Is there an aero advantage?
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i am not aware of figures which tell you how many seconds per km saved etc, but I can imagine that the psychological effect of "feeling" fast is enormous - and that would definitely be helped by overshoes
a little surprised he's not wearing them to be honest....
a little surprised he's not wearing them to be honest....
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find that a wee bit odd....
true that comfort is very important to performance but something like that - assuming your shoes fit properly - should be minor. changing position to rest your butt or crotch I can understand but shoes???
true that comfort is very important to performance but something like that - assuming your shoes fit properly - should be minor. changing position to rest your butt or crotch I can understand but shoes???
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ALx wrote:overshoes is the most important thing in a TT you save like 3s/km
Yeah....that is something I haven't EVER could measure in my training/racing.
Lycra ones are just for look, rubber ones MAY save some wei....time.
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is this something you can measure yourself?
I heard using no inner ring should save you about 3 sec. in a 40k tt ridden at a specific speed (50km/h?) Maybe you could do some theoretical math or measure a tiny difference in a windtunneltest, but even on a track with SRM I doubt you would see any difference in data.
I'm not sure how much overshoes do save, but I know that for speedskating there are special overshoes (different fabrics) to match the bodysuit that save quite some time.
I heard using no inner ring should save you about 3 sec. in a 40k tt ridden at a specific speed (50km/h?) Maybe you could do some theoretical math or measure a tiny difference in a windtunneltest, but even on a track with SRM I doubt you would see any difference in data.
I'm not sure how much overshoes do save, but I know that for speedskating there are special overshoes (different fabrics) to match the bodysuit that save quite some time.
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Seems to me that though many of the aero drag reductions possible would separately not be much, but all of them added up could be significant at TT race levels.
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