Your riding position can give you an advantage in a road cycling sprint
- Written by Paul Franciscus Johannes Merkes, PhD candidate, Edith Cowan University
Many professional road cycling events are hundreds of kilometres long, but the final placings are often decided by what happens in the last few seconds of any race stage.
New research shows that a rider can gain up to an extra 5kph advantage in those final sprint seconds, and it all depends on how they position themselves on their bicycle.
That can...
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