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Originally Posted by colnago62
I believe the reason cadence is different on climbs and flats given the same power output is the effect gravity has in those two scenarios. The higher the effect of gravity, the less forward momentum.
In a way. Formally, it's known as crank inertial load: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11784546/
But yeah, it's about gravity.
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