Eyebrow shaving, beer and helium enemas: A selection of your marginal gains

We asked Cycling Weekly readers what marginal gains they would introduce as a team manager... quite a lot of them would not be approved by the UCI

Drinking through your ear: not a marginal gain

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Shaving off riders' eyebrows, drinking copious amounts of beer and introducing helium enemas to reduce weight were just some of the remarkably innovative suggestions for 'marginal gains' made by Cycling Weekly readers.

For those not familiar with the term, Team Sky introduced the concept of marginal gains into the cycling world - a quantity of very small changes can have a collectively significant overall effect on a rider's performance.

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