Originally Posted by
vintage cellar
I often ride with some stuff in one of my jersey pockets. Maybe my folded-up rain jacket is affecting the handling on my bike ?
How in the world did Greg Lemond manage to even ride a bike - he had only one kidney, so the balance issues must have been immense !
Not buying it that any of this stuff makes much difference except for people telling themselves that it does.
Yes, there is the placebo effect, which is significant in medicine and perhaps in how a bike rides or how the canoe tracks. For me, changing the saddle was huge. I went from a bike that pulled to the right a little to a bike that tracked as straight as an arrow. I don’t understand why, but I found it was an actual fix to my issue and not a placebo. Placebo or not (it is not) I just thought it would be helpful to put my experience out there.
Drew