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Old 10-29-18, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by wphamilton
because it's just not that much energy.
Okay, so your point was actually just that the power is too low relative to the heat dissipation ability of the frame to make a noticeable difference.

This is obviously true in the real-world case, although whether it would remain true in a hypothetical case where internal frame friction caused significant power loss depends on what we'd consider "significant." Note that one person you've been agreeing with in this thread - raria - has previously pondered whether flex about the cranks was slowing them down by three miles per hour, and has seemingly even purchased a new crankset in an effort to address the issue.

I agree that, with the frame being metal, there's probably a large range of hypothetical dissipative power loss in the frame which would be considered a meaningful performance loss to many people, while not being significant enough to cause frame heating that would be very apparent to a person.

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