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This is a great point about a potential downside of the 'Free Drive' decoupled crank concept. By decoupling you also get rid of the coupled inertia of the bike/
by Dave_Rosenthal 5y ago
This is a great point about a potential downside of the 'Free Drive' decoupled crank concept. By decoupling you also get rid of the coupled inertia of the bike/rider and petaling becomes weirdly inertia free which most people really dislike.
Though I guess with very sophisticated sensing and control algorithms you can in theory emulate inertia. I wonder if they try to do that? Would be a cool project.
- oriolid 5y agoI guess they could adjust the generator somehow, but the response would have to be really immediate. I think I could adjust to something that feels like rubber band instead of chain, but varying speed over pedal stroke sounds bad. Yes, I know that some people swear by elliptic chainrings. I had Biopace rings back in the day and didn't really like them even though the effect was quite small.