This is maybe the most important part of this whole discussion, haha.. How do you make a timing chip more aero?

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I used the Silca Aero Socks for IMFL last year and just pulled the sock over the chip. Easy to get on and helps keep the chip secure. No idea on aero benefit, but assume it cant be worse than a "raw" chip?

Are you really going to do that test or were you joking?

Thanks Jim. And appreciate the clarification.

I think the data you present is fine and quantifies the potential savings better than “absolute watts”. And like you said, watts can paint the wrong picture if used incorrectly. Personally, I think a few folks are just being lazy and cheap. They want spoon fed the information and don’t want to do a little math and reverse engineering. Nor spend their own money to get their own real world results.

I guess I enjoy this stuff too much and little bit of math never hurt anyone.

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Its got nothing to do with lazy or cheap, it's the viewer experience. What is there to lose by providing this info? Nothing...what is there to gain? Well Im sure there is nothing people enjoy more than pausing a video, grabbing the calculator, looking at the graphics and going 'o.k, he saved 5.7 watts, which was a 2.36% saving, so grabbing my trusty calculator means he was doing 240 watts'...awesome

so obviously take this with a huge grain of salt, but on Friday I decided to A/B test rule28 socks I got over the winter to regular socks (I had bombas brand socks with me). I did a 13 mile loop and both times the power was around 210 (there was a diff of one watt between the efforts). The regular socks were actually faster lol I think the wind was a little stronger on my trial with rule28 based on a visual inspection on mywindsock, so there's that and of course a better test involves multiple tests. But I found it funny nonetheless!

Great to know - thanks!

Doubt we will see any test results comparing with/without timing chip. I guess we must assume that the test results would be the same (or very close to the same) with an ankle timing chip underneath the sock.

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This would be an easy test I’d simply do with one athlete and could be a YouTube Short. I’ll work on it in the next week or two.

To the person who asked about the leg shaving mega test…yes, we’re doing it. I’ll probably wait for the off season though.

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Been looking at aero sleeves.

CompressSport; Slica etc etc
But stumbled on the Trimtex / Surpas Insane Calf LDT Sleeves ones.
150€ holy moly!!

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The leg shaving test is definitely one that will get lots of clicks. Especially if you incorporate some leg hair turbulators!