GreenPlease wrote:
I agree and disagree with you at the same time. You bring up valid points but if you look at the white paper Specialized did on their Roubaix (with the “future shock”) compliance is worth, at most, 2watts... and that’s on cobbles. So there’s a bit of a “ceiling” on what compliance can do to make you faster on the road.I'm not sure what you mean. My post wasn't addressing the amount of power saved by compliance.
As far as that goes, though, your 2W figure is definitely not generalizable to everything. Suspension effects in tires have been measured as having far greater impact than 2W even on asphalt road (look at post 4b in the Silca series I referenced in my previous post). Edit:
https://silca.cc/...stance-and-impedance