Style and posture notes in racing (part 2)
09/06/2012
A few days ago, in the blog post "Style and posture grades in racing?" , we showed various more or less perfect riding positions of racing cyclists and wondered why no one ever came up with the idea of introducing style and posture grades like in ski jumping.
Now you could actually have rated both. On the one hand, the driver behind the wheel with criteria such as sitting position, facial expression and clothing, and on the other hand the vehicle by applying driving dynamics criteria: How high does he lift his wheel, what is his lean angle, how much understeer does he have and how far does the loaded tire move away from the rim?
To make you smile, here are four extreme examples, taken at the slalom in Dübendorf in 1959.
