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Is that a height thing?
Bobridge is a short stocky guy. Totally different build compared to say Wiggins.
I do the sufferfest TT vid 'the long scream' a lot. That has Bobridge, Cance, Wiggo, and Martin. Its pretty interesting (and a welcome distraction) watching the differing techniques and positions.
Smallfurry-
Being tall won't help your CdA because of the unavoidable frontal area. You can get a low CdA with a fairly normal looking position but I just don't think they'd stick him into a team pursuit >0.02m^2 lower than everyone else (which is the ballpark figure I saw).
Looking forward to the attempt, I have everything ready to graph up his splits so they'd better not cut to a bloody ad break!
xavierdisley
I should be able to do some analysis on that if I have time today, I have data from the Aus Nationals TT recently. Someone ages ago said Bobridge had a CdA of ~0.185 in the tunnel but that sounds a bit low to me. Possible, but low - and with his typical forward position and high head, pretty unlikely.