Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
The video is just advertising aimed at selling trendy new stuff to dentists. The reason for the fast speeds again is Van der Poel, Van Aert, and Pog all pulling out all of the stops in a generational contest of wills. So the pro teams assembled and sacrificed their best riders to drive the pace, and unlike almost all previous contest, the teams did not sandbag for the first 100 or 200km, but went full-gas right out of the start.
Plus it was dry and not as dusty as usual.
This is the average for 25 years including today’s Liege - Bastogne - Liege. There is a noticeable increase in average speed year over year starting in 2019 which is also the time a majority of teams converted to disc brakes, wider tubeless tires and serious focus of aero gains.
You have been consistent and relentless stressing that these new techs will slow the riders and are a drag on performance. Please explain how speeds are increasing sport wide and not decreasing as you insist should be happening. The video was just a logical starting point why the increase in speed validated by numerous examples I have additionally provided. Other than rhetoric the naysayers have provided nothing.