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Old 03-06-19, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ljsense
That could be; trying to figure out how the virtual physics are being applied is a little confusing for me. I was under the impression that it does both -- that is, if you have it at 100 percent, it'll give you more resistance and decrease your speed for a given wattage going up the hills, and boost your speed and decrease resistance going down.

My impression is based on going down, say, a 4 percent grade on the default 50 percent setting. You coast to a stop instead of accelerating. In 100 percent mode, it seems like you keep your speed even without pedaling. But even a 2 percent grade, in real life, would keep you going without pedaling. I'm not sure, I haven't played around with it all that much.
If it did that, it would not give people an incentive to set it at anything other than 0%. Here's a video where it different settings are compared:

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