Road Cycling

Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science Road Cycling IOC Medical Commission Sub-commission on Publications in the Sport Sciences G. Howard Knuttgen PhD (Co-ordinator) Boston, Massachusetts, USA Francesco Conconi MD Ferrara, Italy Harm Kuipers MD, PhD Maastricht, The Netherlands Per A.F.H. Renstrom Stockholm, Sweden Richard H. Strauss MD Los Angeles, California, USA Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science Road Cycling EDITED B Y Robert J. Gregor Department of Health & Performance Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0110 USA Francesco Conconi Professor of Applied Biochemistry University of Ferrara Via Gramicia 35 1-44100 Ferrara Italy b Blackwell Science 0 2000 Blackwell Science Ltd Editorial Offices: Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 OEL 25 John Street, London WClN 2BL 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6AJ 350 Main Street, Malden MA 02148 5018, USA 54 University Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia 10, rue Casimir Delavigne 75006 Paris, France Other Editorial Offices: Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH Kurfurstendamm 57 10707 Berlin, Germany Blackwell Science KK MG Kodenmacho Building 7-10 Kodenmacho Nihombashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan First published 2000 Set by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd. Bodmin. Cornwall The Blackwell Science logo is a trade mark of Blackwell Science Ltd, registered at the United Kingdom Trade Marks Registry The right of the Authors to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library ISBN 0-86542-912-X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data Road cycling/edited by Robert J. Gregor, Francesco Conconi. p. ; cm. (Handbook of sports medicine and science) Includes index. ISBN 0-86542-912-X 1. Cycling-Physiological aspects. 2. Sports medicine. 3. Biomechanics I. Gregor, Robert J. 11. Conconi, Francesco, 1935-. 111. Series. [DNLM: 1. Bicycling-physiology. 2. Biomechanics. 3. Sports Medicine QT 260.5.B5 R628 20001 RC1220.CB R63 2000 612’.044-dc21 99-046476 DlSTRlBlJTORS Marston Book Services Ltd PO Box 269 Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN (Orders:Tel: 01235 465500 Fax: 01235 465555) USA Blackwell Science, Inc. Commerce Place 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148 5018 (Orders:Tel: 800 759 6102 781 388 8250 Fax: 781 388 8255) Canada Login Brothers Book Company 324 Saulteaux Crescent Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 3T2 [Orders:Tel: 204 837 2987) Australia Blackwell Science Pty Ltd 54 University Street Cadton, Victoria 3053 (Orders:Tel: 3 9347 0300 Fax: 3 9347 5001) For further information on Blackwell Science, visit our website: www.blackwel1-science.com Contents List of contributors, vi Forewords, vii Acknowledgements, ix 1 Anatomy, biochemistry and physiology of road cycling, 1 Robert J. Gregor and Francesco Conconi 2 Biomechanics of road cycling,