Originally Posted by
Pedaleur
In your example (small accelerations with each pedal stroke), the frequency of deceleration is the same as the frequency of acceleration.
The flywheel analogy is fine.
Perhaps, but the bike is accelerating, which is the important, not the coasting.
A bicycle wheel is not a flywheel by any definition; it is not designed as such, does not maintain uniform speed, and is isolated, except in the case of a fixie, from performing as such, by the freewheel. I can go to any dictionary and pull the definition of 'flywheel' and it does not describe a bicycle wheel.