"degree in physical education at the University of Warsaw." Physical has the word physic in it - so it counts. Eddie B Cycling | Biography Actually I'd like to see Eddie's quote.
Anyway someone can tell me what I'm missing as this seems to all be high school physics - that Eddie B likely learned it in Poland.

There are two parts. The acceleration which boils down to which wheel moves farther and while the front does, it does very little. The second part I think makes a very big difference because the cyclist is constantly working against it. I expect Eddie B left that one out.

Distance matters. The wheel that travels farther requires more work. It might be interesting to see how much more the front moves in the turning of the front wheel. I think it is high - but I already did my video.


The second part is the rotational inertia too. And the front wheel experiences more rotational changes than the rear.
The effort required to move a spinning gyroscope - and what you get back is more similar to the front wheel than the rear. It is the front wheel you do this with every time you counter steer to turn, or get back on course. Anyway without going through messy numbers just think of the gyro exercise balls.

If these had real light wheels in them there would be far less effort / work / power used to move them. It is too hard to measure (Welcome to Nimble are the only wheels I know that posted wheel moments) and calculate is the force required to change the rotating moment of inertia of the wheel. (Dave @ Nimble was a math prodigy and graduated college at 16) posts 32 spoke wheels as 143gm^2 and his crosswind at 117gm^2) - they have some nice charts.