CLLEX Speed Sessions (Pre Closure)

Motorpacing can help time-triallists because they need to get used to high speeds. But sprinters need the motorpacing more: In the last 5km of a race, they need to save as much as energy as possible while also going as fast as possible and sprint in the last 300 meters." “A time-triallist is always by themself and has different needs, but it could help them to be more responsive to wind direction and to what they can find on the road.”

This Episode is dedicated to alternative forms of physical conditioning that merits the importance of Biomechanics. The art of cycling as it amplifies your movements without wasting excessive effort and still come out fresh with remarkably less inflammation and zero dependence on energy supplements.

Motorpacing helps to improve:
•Neuromuscular firing (communication between the brain and muscles)
•Leg speed at high intensities (cadence at high power but low torque)
•Bike handling at high speeds.
•Racing skills (e.g: sprinting, leading out, attacking, riding an echelon)
•Mental awareness

WorldTour riders use motorpacing to simulate the demands of racing & is a training technique in which cyclists are paced by a motorized vehicle to train for race scenarios

Motorpacing is a training technique - The technique is almost as old as the bike itself. The origins of pacing date back to the end of the 19th century, when pacing races were carried out behind tandem bicycles. The game changed when riders started to follow in the draft from cars at the end of the century. In those years, grueling events like Bordeaux-Paris (595km) and even Paris-Roubaix had cars pacing the riders.
Then motorbikes came and allowed cyclists to reach average speeds of 50, 80, and 100kph.

Today, riders use motorpacing in training to simulate what they’ll face in a race: Spinning high cadence at high speed and lower torques, experiencing quick accelerations, improving responsiveness, getting used to “playing with the wind,” and saving energy.
“It is good for leg speed and cadence, You can’t ride around as fast as we race, and riding with a motorbike enables that. There is also quite a difference in torque when you accelerate at high speed or when you do sprint training from standing start, at 30kph, and then with a motorbike at 50kph. We need to train those accelerations.”