6 Easy Ways To Improve Your Average Speed On A Road Bike

🚴 FREE 6-Week Training Plan - raise your FTP and build the engine to hold it, on just 4 hours a week. Includes ready-to-ride Zwift workouts: https://cyclingnutshell.kit.com/freeplan How do you actually raise your average speed on a road bike? Six changes make almost all the difference, and most of them are completely free. This one pulls together the training and fuelling research with real-world tire and aerodynamics testing data to separate what works from advice that's gone out of date. we break down how to get faster for less: building fitness with sweet spot training, cutting drag with a smaller tucked position, pacing hills and headwinds with variable effort instead of a flat pace, fueling with the modern 60 to 120 gram carb numbers, running the right tire pressure now that lower often rolls faster, keeping your drivetrain clean and brakes rub-free, the best-value upgrades in fast tires and tubes, aero clothing, and the single biggest free gain of all, drafting a stronger rider. Further reading and sources: → Pairing glucose with fructose raises how much carbohydrate you can absorb and burn per hour (Jeukendrup) https://link.springer.com/article/10.... → Above a surface's breakpoint pressure, rolling resistance climbs, so lower pressure is often faster on real roads (Silca) https://silca.cc/blogs/silca/part-4b-... → Narrowing the elbows and refining arm position measurably cuts a rider's aerodynamic drag (Maddocks & Walker) https://link.springer.com/article/10.... #cycling #cyclingtraining #cyclingperformance