Originally Posted by hhnngg1

You dont' need the research. One is weight bearing, one is not. Thus at a leisurely pace, one of them will give you an obviously higher stress load to the muscles than the other. (The target group we're discussing isn't racers, it's recreational easy-riding or easy-running folks.)


You wouldn't fund research like this since it's too inherently obvious due to the weight bearing vs nonweightbearing aspect.