Solo Cyclist

With the cycling season warming up to the Giro Italia in a few days time and progressing to the Tour d'France,  it is good to understand the tactics and the strategies involved in the lead out train of the Sprinters. This video is from EuroSport and is one of the best videos explaining the tactics and mechanics involved. Easy to follow and the graphics mirroring the actual lead out is astounding and simple to understand. Have a look. Anatomy of a Sprint Lead Out

It all started innocently enough. My son asked me if I could join him for evening rides. He has a polygon bike that I got for him for RM500. It was heavy but it had 6 speed and rather bomb proof. I have been putting off buying a bike for months if not years. You see, although I am a fitness fanatic, I spend most of my time at the gym carrying weights. And I also run. During the time I reconnected with a few friends who were perhaps, the first wave of cycling nuts that hung out at Joo Ngan Pro shops. They were spewing up names and brands like Perogetti, Colnago... all too foreign to me. And also the price of those bikes, which was probably half the price of Malaysian made car that I was driving. I thought those guys were mad. If I was going to spend anything more than RM10,000 on a bike, it should pedal itself. What changed ? Perhaps it as RPM classes that I started at the gym, perhaps it was me wanting to bond with my son. So I decided to buy a bike. And so the worm hole was slowly...