Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
I probably wouldn't notice Powercranks, I'm already there. Way back when, there was that rider who did extensive Powercrank testing and found they didn't do anything. His article was used by Powercrank opponents to poo-poo them. I don't think anyone noticed that the reason they didn't help this rider was because he had already been pedaling as though he were using them for a long time. So there's that. On long rides, I work hard at pedaling with a force just below the pain threshold. The way to do that is to never contract any one muscle all that much, yet still get up the road at 18. So reducing peak pedal force is a big deal. I've been working on that for a long time.
You definitely notice powercranks. Using the computrainer scantron things, I always had a very good pedal stroke, but I couldn't use them more than 3 minutes consecutively the first couple of rides.
They are "poo-pooed" because the claims made for them are absolutely ludicrous, and at the end of the day the only thing they make you better at are riding powercranks. They're just an absolute gimmick and completely pointless. Only good thing about them was that I was able to sell mine for $!50 more than I bought them!
But as with everything, what's old is now new.
https://bikerumor.com/2021/02/15/spo...independently/