Improving Road Bike Cycling Efficiency

By improving your cycling efficiency (or cycling "economy" as some prefer to call it), we're referring to improving your body's energy efficiency -- or, said another way, your economy of motion. Cycling economy is one of the most im­portant determinant of one's cycling performance. Your cycling economy is your MPG (or kilometers per liter). Oxygen is the energy source -- hence you want to get farther down the road with each molecule of oxygen you take in. There are a several ways to improve cycling economy. Here are some of them:

• improving technique and form
• high-volume training at low intensity
• strength training
• speed intervals
• decreasing aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance
• reducing weight
• improving comfort