Go to this site.
http://www.nytro.com/WhatIsTheBestWayToReduceDrag.html
and immediatly buy and use the equipment they say to buy.
youll go 5 ish miles an hour faster over a 40k.
Chances are you’re already doing these things.
So then what?
How to go fast on a bike? Pedal fast in a big gear.
shouldve put “sarcasm” in my post. But i though it was funny how they wrot ethe info by posting time drops. Scientifically true, but real world maybe not for some.
That is funny. I read way too much Cervelo white paper stuff a few years ago and bought into all the hype. None of it ever materialized. I rode a Cervelo frame with Vision Tech bars and was only marginally faster than the year before on similar courses. Since I also increased my training volume by about 30 percent I tend to think it was my hard work that made me faster.
I think aero frames are the most bogus of the group because they aren’t really aero anymore when you hang a rider, water bottle, spare tire, ect. somewhere on the bike for a race. I ditched my supposedly “aero” frame and bought a bike that was more stable at speed and that did help me go faster, but again it was another increase in training volume that probably mattered there as well.
The one question I had was the “aero shifting”. Do they mean if you use bar end shifters and stay on the aerobars the whole time? If so, then that is one I can believe. And I think the wheels probably make a difference. I hope the aero helmet makes a difference because I bought one off a friend for $50 and it is uncomfortable.
Chad