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Are Slower Speeds Really the Key to Rider Safety? | THEMOVE+

THEMOVE

Lance Armstrong

Arts

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin discuss Tour de France Director Christian Prudhomme's recent comments about how increased average speeds are making races more dangerous and how a Canadian amateur, Jack Burke, is taking the Strava KOM on so many famous climbs, before answering a few listener questions.

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0:00.0

I think what predominies to realize is that the reason why cycling is going faster and faster,

0:06.8

yes, the equipment has improved. Yes, the roads have improved. There's not much you can do about that,

0:11.8

but the main reason is that the athletes have gotten better and better. Nowadays, you can see

0:18.2

that races are going fast from the start to the finish.

0:22.6

You know, if I think back, not even in my days, but even in Lances and Georgia's period,

0:28.6

the races didn't go full gas all the time.

0:31.6

There was usually, you know, a warm-up, there was a breakaway that went and then the peloton slowed down.

0:40.1

And they were using basically the easy parts of the course to recover.

0:44.7

Downhills, they didn't go full gas.

0:46.5

They go full gas everywhere now.

0:48.4

So what can you do to stop that?

0:50.7

Nothing.

0:53.9

Everybody, welcome back to the Move plus our weekly installment of the show i'm

0:58.7

here with johan bernil i'm spencer martin i am going to run through a few topics of the week and then

1:04.0

we'll get to a few listener questions again if you want those read please email info at we do dot team

1:10.0

and we will get to them as soon as we can.

1:13.0

But first,

1:13.4

Johan,

1:13.8

before we get into the show,

1:15.0

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1:17.3

which is Zwift.

1:18.7

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