Louch
105% knowledge on 105
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Miller was a bit embarrassing the way he was going on about Froome on Thomas bike. I get that oval are different, but no enough for how he gushed
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Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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Enough for Froome to choose to use them, train on them, and race on them.....horses for courses and all that.....if he's trained all season on ovals and has to use round there is going to be a world of difference for him. His power stroke has to be delivered differently. It's like running across a field in studs and then using spikes. Don't forget that teamSKY's mantra has always been "Incremental gains"...or in the words of Tesco, "Every little helps"
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Nonsense
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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Really? Then why does he use them? Give me your personal experience...or is it just an opinion?
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You claimed that Froome will have experienced a "world of difference" - utter bollocks.
Crandoggler
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
Still waiting for the interview of Bardet. Luckily, I got it on France2 channel. I think ITV4 is a bit biased towards English speaking riders only. ( Don't know if Bardet speaks English though).
Big Dave laaa
Biking Ninja
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- Flintshire
Imagine worrying about something as simple as a bike that fits. Not as if he had a mountain to climb or had to compete with the best cyclists on the planet. Of course it made a bloody difference.
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What difference did it make?
In real terms the relative gain/loss will be minimal but it will still be there. Perhaps he will have had to work x% harder? Perhaps his recovery will take x% longer. So many factors at play that we can only guess.
Truth is we'll never know.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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- Craggy Island
Although they do sometimes have people like Quintana and other peeps with subtitles on, so what the difference is I don't know.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
It cant be quantified, but it must make a difference, especially if you have just fallen off your own bike, and then have to trust someone elses.
Why do team put so much effort into bike fit if it didn't make a difference.
Saddle height and bar measurement would be different, Froome's arms and legs are longer than Thomas and he may have different gear ratios.
Also would the heart rate monitor work, i presume not, so he would be riding on feel rather than riding to numbers to stop going into the red zone.
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Froome must know how well he his, red zone wise, in comparison with the rest of the Sky riders, so provided he stayed stuck to Wout Poels wheel he could presumably judge he would be okay. Could explain why the pair of them have been almost glued together so often if the have very similar physics.
