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Sep 11, 2014 at 15:02

Sep 11, 2014

Top Three Finds - Interbike 2014

Of the various articles I perused thanks to your link, none of them appear to use a large enough sample size to actually determine if their results are statistically significant or not. Also: "The slight tendency towards improvement in power output when using the oval Q-rings (increase of 2.5–6.5 % relative to circular chainrings) suggests that Q-rings could result in slight improvement during on-road cycling performance." If they had a large enough sample and they generated this gain, then for pros/racers, this is big. I took a speed and agility PE class in college with a guy that had worked with the Dallas Cowboys, NBA teams and pro tennis players and he claimed that top sprinters train to increase leg lift by a little as 1%. So 2.5-6.5% would be a big gain for a racer. Food for thought.