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More serious question--is Pike's peak high enough for altitude sickness to affect the participants?
 
Flywheel said:
More serious question--is Pike's peak high enough for altitude sickness to affect the participants?
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Yes. Drivers complain about the last 30% of the run and running out of breath. But even crews feel the effects. I wonder if any drivers take EPO for this race.
 
CafeRay said:
Yes. Drivers complain about the last 30% of the run and running out of breath. But even crews feel the effects. I wonder if any drivers take EPO for this race.
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Viagra works well for altitude sickness (not kidding). Personally, if I was planning on doing this, I would try to spend a week at near the highest altitude to get use to it, then when you drop down to start the race, you will have more ox than you are used to.

If the lack of oxygen affected the drivers too much, I would expect that they would bring some with them (either a supplemental o2 bottle or a slightly enriched bottle of air (ie. ~28% o2))
 
GreyGhost said:
Viagra works well for altitude sickness (not kidding). Personally, if I was planning on doing this, I would try to spend a week at near the highest altitude to get use to it, then when you drop down to start the race, you will have more ox than you are used to.

If the lack of oxygen affected the drivers too much, I would expect that they would bring some with them (either a supplemental o2 bottle or a slightly enriched bottle of air (ie. ~28% o2))
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It takes months of exercise at high altitudes to see an effect, and it's typically modest, or one shot of EPO. Viagra can work, but... did you just complete Pike's Peak, or you just glad to see me?
 
It just does doesn't have the same romance, I'm still chuffed because somebody figgered out how the get gasoline lit in a tube and go whirly round all those years ago. Vroom.
 
I agree with you but I'm still impressed to see something like this. I always pictured electric/hybrid bikes to be gaudy and all futuristic etc. This has appeal which is more than I can say for the direction some new bikes are going.
 
dricked said:
Talking about bench racers...:lmao:
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It is not called a timing map, it is called a fuel map, they don't change timing, they change fueling.


k193 said:
As much as I hate to use NASCAR as an example for talking about racing, you can see an example of what I'm trying to explain in the races they hold with restriction plates in the intake - they run a much higher compression ratio than normal to try to compensate as much as possible for the choked off air supply. You can apply the same approach when building a naturally aspirated engine for hill climbs.

High compression, and start the race with a retarded timing map slightly to avoid detonation, increasing the timing as you climb and the available air (and therefore fuel we can inject to be burned) decrease.

It's definitely a disadvantage, but they're not losing 40hp (as that calculator website would suggest) from start to finish.

The arrogant tone of my posts makes you wish I was wrong, but I'm not.
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altitude sickness starts about 8,000ft and pikes peak is about 14,000 so you are certainly in the zone, but like sea sickness, it doesn't affect everyone. Lots of Colorado ski resorts operate in the 10-14,000 ft zone and thousands of vacationers do ok. I find I get winded skiing at that height but if I'm there for a couple weeks its ok.
 
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jokes:D
 
CafeRay said:
Yes. Drivers complain about the last 30% of the run and running out of breath. But even crews feel the effects. I wonder if any drivers take EPO for this race.
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All of them do, you know it's a dirty sport ... .LOL
 
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