Rizal Philippines
February 12, 2018
We have often heard of slamming a bike. This applies mostly to road bike. What is slamming?
It involves tilting the seat by say 5 to 7 degrees, raising the height and lowering the bar and the stem by 5 to 10 cm by: cutting the fork further, removing the spacer and using stems that lower the level of the bar further.
Slamming the bike can result in 5 to 30 watts of required efforts. However, the benefits can be seen only at speeds from 30 to 40 kph. There is no benefit for slower speed.
The benefits were seen at wind tunnel (and verified in races) Thus in many races and tours, you see a lot of slammed bikes
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