Faster Cyclists Are More Handsome

Shirtless for aerodynamics' sake, of course. Credit: Kiselev Andrey Valerevich / Shutterstock We all know the more attractive among us get all the breaks, but science has just shown one more benefit to being really, really, ridiculously good looking: riding a bike faster. No, really. A paper in today’s Biology Letters shows statistically that attractiveness correlated positively with performance among cyclists who completed the 2012 Tour de France, especially among women not using hormonal birth control. And you thought science was boring.