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11-24-24 | 03:14 AM

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tomato coupe

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Context is important:

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Originally Posted by Kontact

I don't understand the relation to my point. The frame can store potential energy and release it into the road later.

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Originally Posted by tomato coupe

Energy (temporarily) stored in the side deflection of a bottom bracket is not (necessarily) redirected to the drive train in a beneficial way.

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Originally Posted by Kontact

This is no more complicated a concept than the aforementioned pole vaulting. It just isn't as dramatic.

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Originally Posted by Tomato Coupe

Actually, bicycle frames are more complicated. Hand waving arguments that equate the two (very different) systems don't amount to much.