The Bigger You Are The Faster You Go? Weird Cycling Science!

Sprinters and Time-Triallers tend to be much larger than climbers - why is that? Join Ollie and Alex in an especially nerdy video, as we go through all of the maths to explain it and arrive at one shocking conclusion: Ganna is going to destroy the hour record and win the Paris Roubaix 😱____________________
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