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Yet cycling events are frequently won out of the saddle on the slopes or out of the saddle in the sprint. And yes, sometimes they’re won by someone time triali
by stouset 3y ago
Yet cycling events are frequently won out of the saddle on the slopes or out of the saddle in the sprint.
And yes, sometimes they’re won by someone time trialing away from the pack while in the saddle. But even then, most of the time it’s a breakaway pack which fights for the podium in an all-out sprint.
- hinkley 3y agoThe breakaway pack also typically sprints away from the peloton. Because drafting is 30% easier than riding at the front. If you don’t catch a wheel as it goes past, you’re dropped. I’m looking around at all this ”data that we have about pedal strokes” and nobody mentions sprinters or climbing specialists. If they don’t know it’s important they won’t test for it. Sounds like “science” being done by domain neophytes and called objective. What is interesting though is that one claimed that advanced amateurs have higher peak stroke torque than pros. Pros are spreading more power out over a larger arc of the circle. Now that could still be 130° of the stroke for all I know but that still sounds like circularizing to me. I also haven’t found anyone yet who says LeMond was wrong about driving through the bottom of the stroke, which is how I rode.