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Old 10-10-10 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
It would be interesting to know who you are referring to.

Now, tell me how you pull up on a platform pedal folks. If you can't pull up on the pedal, you can't truly spin.
HAHAHAHAHAH more old wives tales. Once you exceed more then 75 rpms or so you can't pull up to be effective in power production, the most you can hope for is to dead weight the pedal. This wives tale has circulated for years and years. It's purely a psychosomatic effect.

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