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cycling safety, Features, Learn, Minimum passing distance laws, Science - April 23, 2020

Push and pull: The surprising physics of a too-close pass

It happens in an instant. You’re out riding, minding your own business, and before you have a chance to react, a car flies past you at great speed, and far too close for comfort. You’re buffeted around in the squall, and for a brief moment it feels as if the car’s draft has sucked you …

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Caleb Ewan, Features, Learn, News, Science, sprinting - October 11, 2019

Confirmed: Power output isn’t compromised in a super-low sprint position

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Caleb Ewan’s sprint position has become something of a fascination in recent years. Here at CyclingTips we’ve written a handful of articles on the subject, largely because there’s been a bunch of research showing how effective the position is. In the past year, no fewer than three independent studies, from different researchers, using different methods, …

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What 12,000 efforts on Adelaide’s most popular climb say about uphill pacing

You’re at the bottom of your favourite local climb, looking at the road snake its way up the hill ahead of you. You’ve ridden this climb a bunch of times but today is a little different — today you’re trying to set a new PB. You take a few deep breaths to compose yourself, take …

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Caleb Ewan’s sprint position is the best. So why isn’t everyone using it?

It’s pretty obvious: if you can get down low in a sprint, you’re going to be more aerodynamic than if you’d stayed upright. You don’t need to do a bunch of research to realise that the ultra-low sprint position employed by Caleb Ewan is pretty effective. But hey, if research is what you’re after, that …

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Drafting behind race motos provides a bigger advantage than first thought

It’s stage 19 of the 2018 Tour de France and Primoz Roglic has just broken clear of his GC rivals on the day’s final descent. The Slovenian had tried to get away on the last climb, the Col d’Aubisque, but it’s only on the descent to Laruns that he manages to open a gap. He …

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