Cycling Training: Riding Inside versus Outside, Part 8

Here’s the next part of the riding inside versus outside series.  The series started here.

Inside: Your weight doesn’t matter very much.  Your only point of resistance is the back wheel.

Outside: Weight matters a lot.  Every extra pound is another pound you have to haul 20 miles.  Outside you have your weight over your front and back wheel – and they both make friction with the road.  Which, unfortunately, makes it much harder to pedal.

Now to Part 9.