Re: Suspension losses

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 1/13/2025 8:54 AM, zen cycle wrote:

On 1/12/2025 2:25 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/12/2025 7:49 AM, zen cycle wrote:

On 1/11/2025 7:46 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

 
But individual power outputs from left and right legs? I can't
imagine much value from that measurement.

 
You answered your own question. "You" can't imagine it's useful.
There are a great many data geeks who find it quite useful.

 
Maybe we can take a poll? How many here gather and use data on their
individual legs' power output?

 
I hardly consider this forum to be representative of the cycling
community at alrge.

 
I certainly agree with that! This is a group with no members who were
not interested in the title "tech".  So if these people are not
measuring individual leg power, I doubt it's very common.

It’s also barely into double digits and its age range is slewed to the more
mature, I suspect I’m the youngest here but I’m about mid pack for a club
rider ie late 40’s/early 50’s

I’d also note that due to the age range is a tendency for this effect.

Noted by Douglas Adams “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our
reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is
new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order
of things.”

Ie we become less curious as we age in general.

 
Our bike club is mostly social, not very competitive. I do have friends
who use "new" equipment (e.g. aero wheels, 13 cogs, road disc brakes)
and a few who mention their KOM triumphs. Many of them use Garmin or
similar devices. But IIRC none have ever discussed power meter readings.
Maybe some new, younger club members are doing that, but I don't ride
with those folks.
 
Then there's the vast majority of bike riders who will never join a
club, never look at a bike magazine, never try to ride fast, who just
ride for fun. No power meters there.
 

They will not be selling power meters be that crank or pedal on the efforts
of club riders or racers, just wouldn’t be commercially viable!

Roger Merriman