Dan Bigham - aerodynamic testing, equipment, and making your bike fast | EP#229

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dan Bigham is a multiple British Champion (Time Trial and track), a member of the Huub Wattbike track team, and an aerodynamics consultant who recently helped the Danish track team beat the team pursuit world record. In this episode Dan goes into many of the most important aspects of optimizing aerodynamics on the bike. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Aerodynamics testing protocols: on the road, at the velodrome and in the wind tunnel -On-bike aerodynamic sensors and their use cases -Bike fit and aerodynamics -Equipment, upgrades and the £/watts ratio SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts229/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free. ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Huub Wattbike website Wattshop website Previous aerodynamics episodes on That Triathlon Show RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	do 5, 10, even more if you can, do the exact same test.
0:04.0	Go back home, calculate your CDA value for every single test,
0:08.0	and you're able to see what your stent your variance is like,
0:10.5	and anything outside of that you can probably believe as a true improvement.
0:14.1	Anything within that variance is within a wash, effectively.
0:19.5	The Treflin Show, 229.
0:35.1	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show the podcast
0:41.0	presented by scientificraathlon.com I'm our host Michael and on today's episode I interview
0:46.9	Dan Bigam who is a multiple British champion in both time trailing and track cycling. He's a member of the Hube Watbike track team, and he works as an aerodynamics consultant,
1:00.1	who, among other, marriage recently helped the Danish track team beat the team pursuit
1:05.6	world record.
1:08.2	Dan also owns his own business watch-up that produces certain aerodynamic components for
1:15.2	bikes and retails certain other components as well and we'll link to that in the show notes.
1:21.9	We'll get into the interview with Dan on aerodynamics, testing, testing protocols on bike aeronamic sensors, bike fitting and
1:30.6	equipment upgrades and so on right after thanking our sponsors.
1:35.4	First we have precision hydration.
1:38.0	Everybody loses sodium in their sweat at individual concentrations.
1:43.4	So somebody might have a very low concentration of sodium,
1:46.5	whereas another person has a high concentration,
1:49.2	which means that even for the same amount of sweat,
1:52.1	the sodium losses will be different,
1:54.5	which, or the course of a long race,
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