Aero Deep Dive in The Specialized Win Tunnel – Ask a Cycling a Coach 188

[Captain_Doughnutman]

@Bioteknik

Merckx style on a road bike?

Road w/ clip-ons.

But a guy who did go Merckx did 340w and beat me by 1:11.

Clip on aero vs tt bike

I can only compare my RR and competitor’s TT bike on the same 21km course (all times relative to mine). But, as you will see…there’s way more to it than that. 285w on RR w/ clip-ons = me. 285w with deep dish wheels and aero helmet = 2:20min faster. 300w with semi-aero everything = 2:56min slower. 330w with TT bike, full aero, disk wheel, etc = 11s faster. 340w on a RR with no aero anything except skinsuit = 1:11min faster. It’s all over the shop. Don’t think just because you …