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Old 10-31-19, 11:50 AM
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I'm not talking about if the bike would be appropriate for average sprinters. I'm talking about the sprinters on Teams GB and AUS who are on the tail end of the bell curve when it comes to making torque (not watts) on the bike.

Torque is what flexes (and sometimes breaks) a bike, not average watts.

EDIT:

I did write about watts above and that's misleading. I mention 2,500W because that's the common unit of measure when we discuss strength on the bike. We know what a high watt value is...I couldn't tell you want a high torque value is from memory. The connection I was trying to make is that it takes a significant amount of torque to produce 2,500W instantaneously.

Torque makes things flex. Torque makes things slip. Torque makes things break.

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