Can Smiling Make You Faster or the Ride Easier?

[slowmotion]

Smiling makes you go slower, at least in Pollensa, Majorca, a month ago. A grimmer, angrier bunch of team kit wannabes could not be found on the entire planet.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

If you're smiling you ain't trying hard enough. Man up, feel the pain and grimace.

 

[snorri]

If you're smiling you ain't trying hard enough. Man up, feel the pain and grimace.

Tip for Today..................If you're feeling pain you're doing something wrong.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Smiling makes you slower.

It's the additional weight of all the flies caught between your teeth.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Tip for Today..................If you're feeling pain you're doing something wrong.

Hello, the hipsters are here.

 

[Globalti]

Tommy Voekler did alright smiling up hills.

 

[ColinJ]

Tommy Voekler did alright smiling up hills.

Not so much smiling as gurning or gritting his teeth or sticking his tongue out!

 

[bpsmith]

Tommy Voekler did alright smiling up hills.

As did Simon Yates at the Giro. Until the final few days at least.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Merckx never smiled.

 

[bpsmith]

Merckx never smiled.

Just think how fast he could’ve been!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Just think how fast he could’ve been!

He'd have been slower. Smiling is not aerodynamic.

 

[Gravity Aided]

https://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentr...hy-smiling-improves-your-bike-handling-skills

Improves bike handling as well, relieves tension,ostensibly.

And running
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/health/smile-running-energy-partner/index.html

 

[bpsmith]

He'd have been slower. Smiling is not aerodynamic.

It wasn’t a case of him going faster, but more of him making everyone go slower by being so brutally over empowering.