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Information Junky
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
Posts: 73,167
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I disagree with PoP. The biggest power-drain is drag, not weight.
Even if the course took the riders up a (net) climb, the energy stored would likely lift the weight of the mechanism far beyond the climb of the course.
The big thing, however, is in the ability of a ride to break-away such that the next guy can't just draft.
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