As someone that did long endurance bike races for many years, I would have to agree with the title alone. It never felt natural to be peddling a contraption for

As someone that did long endurance bike races for many years, I would have to agree with the title alone. It never felt natural to be peddling a contraption for any length of time. I think if you got down to it, it’s really competitors striving to be as fast as possible on something that was invented, but not necessarily something that was invented to be the best or most efficient. At the lowest level, it’s really someone getting on a thing and seeing how much they can make the best of it. Getting on a bike and pedaling a few blocks and getting there faster than walking, absolutely. Bikes have a lot of rolling resistance, so human effort hits a calorie intake threshold where now a fuel source need to be considered with longer distances vs. time.