Adopting aerodynamic equipment and positions in cycling in the 1980s increased speed by reducing drag, even if it compromised pure power output.

“remember this happened in cycling in the 80s where prior to that nobody was paying attention to bike position and then Franchesco Moser comes along in 1984 smashes the one-hour record with all this crazy Arrow equipment and then of course you got into Borman and all these guys getting into more and more crazy Arrow positions where their actual power went down relative to what they could have been in a in a less kinked position but of course their speed went up because the the you know the CDA goes down”