Gonna nitpick here and be pedantic. Regardless of gear ratio, it’s all leg power. Gearing simply allows the rider to go slower, which does allows for a lower required power, but for a longer duration of time. The amount of total energy output is effectively the same.
You could keep converting the chemical energy in a potato into power, and after 2000 potatoes you’d have produced the same power as a Ferrari V8 engine does in an hour, but it doesn’t really have the same roar, does it? Even if you account for flatulence.
Gonna nitpick here and be pedantic. Regardless of gear ratio, it’s all leg power. Gearing simply allows the rider to go slower, which does allows for a lower required power, but for a longer duration of time. The amount of total energy output is effectively the same.
Source: cycling nerd who is obsessed with power.
That’s a bit of an empty comparison, isn’t it?
You could keep converting the chemical energy in a potato into power, and after 2000 potatoes you’d have produced the same power as a Ferrari V8 engine does in an hour, but it doesn’t really have the same roar, does it? Even if you account for flatulence.