It is hard to keep track of all the cover stories...err, excuses...err, marginal gains...err, things that no one in the history of cycling ever thought of before.
1) The year long peak. Stop being a bone-idle ****er by taking it easy while carefully building to a peak for a targeted event. Just maintain maximum form all year. Brilliant. Just brilliant. It's hard to understand why everyone does not do this.
2) Cadence. Reducing cadence (even though you appear to use the same RPM as everyone else and the same RPM that you used the previous x number of years) increases time trialing speed. No one can quite explain it, but it has something to do with rolling resistance and the gears.
3) Warming down. Not quite an innovation. Apparently everyone in cycling forgot a fundamental piece of advice that has been used by excercisers for decades if not centuries.
4) Training hard all year with nary a break. Another example of bone-idle ****erness that is all too common in cycling, its fans, and humanity in general. Again it is one of those things that would be unbelievable if we did not know it was true. No cyclist ever thought to train hard in the off-season. ****s.
5) Mood lights. Okay, I'll give Sky this one. No one ever throught of that. I am sure Krebs will be around shortly to post a load of hypothetical mumbo jumbo "proving" that could increases efficiency but with not a scintilla of evidence showing that it actually makes anyone faster on the road when combined with all the other factors that make up performance.
6) Ugly BC bikes. Designed with a fraction of the resources available to the large companies like Trek, Specialized, and Cervelo, all of which have spent years making frames for the profitable triathlon market and have huge financial incentives to one-up each other's products for obsessed middle aged triathlete age groupers who think that a single gram of extra drag might cost them a Kona slot. The plucky Secret Squirrel Club managed to put one over on all those money grubbing Americans and quite a few greedy Canadians as well. If only they had been freed of the burden of making a profit by making a better product instead of just doing it for queen and country. Good show!
1) The year long peak. Stop being a bone-idle ****er by taking it easy while carefully building to a peak for a targeted event. Just maintain maximum form all year. Brilliant. Just brilliant. It's hard to understand why everyone does not do this.
2) Cadence. Reducing cadence (even though you appear to use the same RPM as everyone else and the same RPM that you used the previous x number of years) increases time trialing speed. No one can quite explain it, but it has something to do with rolling resistance and the gears.
3) Warming down. Not quite an innovation. Apparently everyone in cycling forgot a fundamental piece of advice that has been used by excercisers for decades if not centuries.
4) Training hard all year with nary a break. Another example of bone-idle ****erness that is all too common in cycling, its fans, and humanity in general. Again it is one of those things that would be unbelievable if we did not know it was true. No cyclist ever thought to train hard in the off-season. ****s.
5) Mood lights. Okay, I'll give Sky this one. No one ever throught of that. I am sure Krebs will be around shortly to post a load of hypothetical mumbo jumbo "proving" that could increases efficiency but with not a scintilla of evidence showing that it actually makes anyone faster on the road when combined with all the other factors that make up performance.
6) Ugly BC bikes. Designed with a fraction of the resources available to the large companies like Trek, Specialized, and Cervelo, all of which have spent years making frames for the profitable triathlon market and have huge financial incentives to one-up each other's products for obsessed middle aged triathlete age groupers who think that a single gram of extra drag might cost them a Kona slot. The plucky Secret Squirrel Club managed to put one over on all those money grubbing Americans and quite a few greedy Canadians as well. If only they had been freed of the burden of making a profit by making a better product instead of just doing it for queen and country. Good show!