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This sounds dumb but it might just be he is braking less. It's impossible to see on telly how much they are using their brakes. From the way Pidders moves around the road and the body position on his bike it might just be he's not braking as much and so is faster. Sounds dumb but take Froome's comment when he said that Pidders was pushing the limit. Sounds to me like Froome was braking and Pidders wasn't - there are some sections where they must be totally hands off but they have to be doing a bit of feathering and moving their body around to slow down down and position as they weave their way down mountains. And people like Pidders and Nibbles just must brake less. Or am I way off base never actually done descending like this
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And without closed roads, us non pros probably never will get to descend like that.
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Pidcock brakes, but he carries more speed through the corners, which is where the gains are made. Froome was fortunate yesterday that Pidcock caught him just before Plan Lachet, as the road straightens significantly after there, so he didn’t have to try and keep up through the corners.
Acliff
andyp
I'd never really considered that there must be a cross over point where the aeros of being tiny on a descent trumps the pull of gravity on bigger guys but it was there yesterday. And the physics of grip when cornering, lower centre of gravity etc?