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> Everyone can go fast enough to carry too much speed into a turn and have a bad day. But if you want to beat someone going downhill you need to get to the tur
by discreteevent 6y ago
> Everyone can go fast enough to carry too much speed into a turn and have a bad day.
But if you want to beat someone going downhill you need to get to the turn as fast as possible and then brake. On a steep enough hill aerodynamics are the only thing that determine how fast you go on the straight - you don't even pedal because your legs can't keep up.
- jhrmnn 6y agoWhat matters on curvy descents is how much speed you can bring out of the turn. And that mostly depends on how efficient lines you can pick.
- tokai 6y agoThey don't do the supertuck through hard corners of course. That would be absolute madness. Here is a video of Frome descending.[0] There are some hard corners by 6km. He's back up in the saddle and choosing lines through them. [0] https://youtu.be/zojjIghKQoM?t=143 https://youtu.be/zojjIghKQoM?t=143
- brudgers 6y agoAt 3:04 in the video Froome takes a corner in his tuck.
- tokai 6y agoYeah, a left kink. Not a hard corner.
- jimlikeslimes 6y agoFrome is a pretty average descender though. I've heard him talk about struggling on descents, especially in his early career or bad weather.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoThat depends on the gearing. I remember pedaling madly up to 80kph in 12th gear, and after reaching that sliding into that Pantani thing, to coast out as long as possible. Which wasn't that long where i rode, 2 minutes max, maybe.