Originally Posted by
Broctoon
I'm with tempocyclist. The lone TT rider will have a significant aero advantage over a lone rider on a road bike. But with eight pros who know how to rotate through a line and stay on each other's wheel, that advantage would be easily negated. The team would simply wear the lone wolf down in the first few miles, by letting one guy at a time push hard while the others recover and enjoy the aero advantage of drafting. TT guy is more aero than whoever is on the front of the line, but he's gotta be max effort all the time.
yeah assuming equal fitness and a smooth paceline it wouldn't even be close. heck, the racers could probably ride old steel bikes and beat the TT guy, drafting is too powerful