backdoor wrote:Alex Simmons/RST wrote:Anquetil, Merckx and Hinault had significantly different pedalling styles. All managed to do OK. Amazing. or not
The pedalling of Merckx and Hinault may have looked different but in reality they were both using the same basic technique in which greatest torque could only be applied around 3 o'c and both riders' legs were effectively idling around TDC.
Yet Merckx is the greatest rider of all time and Hinault is the greatest time trialist ever. Just goes to show how inconsequential your observations are.