When I spin my regular pedals they whir and spin into a blur and at least 20 times before slowing down - eventually slowling down due to the unbalanced weight distribution due to the shape. When I spin my new ultegra pedals I am lucky to get one turn, its almost like they have a handbrake on
Bascially you could say my old axel turns like a spoon stirring tea, and the new axel is more like a big wooden spoon in pancake batter. This extra resistance has to add up to overcome constantly across a few hours right?
So the question is are new pedals with thick grease sucking huge watts through excessive viscosity?
- has anyone looked at this?
- is there any bearing between the finger spin test and actual biking resistance?
- does grease turn molten under the pressure of a pedal stroke? and if so is the grease molten under load but the other 80% of the bearing still viscous at any one time?
- does grease turn more liquid as it heats up from friction of biking? or is this pretty stable? I havent stopped to check if the finger spin is better after riding for some minutes
- or do new pedals need to be broken in to get that friction down initially?
Bascially you could say my old axel turns like a spoon stirring tea, and the new axel is more like a big wooden spoon in pancake batter. This extra resistance has to add up to overcome constantly across a few hours right?
So the question is are new pedals with thick grease sucking huge watts through excessive viscosity?
- has anyone looked at this?
- is there any bearing between the finger spin test and actual biking resistance?
- does grease turn molten under the pressure of a pedal stroke? and if so is the grease molten under load but the other 80% of the bearing still viscous at any one time?
- does grease turn more liquid as it heats up from friction of biking? or is this pretty stable? I havent stopped to check if the finger spin is better after riding for some minutes
- or do new pedals need to be broken in to get that friction down initially?