On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Robert D. Dayton,Jr. <
rdayton@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Does this count as an explanation?
>
> By 1965 the length of the pavé sections had fallen to only 22
> kilometres.[11] This led Peter Post to win the 1964 race averaging a
> record
> speed of 45.120 kilometers per hour. This forced Paris-Roubaix race
> director
> Jacques Goddet to dispatch Albert Bouvet to find more sections of
> cobblestones for the 1968 edition.
Maybe, if it is significantly less than any year since. Anyone have that information for years since '64. And is there any direct or indirect information on how much the average speed drops on pave sections? Is there a direct correlation between average speed and pave length? Should be easy to figure out. If the information is out there, and someone can point me t o it, I'd be happy to crunch the numbers.
John (ex-number cruncher) Wood
Red Lodge, Montana, USA