But is information power (as the saying goes), or can too much data or feedback be negative to performance to competitive cyclists? The most famous stem starer. Stem Staring. Rightly or wrongly, Chris ...

Much of it can’t easily be accessed or correlated with other data, because it exists in various raw forms in different systems. So the task is not at all like mining a rich vein of gold.

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