Originally Posted by
BoraxKid
Easy: force applied at the pedals times cadence gives you the power output from the rider into the bike. Since OP is new to the sport, this will be an instructive thing to look at, and it's the only factor that OP will have constant control over, aside from perhaps some marginal effects on frontal area presented to the wind. Why are you being so obtuse about this? Perhaps you should lurk more.
I'm being obtuse? How do you magically calculate force with just a cadence sensor?
Folks, I think this
is the Strava power estimator posting as an elaborate prank. The moment our worst timeline's version of Skynet gained self-awareness.
Good thing that instead of terrorizing the human race, it will just go around giving us completely inaccurate power estimates on our rides!