From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 21:27:07 2025
Riding a 54 or 55 big ring and an 11 tooth small cog and riding at 40 mph in a fairly small tailwind is pretty shocking. And CLIMBING in a 54/15 even more so. The Aero improvements on carbon fiber bikes are so small as to be impossible to detect unless
you are riding at 30 mph.
No one is a water carrier in the older sense of the words. Now everyone is some national olympic or world champion capable of winning in their categories any time. And they are relegated the chores of carrying water and gel to the super champions like
Pogachar, Vingegarr. or Roglic who is a fantastic rider but looks slow only in comparison.