{"id":63209,"date":"2024-04-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/43a2d9ef-51c2-416d-ba2a-5aea0ec91cbc"},"modified":"2024-04-29T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:59:38","slug":"bikeradar-podcast-why-are-the-pros-using-such-big-chainrings-and-should-we-be-doing-the-same","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/rss_feed\/bikeradar-podcast-why-are-the-pros-using-such-big-chainrings-and-should-we-be-doing-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"BikeRadar Podcast | Why are the pros using such big chainrings and should we be doing the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">Simon von Bromley and Liam Cahill chat chainrings in the pro peloton <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 29 April 2024 at 16:00 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Why are pros using such big chainrings and should you be doing the same?\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4HBFmRVEYOdAB9YBBNshJh?si=ui935RD5RmeOKkAHYC3bMg&amp;utm_source=oembed\"\/><\/div><\/figure><p>In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Simon von Bromley sits down with Liam Cahill to talk about the recent trend of oversized chainrings in the pro peloton.<\/p><p>Following on from Simon&#8217;s feature \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/features\/tech\/why-are-pros-using-such-big-chainrings\">you can read the full deep-dive here<\/a> \u2013 the two discuss common chainring sizes and theorise why we&#8217;ve seen pros more commonly using 54T chainrings \u2013 and far bigger. 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