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Maximum Pace
- Aug 27, 2012
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First up admission is that I am a terrible descender. 5-year-old's on Mama Chari's overtake me coming down Wada.
However I just read an interesting article from the guy behind Sky's aerodynamic body positioning who is experimenting with dropper posts on Road Bikes. Apparently the reason the Pro's (eg Frome on that TdF descent) are moving on to their Top Tubes while descending, is that it lowers their back to reduce air resistance (and also provides a secondary benefit of lowering their centre of gravity). However it is not the safest position being so far forward, so instead he is trying to achieve the same thing with just allowing their seat to drop on descents....
Sadly my Synapse has a 25.4mm seat post so I can't try it out, but if anyone has (i) a dropper post (ii) the ability to fit a dropper post on their road bike (and the seat clearance to drop) would interested to hear if it works for them...
However I just read an interesting article from the guy behind Sky's aerodynamic body positioning who is experimenting with dropper posts on Road Bikes. Apparently the reason the Pro's (eg Frome on that TdF descent) are moving on to their Top Tubes while descending, is that it lowers their back to reduce air resistance (and also provides a secondary benefit of lowering their centre of gravity). However it is not the safest position being so far forward, so instead he is trying to achieve the same thing with just allowing their seat to drop on descents....
Sadly my Synapse has a 25.4mm seat post so I can't try it out, but if anyone has (i) a dropper post (ii) the ability to fit a dropper post on their road bike (and the seat clearance to drop) would interested to hear if it works for them...