"*if you’re a keen cyclist <https://www.designboom.com/tag/bike-design/>, you probably know the difficulty of the so-called ‘dead zone’ when pedaling."*
So, yet another iteration of the "I don't feel like I'm getting the same amount of power at every degree in the rotation" fetish. Has everybody exhausted their pile of discarded Biopace etc. chainrings already? It's hard to make the argument that the "dead zone" is a problem, when your advertising test dummy's feet aren't actually attached to the pedals. Wouldn't slippage on the pedals account for more power variation than a theoretical "dead zone"? In my mind, it certainly calls the designer's quasi-scientific assertions into question. And does the improvement, whatever it is, outweigh the liabilities of additional weight and the extra set of single-manufacturer components to wear out? This reeks of a non-cyclist engineer trying to fix a non-problem for the benefit of his own ego/profit. If you're actually a "keen cyclist", you've long since adjusted your pedaling style to accommodate any sense of a "dead zone" you may happen to feel. Why wouldn't you? It's not as if every bicycle you've ever pedaled doesn't pedal the same way. Peter "surprised to discover how mad this seems to make me" Adler pedaling normal cranks on normal bikes in normal ways, just like everybody else in Berkeley, CA/USA On Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 11:06:07 AM UTC-7 Doug H. wrote: > > https://www.designboom.com/technology/cerdan-crankset-increases-pedaling-power-06-30-2021/ > See above link: > > I find this design fascinating so thought I'd share it with the Group. > This isn't electronic shifting or carbon but good ole mechanical and metal. > Could this innovation become accepted in the mainstream cycling world? > Doug > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/81677acc-3c8e-43f2-88ec-cb307f96adb5n%40googlegroups.com.
