styrrell wrote:
Thanks, That exactly illustrates my point. His analysis strictly looks at how much average power is lost ridinbg at a stady state in a crit. It ignores the fact that a crit is all about holding the wheel in front of you and acceleration out of corners. Lesson learned, if you want to minimize the effect of something leave out the major factors when doing a computer analysis.
Styrrell
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The crit model was based on the variations in speed taken from an actual P1/2 criterium power file? There's nothing "steady state" about the analysis, so it certainly does take into account accelerating out of corners; as far as "holding the wheel in front of you", well, if your claim is that a lighter wheel helps with that, then I'm pretty much beyond words.
Lesson learned, ignore the content of an analysis if it's results don't fit with your own narrative....