Originally Posted by Fredo76

I think the internet has made people stupid. At low rpms, I'd estimate that I got a quarter of my torque from pulling up on the pedals, back in the toe-clips and straps days. Too bad nobody measured me back then. Now, it's too late. Studies of spinners and spinning, even if preformed using 'pros', are irrelevant and inconclusive with regard to low-rpm power.

If a successful track sprinter from the 60's or '70s, maybe one who used doubled 'Binda binders', comes on BF and says he never pulled up on the pedals, I will tell him 'you can't **** a ****ter' (my redactions), and buy him a beer.