Another good title for your post (and title of a book) would be:
“It Has Hardly ANYTHING To Do With the Bike.”
Sorry, bicycle manufacturers and retailers. Sorry ST advertisers.
Human engine, aerobic endurance, strength, body weight, body position, helmet, wheelset, body conforming of number, apparel–yeah.
Aero fork, aero head tube, aero down tube, aero seat tube, aero seatpost, internal cables, aero water bottle, no water bottle, ceramic bearings, titanium saddle rails, 21 cm tubulars? Again, a little, but hardly.
And the emperor has no clothes.
Sooo in your reality wind doesn’t hit the bike frame? Only the wheels and helmet?
Also strength doesn’t matter… But keep going you’re on a roll.