I've thought long and hard about this issue as I am disappointed to see that in certain ways there has been a polarising effect between the TBB forum and Slowtwitch, which has degraded in some instances into childish name calling. I refuse to be painted into either corner because, as you say, there is value in the hard work approach and also the tech approach. But why not both as you say. Put both together and you get what the British track cycling team got in Beijing. However remember that Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton are not inside the Secret Squirrel club. They just do the training and racing. Ditto for Team CSC. They set 'em up, we ride 'em.

Age Groupers for the most part have to figure most of this out for themselves, hence the value of a forum like ST. But the information therein needs to be handled with care.

There is a false perception that TBB are anti technology because CW rode with drops in Germany, equally a false perception of slowtwitchers because there's a lot of tech talk. But Bella and Stephen rode on P3Cs at Embrun, and there's a lot of training hours logged by Slowtwitchers....


.......as will likely become more evident at some point in the near future I recall if there is a training log integrated into ST.

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