Originally Posted by
elcruxio
The article did mention the 105% isn't important, but I didn't see any meaningful info why that may be. Just a claim by some random person. Whereas I believe Zipp did quite a bit of research back in the day to arrive to the 105 number.
In fairness, JP Ballard is not just some random guy. I don’t know what he actually claimed regarding the “105% rule”, but aero rules of thumb like this are rarely universal. I guess you would have to listen to the quoted podcast to understand more.