This DEVICE Is About To RESHAPE Pro Cycling

    We’ve known power meters, heart rate straps and heart rate variability trackers for years now, and they’ve become somewhat of a staple in cycling. But let’s forget those for a minute. A certain device just got revealed, that is set to cause a cycling revolution, bigger than a heart rate monitor did over 40 years ago. And even though it’s been used in sports for decades, the cycling world hasn’t really used it efficiently yet. We’re talking about continuous lactate monitors, and those small and simple devices are much more powerful than you could imagine. But how could this piece of technology change the sport? And when is it going to hit the peloton?

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    21 Comments

    1. Lactate and Glucose real time monitors could get widespread adoption. If only the device isn’t disposable and very expensive.

      Real time glucose monitoring is very useful to diabetics.

    2. I’m looking forward to the day that cycling racing introduces principles from Japanese Kerin racing and maybe a bit of NASCAR. Everyone rides exactly the same bike. No radios, no power meters or heart rate monitors or lactate meters, just riders, bikes (and it can/should be sophisticated and exceptional and from sponsor brands, just technologically the same as every other riders bike), water bottles, musettes and team mates, strategy, tactics, pain and …racing.

    3. I heard about the concept in 2018 from an elite European rowing coach. Just a few years later, here we are close to product launch. Knowing LT1 is in real time is incredibly useful and actionable information. Very compelling.

    4. Armstrong measured everything (including PED). He even had his own chef prepare meals with exact proportions all year round. If the tools are safe, let anyone who want to use them use them.

    5. Cycling races would be so much better without tech. Just imagine how good the end of long races would be with no power meters or radios. Everyone would have to be on their game all race. Everyday small teams could go out and attack and destroy GC contenders.

    6. Apparently some have never actually watched a real pro race. All this info is an after thought, just a small tool among many. Number watching will not allow one who's not capable, to be. It will help one, but it will not be this morphic game changer.

    7. As long as pros don’t forget to eat and drink their gels and bottles I don’t see how this will affect racing rather than training. Racing is dictated by the pace of the leaders and terrain not by lactate levels

    8. You can already get close to this – there are devices that measure respiratory frequency and give extremely good estimates for tidal volume, so you can monitor your breathing live. How you breathe is very closely correlated to lactate <VO2 Max

    9. Taking all the fun out of sports.. If you're going to control everything up till the last watt, you might aswell change humans for robots, and let those do the racing.

      Also: all this innovation has no benefit if everyone is using it.. It's just 1 more thing to be worried about, and have to pay money for. And all it does is making the race itself less fun to do and watch. It will just be about team owners beating team owners.

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