Recent content by deej1

It's not simply big v wee, but smaller people generally have lower CDAs. Taller and/or heavier riders typically have larger frontal areas - longer legs, wider shoulders etc. It's not just frontal areas, the length and shape of an object effects things a bit too. I expect that smaller riders...

Kind of useful information in the absence of road CDA's. Big guy gets .17 on track supports idea that wee guy Vingegaard achieving .20 on the road isn't too crazy..

If it was from that, he's probably not at his best at the end of the tour on a tt bike

Pretty sure it was mentioned in the commentary and I think sub .2 is achievable for small pros who work on their tt. perhaps only in the wind tunnel though (?)

I think there was a tailwind that picked up for later riders.

6w/kg tt sounds realistic relative to his climbing power if he worked on his TT?

Expect Pinot's 60 minute's a bit lower than he's capable of given his 20 minute. Probably didn't do a properly full gas hour

That's his Strava weight (you can see it using Sauce for Strava).

Semantics I guess, but I don't think that's how most people would understand the term. Heavy seems to relate to amount of doping rather than the amount of response. See heavy drinkers. From that list Thomas would've had a better Palmares if he hadn't been riding for others. Could be the same...

Two guys do the same Dope-X program and one has a larger response, would you say they were the heavier doper? Not really. Also, for various reasons, people develop and peak at different ages even in the absence of doping.

With the women's tour being less competitive/professional it might be more likely that riders have room to improve versus themselves and versus others by training harder/better.

Not sure if it was discussed on here, but a while back an England player was getting speed coaching by Alan Wells wife and also seemed to have a big jump in strength and was quite angry. Seemed quite suspicious to me at the time.

Yates was closer I think?

But if WVA's doping, the surely it's not the doping that's making the relative difference between big guy and wee guy? More likely it's wee guys working on their TTs and WVA being more fatigued by the end of the tour (GC guys being mostly protected, Van Aert spending a lot of time in the wind)

A thread for forum member size worries. Are wee guys time trialing too fast? Are big units going too hard uphill?