Riding faster makes you better looking - proven by SCIENCE

Females often prefer to mate with high quality males, and one aspect of quality is physical performance. Although a preference for physically fitter males is therefore predicted, the relationship between attractiveness and performance has rarely been quantified. Here, I test for such a relationship in humans and ask whether variation in (endurance) performance is associated with variation in facial attractiveness within elite professional cyclists that finished the 2012 Tour de France. I show that riders that performed better were more attractive, and that this preference was strongest in women not using a hormonal contraceptive. Thereby, I show that, within this pre- selected but relatively homogeneous sample of the male population, facial attractiveness signals endurance performance. Provided that there is a relationship between performance-mediated attractiveness and reproductive success, this suggests that human endurance capacity has been subject to sexual selection in our evolutionary past.

Postma E. (2014) A relationship between attractiveness and performance in professional cyclists. Biol. Lett. 10: 20130966.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0966

Lol...

Still, I can't argue with science and I need all the help I can get... I'm off to do hill reps in the stormy dark night.

Postma E. (2014) A relationship between attractiveness and performance in professional cyclists. Biol. Lett. 10: 20130966.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0966

However many attractive females tend to mate with wealthy short, fat, bald exotic types thereby short-circuiting what nature intended...

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However many attractive females tend to mate with wealthy short, fat, bald exotic types thereby short-circuiting what nature intended...

Bernie Eclestone?

Lol...

They didn't include Team Sky in the study because, apparently, they only had photos of their riders wearing shades