Originally Posted by
AzTallRider
Bob, are you thinking that everyone would try to maintain the same power, or that an individual would use the PM to make sure they keep the effort consistent? There is certainly value to the latter, though cadence works pretty well also: maintaining it when you take over the pull.
Yeah, the latter, as an aid towards maintaining uniform effort, especially over varying terrain.
Cadence is a good trick for not surging when you take over the lead (digression: Bob Doppolino has a wonderful aphorism: "You don't
take the lead, you
inherit it.") but cadence doesn't really help a group maintain uniform effort if they're going up or down rollers...unless they're all also doing some Vulcan mind-meld trick and are shifting exactly the same too.