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Old 12-04-08 | 03:34 PM
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Just go to analytic cycling, put in a negative slope, 0 power and see what the speeds are for different weights. Short of that, forget the math. Take two riders at the top of a hill and start them from a stop and coast down. I can say from experience that the fatties drop my skinny ass on descents; they can coast faster than me and if they pedal down I have to work much harder to match them.
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