Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — Power Used in Bleyling. [ARTICLE]

Power Used in Bleyling.

A French selentUt has recently mute some experiment* which show tho amount of force developed by some bicycle riders during a hard race. Two celebrated cyclists hare maintained for two minutes a speed to continue which required the expenditure of energy representing two-thirds of one horse power. For six seconds they were able to exert the astonishing force of one and one-fourth horse power. This Is equivalent to raising a weight of 188 pounds one yard high, and In one second. This Is a conservative estimate owing to the Insufficiency of‘the co-efficients of power used in making the calculations. One oC the discoveries made during the calculation of the force exerted by bicyclists is that at high speed the work of a bicyclist In covering a specified distance Is as great as that of a man running the same distance. At a moderate speed a runner undergoes three times the labor of a bicyclist, but the higher the speed the nearer are the exertions equalised.