Curious if anyone has come across studies or knows of information about deciding your pull order depending on your team’s abilities and makeup. I see a lot of teams create a pull order for their team starting with the strongest / most experienced riders, to the weakest / least experienced riders. Bi…

Well assuming you are doing a proper TTT then you’ll all be riding through and off - so the strength of the rider will dictate how much time they spend driving the pace on the front. If you have any complete passengers doing no turns there isn’t a great deal of point in them being there.

Valid point, I hadn’t thought about height at all

If you haven’t seen it, The Pursuit (Team KGF / HUUB Wattbike documentary) is awesome. It has a tiny bit of discussion about their run order and turn lengths around 12:00 in… Putting man 1 on the front from the start until he blows up is probably not a good strategy if your TTT is more than 4K thou…

I’ve found it depends on a whole bunch of factors. Height and size (determines how big a draft there is), raw watts, W/kg, gradient, position, equipment. Also the context - is it a standalone TTT where the only thing that matters is getting round fast, or is it a TTT in a stage race and you have a…

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I like it based on height since I’m 6’3 I don’t want to pull after someone 5’4” since I’ll be stuck the whole ride with no draft

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