I believe the last post I started on here was removed due to suspected product placement subterfuge on behalf of Reynolds–it was a wheel review, and they are still a hot set–but not before I was butchered for my position on the bike. I think one person even spliced my race shot next to a shot of Tony Martin. Nice.
Besides the facts that a) the particular bike is full of fail <7.5 degrees of yaw b) the rider is overweight and out of shape recovering from surgery, how does it look? It feels powerful, and to my untrained eye it looks like I’m only 40 or 50 watts shy of where I could be…once I get the Octane suit on + the aero skewers.
how about less than half that at zero (which very few riders experience for any significant amount of time outside of a velodrome…and that’s against the only bike that’s aerodynamically competitive).
the forearm angle looks a little tweener-ish compared to what conventional wisdom (flat) and occasional empirical evidence (full-on mantis) indicates is fastest…but if that (and the hitch/rocking in your leg stroke) is an artifact of the injury or surgery then it is what it is. everything else looks pretty solid. nice shrug.
I agree with the aerobar angle. Odds are it’s more drag than horizontal, unless you did wind tunnel testing.
Man I wish I had that integrated front end. the stack height is so much lower out of the box. I’m on a -25 degree stem with no spacers to get that low on my SC7.5, also a medium.
head position looks great, and back in nice and flat with good hip rotation. Now… can you hold that position well for 1, 2, 3 or even 5 hours (depending on what race distance you do)?
Segue… but I’ve had a hitch forever. Can’t seem to get rid of it. Left femur is ~2cm shorter, and a shorter crank and some cleat spacer adjustment helps, but it is still there. I stretch and concentrate on making it smooth, but it just doesn’t want to happen. Maybe too many years of compensation before I realized what was happening.
Segue… but I’ve had a hitch forever. Can’t seem to get rid of it. Left femur is ~2cm shorter, and a shorter crank and some cleat spacer adjustment helps, but it is still there. I stretch and concentrate on making it smooth, but it just doesn’t want to happen. Maybe too many years of compensation before I realized what was happening.
I also have a hitch in my right leg pedal stroke that I cannot make go away no matter what I do. I have been fitted several times by one of the best fitters in Houston and we have tried everything to try to get rid of it. Left leg pedal stroke is flawless. Finally we just chalked it up to that’s how it’s naturally going to be and as long as it doesn’t bother me (which it doesn’t) to not worry about it.
