Originally Posted by
Vicegrip
Lots of good advice from people sandwiched between your (OP) excuses and useless sidetracks. Got the power meter and the book? Get riding, eating and sleeping per formula and build your motor. Road riding, with the far better controlled variables is a better and far simpler format to build and measure power which is what you asked about. Road power translates to MTB just fine. No magic to it. Merlin- spent the time and gave you good answers.
It sounds to me like he's looking for a shortcut without any type of commitment (doesn't exist!
). Not sure what the end goal here is anyway, but I agree that lots of good advice is being ignored.