he were regularly at the sharp end of the cobbled classics, I'd put more stock in his thoughts on this.