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Month: September 2015

[Sports] Why 6% should be the golden number in professional cycling

[Sports] Why 6% should be the golden number in professional cycling

Disclaimer : I don’t pretend to be a pro rider nor a sport doctor/physiologist, just a data scientist who sometimes likes to apply mathematical modeling to understand some real-world situations 🙂 Are all slopes only for lightweights ? I’m a bike enthusiast and I used to race (although I was far from being a champion!). I noticed during the training sessions among teammates that had approximately equivalent physical abilities than mine that our ways of performing were very different: every…

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