Originally Posted by
roadwarrior
Read...we don't claim that after EVERY FITTING. We have a BET when a customer doubts the process. They are almost always 100% do it yourselfers. With THOSE PEOPLE, we HAVE A BET, that we can find 10%. We have them ride on a COMPUTER we have in the shop, and from that we can establish a baseline for power. Then the fitting begins. Then we see if we won or lost.
Good God read before posting. It will make it a lot more fun for you and you might actually learn something.
LOL.
I'm satisfied with my reading comprehension, but thank you anyway. You've implied of course that you generalize from your experience of never losing the bet to all the rest of us fools who don't think that highly of your procedure.
I understand computers and their capabilities (30 year professional), so it doesn't particularly impress me to say that you hook them up with one.
So this "baseline power" that your computer establishes, can you be a little more explicit? As stated, it's still essentially meaningless. What your setup measures doesn't necessarily correspond to an increase in FTP, or 5 second power, or any of the other potential benchmarks. There's no way for anyone to evaluate your claims of a perfect record of 10% improvement unless you're a little more specific about what you've improved. If you want to say "I don't know exactly" (probably the best answer), and that it shows an improvement in whatever it is that you measure that's somehow related to power, that's fine. But it won't mean that the rider has more power generally, when riding his bike.
Secondly, is this power number established for the person on their bike, or on analogous stationary equipment?