‘I was talking to Matej Mohorič one day and he assumed that, – just by looking at him – I’d be able to tell his CdA. I just went with it, like, “Yeah, point two three on the TT bike, a bit more on the road bike.”’
CdA is the coefficient of aerodynamic drag, a single number derived from complex calculations that expresses a rider’s aerodynamic efficiency. The fact that Mohorič – a winner of Milan-San Remo and a technical whizz himself – would ask this question says it all. Alex Dowsett’s early career may have seen him hallmarked as the haemophiliac time-trial prodigy, but by the end the boy from Maldon was known for something else: an uncanny understanding of how to go faster.
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Dowsett hung up his aerosocks at the end of last season and in April swapped Andorra at altitude for life back at sea level in Essex. That marked the end of a 13-year career in
