Performance Process: Aero has come for the Roubaix specific tech
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Death, taxes, and wild tech at Paris-Roubaix used to be the three certainties in life, but if the 2024 edition of the Queen of the cobbles taught us anything, it's that the days of wild Roubaix-specific bikes and tech are a thing of the past.
In this Performance Process episode of two halves, Ronan is first joined by the crew at Specialized to talk through how the World Tour pros optimise for Paris-Roubaix in 2024 and how that compares to just a few years ago. In the second half, Ronan welcomes Swiss Side's JP Ballard onto the show once again to wrap all the cobbled classics campaign and tackle some of the more general tech questions the 2024 campaign threw up.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Performance Process Podcast. My name is Ron McLaughlin and I will be your |
| 0:16.0 | host for today's episode which we're going to use to take a deep dive into, well some of the |
| 0:22.1 | optimization and some of the tech trends around |
| 0:24.4 | this year's cobbled classics. In the first half of today's episode we will speak to |
| 0:29.6 | the crew from Specialized who I had the opportunity to join on a sort of a well a |
| 0:35.3 | recon ride of my own on Carrefour de Larrabra the one of the famous cobble sections |
| 0:40.5 | from Parry Bay and we had the chance there to sort of go through |
| 0:43.7 | some of the process that the team there used to optimize their world tour |
| 0:48.4 | riders ahead of Parro Bay and in the second half of this kind of lengthy episode is a |
| 0:55.1 | conversation a follow-up conversation with J.P. Ballard of Swisside who of |
| 0:59.2 | course was joined us on the podcast for a trilogy of of episodes earlier in the year and is back today to sort of wrap up the the classics campaign and again to get to get closer look at some of the |
| 1:10.5 | optimization that happens some of the reasoning behind the bike choices that we're seeing in Ruby these days we talk whether or not |
| 1:16.7 | we're ever going to see suspension again Ruby and if that is still the optimal setup if it could be done in an aerodynamic way |
| 1:23.7 | and yeah we touched on everything from that suspension conversation to tires to all sorts so yes |
| 1:30.0 | enjoy today's episode and with that we will jump across now to my conversation with |
| 1:35.9 | Specialised recorded on the eve of Parro Bay. |
| 1:38.7 | A bit of a special episode today because I'm coming to you from Kortrick in Belgium and I've got round the table here with me |
| 1:47.6 | Well four different individuals from specialized. I've just spent a day trying to optimize Ruby bike with with these with said |
| 1:56.3 | individuals and yeah just about halfway through the fifth or sixth time over |
| 2:01.8 | whatever called section I happen to be getting battered by |
| 2:05.1 | I had the wild idea that might be a good idea to sit down and record a podcast and a couple |
| 2:08.9 | hours later we're now sitting here that means I've had no time to prepare and so we don't really know where this |
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