{"id":239666,"date":"2025-11-02T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:44:08","slug":"would-pogacar-still-win-with-a-bike-from-10-years-ago-geraint-thomas-and-luke-rowe-discuss-cyclings-technological-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239666\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Pogacar still win with a bike from 10 years ago? \u2014 Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe discuss cycling\u2019s technological evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the podcast Watts Occurring, former teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/geraint-thomas\" title=\"Geraint Thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geraint Thomas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/luke-rowe\" title=\"Luke Rowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Rowe<\/a> talked about the impact of technological progress in professional cycling and whether a rider like <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> could still dominate using equipment from a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas began the conversation with a question that sparked the debate: \u201cHow much difference do modern bikes make? Could Pogi win on an old bike?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe was quick to highlight how much cycling technology has evolved in recent years. \u201cThere is a huge difference though, even what you won the Tour on versus what Pogi won the Tour on. The advance that bikes have made in the past five-eight years is huge. Pogi would not win on a bike from ten years ago, even five years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, however, suggested that Pogacar&#8217;s advantage over the rest of the peloton is big enough to think it would be possible for someone like him to still win despite using older bikes. \u201cHe\u2019s got that much of a buffer these days tho. It&#8217;d make it a more level playing field,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe didn&#8217;t agree, arguing that endurance would eventually play a role. \u201cJust the accumulation through 21 days would be enough to crack him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas then added that under those conditions, Pogacar would not beat his main rival. \u201cNo yeah I don&#8217;t think he would win the Tour against Jonas if he had an old kit like that,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe wrapped up the exchange by reinforcing his point. \u201cThe more you think about it, there is no chance. Technology has advanced too much,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest episode of the podcast Watts Occurring, former teammates Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe talked about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}