Ief Verbrugghe
Ief Verbrugghe (born 25 July 1975 in Tienen) is a Belgian former professional cyclist. He rode his entire career on the Lotto–Domo team, and rode in four editions of the Giro d'Italia. He did not achieve any professional wins.[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 July 1975 Tienen, Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2000 | Lotto–Adecco (stagiaire) |
| Professional team | |
| 2001–2004 | Lotto–Adecco |
He is the younger brother of former cyclist Rik Verbrugghe.
Major results
- 1999
- 3rd Cholet-Pays de Loire
gollark: Wikipedia says that spider silk has a diameter of "2.5–4 μm", which I approximated to 3μm for convenience, so a strand has a 1.5μm radius. That means that its cross-sectional area (if we assume this long thing of spider silk is a cylinder) is (1.5e-6)², or ~7e-12. Wikipedia also says its density is about 1.3g/cm³, which is 1300kg/m³, and that the observable universe has a diameter of 93 billion light-years (8.8e26 meters). So multiply the length of the strand (the observable universe's diameter) by the density of spider silk by the cross-sectional area of the strand and you get 8e18 kg, while the atmosphere's mass is about 5e18 kg, so close enough really.
gollark: Okay, so by mass it actually seems roughly correct.
gollark: So, spider silk comes in *very* thin strands and is somewhat denser than water, interesting.
gollark: You do that, I'll try and find data on spider silk density.
gollark: Actually, this factoid does seem kind of dubious even if it's meant to say "mass"... hmm.
References
- "Ief Verbrugghe". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
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