I do agree. There are a million things that consume energy on a bike. My biggest power robbing factor by far is too much weight on the seat post. People ride bikes with fat balloon tires and springs have extra losses. This is a great idea really and for 99% of the people riding bikes its not robbing them of anything in terms of riding because if the device adds say 4% to the effort required and they drop down one gear and say gain 6%ease of riding the bike. The result is they don’t notice and what they really lost was a bit of time in their journey. So the ride from home to work or school takes 31 minutes instead of 30 minutes or something like that. Going for an ice cream cone who would notice? Now if I was riding across the state and had knowledge of this and was putting in 10 hours on the bike thinking aboute every ounce of weight that was rolling along with me and what I could leave behind and those kind of thoughts. Maybe I haven’t switched gears in the last hour, I might start thinking 5% would mean this or that.
Last edited by bud16415; 02-03-15 at 04:39 PM.