Originally Posted by
asgelle
Just because you can’t think of how to do it, doesn’t mean others can’t. You might want to take a look at the Willett article I cited above and the Martin model of cycling kinematics,
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/dl_...0d77868437.pdf The analysis is straightforward and fairly easy.
Not planning on choking that paper down, to get back to the original question. If the total system weight is the same and one riders wheels are say 500 grams lighter how much faster would he/she/they be up the Alpe?