Originally Posted by
e-RICHIE
How can the conversation about energy storage in a frame stand apart from what happens when wheels and other drive train components are attached atmo? How can a human being isolate the sensations and say the material allows X to happen when so many ingredients make up the whole?
You can't. It's a very complicated system. And accurately analyzing it would mean accounting for the asymmetry of the bike, as in the different stiffness with pedal inputs left and right (left includes torsional stiffness of the BB) and asymmetrical lateral stiffness of the rear wheel.
Trod Harland, Pickle Expediter
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