Originally Posted by
Walter S
Sort of. It takes mental discipline to back off and carefully set your effort. But it's of course never less work to pedal as hard as possible. That makes no sense. As hard as possible is well, as hard as possible! Nothing is more work than that except maybe harder than possible
Also, people make more work for themselves than necessary with impatience. That's true both for compulsively-hard pedaling as well as for driving and all the work the comes with maintaining that habit. Luckily with impatient transportation-biking, you get exercise/cardio-workout in the process.