Originally Posted by
Darth_Firebolt
So you have two groups of bikes that can be directly compared, is how I see it. Power output in each of those groups isn't identical, but it's close enough that a comparison can be made between them.
Yeah - and I was thinking of comparing them in terms of results per watt.
The results clearly suggest that the old Altamira is the slowest bike - required the most energy to record one of the slowest times. On the other hand, the SL, while it recorded one of the slower times, achieved essentially the same time as the Tarmac, but with far less energy.
Meanwhile, since it's a loop, I think the effects of wind would be self-cancelling. The traffic variable, however, is hard to control for, and its effects on results -
on a per-watt basis - are unclear.