Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 1/25/2025 11:04 AM, cyclintom wrote:

 
Frank, using average speeds of flat races where the riders are in high
gear all of the time, the roads have been vastely degrading year to year
and the distances have been being reduced is hardly a way to measure the
effect of shifting components.

 
Are those all flat races? Really? And have the roads really degraded in
the past 40 years or so? I'd love to see your evidence on both points.
 
 

Kinda the opposite bit like the queen always visiting to the whiff of new
paint, number of areas resurfacing as part of the deal for which ever Tour
visits and if anything they have searched out steeper climbs to well climb
which wasn’t popular amongst the peloton at the time, see David Millar and
the Alto de l'Angliru which admittedly is steep at around 25% at steepest
apparently.

He got off the bike was a good interview on GCN a while back it’s behind
paywalls and so on now.

By today’s standards it’s steep but not extremely so but bike gearing
wasn’t up to snuff then and so on.

Roger Merriman