rubik wrote:
benleg wrote:
IMO increasing your willingness to crash will increase your crit results alot more that chasing marginal gains. So having a "walk away" bike (with ok wheels) is better that a super bike you will want to scratch.
Where do people come up with this?
It's utter nonsense.
If you crash, you lose. Pretty simple concept. No one wants to crash.
Sure, you don't want to crash... but power alone will not make you make you win in a bike race.
If you hesitate you lose !!! (assuming that you are in the correct Cat)
A of things need to go right to win a bike race... what i'm saying is that your willingness to take risk will help you a lot more that 2% efficiency.
What % of successful crit racers had crashes ?
Note: I probably have the watts of a Cat 2-3 (maybe), but do not have the like taking corner at speed with people around me (in part because; i don't like braking bones, in part i don't want to scratch my nice bike).... so i do tri
Note 2: a fairly good downhill skier, in a part of the world with a lot of hidden rocks... guess what; i'm a better skier when i use my older skis that i don't really care about... less hesitations (thus less falls) and more focus on having fun than trying to preserve my bases.