brad m<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cycling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/letour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>letour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bicycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bicycle</span></a> <br>“The 2025 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TourdeFrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TourdeFrance</span></a> saw 3320km of racing and 51500m of climbing.<br>The overall winner, Tadej Pogačar of Team UAE Emirates-XRG and Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-lease a Bike, have at their disposal two dedicated aero <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikes</span></a> and two lighter climbing frames. Despite many other teams also using a two-<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bike</span></a> strategy … the top two riders didn’t touch their climbing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bike</span></a>. For the entire event” <br>“To explore why, we need to turn to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a>” 🚲 <a href="https://www.cyclingweekly.com/newsfeeds/the-tour-de-france-just-killed-the-climbing-bike-heres-the-physics-that-proves-it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cyclingweekly.com/newsfeeds/th</span><span class="invisible">e-tour-de-france-just-killed-the-climbing-bike-heres-the-physics-that-proves-it</span></a></p>