>>1217083No, proper seating position, and leaning foward instead of riding the most upright position possible. Aerodinamics are really important in cycling, just a position change makes you more efficient, but you will need to get some training for your body.
Shaving for aero gains is a meme, they do it because it's ´´higienic´´ when you have to receive lotion-massage, but in reality its not more higienic, it's just less gross.
>>1217099If you want to go fast you need clipless because that's what you need when you want to have a really high cadence and don't want to fuck up with a foot slip, aslo clipless is good for training your knees to adopt a proper position while riding. For low cadence and casual riding, yes, platform pedals are good enough, but he can always get some of those hybrid platform/clipless pedals or just making a DIY ghetto platform for clipless when he doesn't want to race.
