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No guessing, that surge of power is the result of starting your power stroke around 11 o'c and boosted by the ability to use arm resistance. Because you are using a high gear there should be only insignificant if any acceleration but what you are doing by replacing the dead spot with maximal torque is decreasing the slight deceleration that occurs. What you want is an extended power stroke that can give the greatest possible tangential force to the crank over 180 deg. From 5 to 11 you draw back, unweight and while they are recovering prepare your power muscles for simultaneous changeover of power application when cranks are at the 11/5 o'c positions.
JayKosta said:------backdoor said:...
You can feel that surge of power as your foot goes over the top.
Without data you're only guessing that there is a 'surge of power'.
I'm sure there is a feeling of intense muscle effort, but do you know how much actual power is being produced?
Do you feel the bike doing obvious acceleration each time at TDC? And is that what you really want?
For each rotation of the crank, for each leg do you want to feel sectors where the muscles are working really hard and then relaxing in the other sectors?
Or do you want some other feeling of 'muscle usage'?
Jay Kosta
Endwell NY USA
No guessing, that surge of power is the result of starting your power stroke around 11 o'c and boosted by the ability to use arm resistance. Because you are using a high gear there should be only insignificant if any acceleration but what you are doing by replacing the dead spot with maximal torque is decreasing the slight deceleration that occurs. What you want is an extended power stroke that can give the greatest possible tangential force to the crank over 180 deg. From 5 to 11 you draw back, unweight and while they are recovering prepare your power muscles for simultaneous changeover of power application when cranks are at the 11/5 o'c positions.