Originally Posted by bostontrevor
The above theory is completely bogus. If you do a little searching, you can find some analysis from the first time it went around.
As for whether or not you can hang with roadies...sure, so long as the terrain isn't too extreme, you'll do fine.
Finnaly someone is reading the question! Thanks Trev ....
For all others that did not get the hint : no anecdata and no "Holomonic" paper. I already read a bunch of those.
Maybe I should go ahead and ask the Mythbusters about it.