Improving Pedaling Technique by Reducing Weight on the Handlebars
From FASTER Cycling by FLO Cycling
October 1, 2025 · 53 min
About this episode
This episode discusses how reducing weight on the handlebars can improve cycling performance by engaging the hips more effectively.
If you knew that engaging your hip more when you cycled that you’d get a 10% performance bump, would you be interested? How would you plan to do this? Today, on FASTER we speak with Jim Martin about how simply removing weight from the handlebars will automatically improve your cycling. Listen to this episode to learn more about how to remove weight from the handlebars so you can become faster.
People in this episode
Host: FLO Cycling
Guest: Jim Martin
Topics covered
- pedaling technique
- cycling performance
- weight reduction
- hip engagement
- handlebar adjustments
Keywords
- cycling
- performance improvement
- pedaling technique
- handlebars
- weight reduction
- hip engagement
- FASTER Cycling
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FASTER, FLO Cycling
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