Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
Reading another thread about tires and there was talk about rolling resistance. Got me thinking about it and has it been quantified over a real world course in terms of speed on a fixed course, time passed in a fixed distance, or distance traveled in time allotted?
For example if tire A has rolling resistance of 1.2 and tire B has rolling resistance of 1.5 (being of greater resistance) how does that translate to real world use as described above?
Checkout bikecalculator.com. You can enter specifics for a given ride and it will display a very accurate estimate of power and speed. Change the power estimate and it will recalculate speed over the ride distance. It’s quite interesting. It’s cool to enter Strava segment details and find out how much difference a few extra watts will make. Or how little difference.
