In my 30 years of watching races
BB is to most horses
what a geared bike is to a fixed gear bike.
When you ride geared, the gears do a good deal of the work for you; you can stop and start and coast with relative ease. Riding fixed gear, YOU do all the work, and stopping and starting takes a significant amount of energy; and you can't coast.
All the other stuff is irrelevant or banal.
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