New marginal gains ideas.

[red_flanders]

Re:

that you interpret that as a dig at Lemond rather than at Froome boggles the mind.
well, par for the course for you actually.

I didn't interpret it as a dig at Lemond. Strange.

 

[sniper]

Re: Re:

that you interpret that as a dig at Lemond rather than at Froome boggles the mind.
well, par for the course for you actually.

I didn't interpret it as a dig at Lemond.

of course you didn't.

Strange

agreed.

 

[42x16ss]

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why come up with new ones if you can just recycle old ones?

Two weeks later LeMond showed up in tennis shoes. “I ended up getting second place."
http://www.bikemag.com/pavedmag/5-reasons-why-hes-greg-lemond-and-youre-not/#9sziwrEIcyukVTpP.97

"[Chris] turned up in his sandshoes and he performed really well," recalled Brailsford.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/19/chris-froome-kenyan-tour-de-france

That you would compare the two situations boggles the mind.

One guy winning every race he entered from the first days he was riding a bike, the other with some verifiably made-up story about sand shoes (whatever those are) who won nothing until an amazing transformation later in his career.

Umm, that's the point...

 

[glassmoon]

Seeing that portable VO2 mask in GCN video (of yesterday, ep. 174) one can vividly picture Vroom completing his alien look wearing this doing uphill 200 rpm seated attacks on Ventoux... riding to powermax, riding to VO2 max.

Time for a special thread on new marginal gains ideas, perhaps. Do you have some?

gotta stick with my 2016 personal favorite: functional dehydration

 

[vedrafjord]

The new marginal gain is not offering your rider aero kit for the world championships, then making her sew a Sky logo cut out of another jersey onto her own skinsuit to keep the sponsors happy. The Sky logo is the crucial marginal gain that makes anything it's attached to go faster.

 

[42x16ss]

Nice one! I was going to go with pre-warning your scapegoat before telling the press (Pooley vs. Wigans' Jiffy bag).