10 PRO Tech Upgrades to COPY (and ones to AVOID!)

Never tried aero socks myself but I think thats the one thing everyone should give a try since it‘s one of the best bang for the buck aero upgrades.

I can’t believe you said to avoid aero socks. I can’t live without them. I wear them to the office to get work done faster.

Copy their discipline, food intake / nutrition, training routines (if one can), and pain tolerance. All pros must have set up their bikes to fit them comfortably, right? An untrained amateur with low discipline riding Pogi’s bike is like a grandma driving Verstappen’s RB20 F1 car: he might assume that he is ‘looking cool’, but miserable to the body, and laughable to others who watch (especially when passed by on the climbs by shitty aluminum bike)

A good skinsuit is incredibly comfortable and feels awesome to ride in when the jersey isn't creeping up and bunching on my back. Although my brother mentioned it'd be a nightmare needing to take a dump on the side of the road in a skinsuit, which keeps me from wearing it casually 😂

Those white overshoes may not have made you go faster, but they look hella 🔥🔥🔥🔥 and if you feel you look good, you ride better… 😂🙌🏽

I would disagree about the aero socks and skin-suit. I find both offer way more comfort than standard kit/socks, and give a slight aero boost.

Aero socks rule 🤷🤷🤷

A well fitting jersey save more watts than 60 mm carbon wheels. A narrower handlebar will also probably save more than an aero carbon bar/stem combo. When adressing weight - always count your prefered currency per grams saved. You’ll be surpriced to know that light weight wheels are probably the worst investment. TPU tubes, a lighter saddle and a lighter stem are more cost effective.

Cable integration is definitely something that makes very little sense for recreational riders. The aero gain is negligible and the cost and hassle is crazy.

With aero don’t forget apparent wind, at 25k into a 20k headwind = 45k wind speed for the rider

Disagree with aero socks. I sometimes use them, but not for aero gains. I actually find them confortable and mine are not too long, so they look nice.

6:13 there comes a point where we're just looking like clowns doing this lever tilting

bought a 28cm carbon handlebar from aliexpress — best 50.- upgrade, so much more conftable for my narrow shoulders and noticable aero gain. So far it really held up well!

Silca arrow socks give you 4 to 8 W advantage and only cost $30. The fabric is Italian and they are perhaps the most comfortable socks I’ve ever felt in my life so I would suggest everybody have a pair of them.

Plenty of aero socks are stylish

Great video! I have aero socks but got them for their looks actually not for the gains. I think the beauty is in the eye of beholder.

I often hear that aerodynamics don't matter much at lower speeds. Well let me enlightening you: punching home to the pub at 10mph into a 20mph headwind, it matters😊

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Quite frankly if you are replacing your bike with a new one because you can mount 30mm tyres on it, or even comes as standard and you are also using handlebars which are perhaps uncomfortable because they are 2-4 cm shorter in width, then if you personally do not resemble the Michelin Man, Aero Socks must be a must or not! Otherwise you are virtually cancelling out the effects of the bars for example. Pros were reluctant to change to disc brakes and now they are reluctant about wide tyres.. THEY did not get converted by the amateur rider.. THEY were forced to by bike manufacturers who will convince the generally stupid in order to sell yet another totally overpriced bike. Otherwise many pros would stick to rim brakes and tyres of their choice. Someone once told me from the bike industry I should run my tyres at a lower pressure, now my tyres are 26mm wide so obviously I did not lower the pressure much (normally 8 bar) anyhow after trying it out once the end result was 1 minute slower on my normal route and as for comfort I just noticed a slightly wishy washy bike handling. The bike press and the content makers of You Tube channels which influence so many nowadays is purely driven by the constant need to say either something new for more subscribers or selling the many idiots who think what they read or see on their monitors is gospel.. yet another new bike. Believe in yourselves and ride what you have got.. aero wheels and good legs are the most import items with legs being at the top of the list.. pro’s will beat everyone of us on even if you have the chance to borrow one of their team bikes, they will trash you even on a bike from the mid 80’s. As for comfort buy a Holland Bike, nice and comfy.. coming with the trend setting 46mm tyres, also with a basket for lots of drink bottles and space to spare for the latest edition of Bike BS.

just ordered aero socks yesterday