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Phil Gaimon goes uphill faster than some WorldTour pros. In fairness, he was a WorldTour pro last season with Cannondale, and now that he's targeting Strava KOM records for his YouTube show, he is doing the intensity training without the huge endurance miles he did as a professional.
Gaimon rides a unique machine for his Strava KOM attempts too, with chopped handlebars and a rear brake caliper that he removes for certain climbs.
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Why Strava KOMs?
Phil Gaimon has 47 pages of Strava KOM records. With 20 entries per page, that is nearly 1,000 records. For contrast, world and Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet has 14 pages of KOMs.
But why would a guy who used to race for a living bother with Strava records?
"Last fall, I was still under contract with the team and was just kinda bored," Gaimon said. "There was a guy who had a [doping] history in LA, and conveniently all his KOMs were like four miles from my house. I started taking his records and my friends loved it. I was sort of just responding to what people were responding to."
Enormous power output
The frankenbike
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