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Last Post 06/07/2015 08:51 AM by Frederick Jones. 1 Replies.
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06/07/2015 07:54 AM
With more and more technology creeping into to cycling does it make sense for a pro team to hire a full time technologist .? Basically an engineer that keeps up with stuff and tries to optimize rider / equipment performance. I'm sure the teams rely heavily on the sponsors engineering team but that can sort of get tricky. Who really makes the call as to what to ride ?
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06/07/2015 08:51 AM
Sponsors!
There is a history of cosmetic changes that maximized the benefits to riders and still made sponsors happy - such as Litespeeds painted to look like euro sponsors' steel bikes a few of decades back. Seems like that would be hard to do that with components and other tech.

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