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Genuine question
Genuine answer; the parcours and particularly the weather has more to do with it than talent, equipment or even doping. Tour TTs are often straight out courses, and it doesn't take much of a following wind to get even an average rider up to a higher speed than a great one could manage on an out-an-back course.
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Tailwind, mad watts and so much more aero than most tour riders. Boardman was ahead of his time and cheated out of a lot of success.
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A question I've had since watching the opening stage time trial - when Dennis smashed it and broke the record for fastest average speed in a TdF tt. The record he broke was Boardman's. Which, therefore, must have stood through the most aggressive period of doping and generally escalating records/achievements. Is the explanation simply that a) he was really good or b) the Lotus bike he used was exceptionally aero and possibly bike or position have subsequently been legislated against? Or is he in any way suspect? Genuine question, just seems surprising that this record would have stood the test of the doped-up flyers, when others (ascents of notable climbs etc) were being smashed all over the shop.