Does this power make sense

Watoni said:

Just a quick ride with 30 minutes around threshold (7% climb). I tried to upload the file from cyclingpeaks but failed.

climb of 7km at 7% -- time of 29:58; average power 284?!

Depends, do you and your bike together(with bottles, patch kit...) weigh roughly 94kg(207 pounds) or was the road particularly rough or anything else unusual? Was the grade and your AP steady, how accurate is 7%? Did you coast at all(small descents on the climb) and do you have your CPU set to not record zeros? But no, on the surface of it unless you're in that weight range or you were riding your mountain bike knobbies up that hill 284 watts seems a bit high for 14km/hour(~3.9 m/s). Did you zero your PT torque and have you stomp tested it? midweekclub.capowerFAQ.htmOpen ↗

-Dave

Piece of cake. For me anyways.

daveryanwyoming said:

Depends, do you and your bike together(with bottles, patch kit...) weigh roughly 94kg(207 pounds) or was the road particularly rough or anything else unusual? Was the grade and your AP steady, how accurate is 7%? Did you coast at all(small descents on the climb) and do you have your CPU set to not record zeros? But no, on the surface of it unless you're in that weight range or you were riding your mountain bike knobbies up that hill 284 watts seems a bit high for 14km/hour(~3.9 m/s). Did you zero your PT torque and have you stomp tested it? midweekclub.capowerFAQ.htmOpen ↗

-Dave

Yes, the torque was zeroed.

It should make sense now that you give the weight figure.

I am roughly 20 pounds over my ideal weight at present (182 pounds dressed for action); the bike is about 18 pounds with computer and heavier PT wheel; saddle bag with multi tool, three tubes and tire levers is about 2.5; two full 750 ml waterbottles, keys, cellphone & windbreaker in the jersey pockets, so 207 pounds is about right.

I guess I can look forward to much better times if I get down to about 155-160 pounds!

Spunout said:

Piece of cake. For me anyways.

Piece of cake? Don't tempt me, I am on a diet ... 🙄