Originally Posted by
Bacciagalupe
Here's one example of how the steady-state data is relevant to your claim. In post
#231 , you're looking at a graph of riders who were instructed to intentionally pull up on the pedals. In doing so, they did reduce the negative forces on the upstroke, but
still did not go into positive territory.
That data you showed is an average of a number of riders. Below is the individual data from Coyle's study clearly showing that some elite cyclists pull up and obtain power during steady state cycling. This was for their preferred pedaling style with no instruction to 'pull up'. Unfortunately, there isn't enough data around to settle this argument definitively.
