B_Doughtie wrote:
what watts difference is acceptable to being the "difference"...IE is 5w enough to announce that A is clearly better than B, C and D. Or is it so "close" that it becomes a political term, "too close to call". So I guess I'm asking yes you can name a winner as the "faster" bike, but I'm also wondering, is there a threshold allowance that we can legitly say....these bikes are all very close and thus buy what you want/like/feel comfortable on, etc. Or is 3w difference enough to say, this is clearly the fastest bikeThis is why we have error bars. I agree with Dan.
I think a more interesting question is this: what are consumers willing to spend per watt, or what watts threshold is sufficient to convince them to switch bikes or make their purchase? Would you pay $1000 extra for 10 watts? What about 10 watts with error bars representing say +/- 5 watts?
One of the things I want to do -- and I know this has been done before but not in this way -- is give the watts per dollar context for these frames. My guess is that that watts per dollar context will all over the map.