Originally Posted by
63rickert
Six watts per kilo would mean putting out close to 600 watts. I can still do that, I think, but I would be winded. Instead it is just relaxing downhill. Once smoothness is achieved it is no more work than coasting and then at bottom of hill you are ready to do something.
The way you are thinking is how people think when they have never learned to spin. Or never even tried.
I’m not suggesting you are necessarily doing the work of pedaling at 200 rpm. On a fixed gear going downhill, the bike will do whatever work you don’t to move feet, pedals and legs at the relevant speed and will extract that from the kinetic energy of you and the bike.
Otto