Component Choices That Make You Faster with ENVE Composites – Ask a Cycling Coach 152

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Component upgrades should take more than weight and price into consideration. Every part of your bike should contribute to making you faster, whether through aerodynamics, comfort or mechanical efficiency. We dug into every important component choice you can make to get faster in the latest podcast with ENVE Composites.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

Why some pro racers run insanely low stack heights
Why are ergo bend handlebars are less common these days?
Why handlebar wall thickness matters
What to look for in a road handlebar
Why do pros run such long stems?
The pros and cons of rise stems
Do pros really need extra stiff stems?
How do you make a seatpost comfortable?
Why short seat rail clamps are better
Why doesn't ENVE make a saddle?
How to engineer flex into a component
Why are wheels getting wider?
Are wide wheels faster?
How to make a wheel aerodynamically efficient
What makes a wheel good in crosswinds?
How disc brakes are actually making your bike faster

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Coach Jonathan here with a special episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast.
0:04.6	This past week we were in Monterey, California, at Laguna Seca for the sea otter classic,
0:09.6	the all things racing and bike expo that happens every year around this time.
0:14.1	While we were there, I sat down with a couple guests, including Pete Morris,
0:17.3	our product manager that you heard just a couple weeks ago who races for Team Cliff Bar.
0:21.7	And we had a discussion about componentry. So our guests are from NV composites.
0:26.7	NV is a company that does things a bit differently and it's been evident to us.
0:30.6	We've been using their stuff for the 40 kilometer time trial. I've been using their stuff on road
0:35.2	and on mountain for quite some time. And I feel like they go about things very differently.
0:40.0	After talking to them, I realized that they really do go about things differently.
0:43.7	So while this may very well seem just like an NV commercial, giving NV an opportunity to talk
0:47.8	about their product, I wanted to dig deeper into what you should actually look for in different
0:53.9	componentry in terms of performance. Should a road handlebar perform a specific way?
0:58.7	We don't usually think about that. We just usually think about weight, price, maybe durability.
1:03.1	We don't really think beyond that. So apply that to all the different component choices we make.
1:07.8	And I feel like there's a lot of low-hanging fruit for a lot of us that are listening to this.
1:11.6	We put in so much effort into all the training that we do. We can probably make a whole lot of gains
1:16.4	as well by just making smarter component decisions. So I hope you can learn from this conversation
1:22.0	what you should look for from a component, whether that be a wheel, a handlebar, anything else
1:26.8	like that, whether that's NV or not. Let's look deeper into the component choices that we make
1:32.3	and get faster. And one last thing, we were using a different microphone setup and we had some audio
1:37.7	issues. So I apologize in advance for the buzzing will here. Hopefully you can hear through that.
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