My cyclist's intuition says that leg clipping allows you to extort greater force on a down stroke. Without clipping the force is limited by your body weight, wi

My cyclist's intuition says that leg clipping allows you to extort greater force on a down stroke. Without clipping the force is limited by your body weight, with it the only limit is your muscles. Thinking about it your hands and a back leg allow you to apply a lot of downward force to your body and your lead leg can add all this force to a stroke. It doesn't matter that your hands or back leg individually are not so strong when pulling, because their efforts are combined. In situations when you need not to extend as much force as you can, probably clips do not add much, though I do not know. I tried at some point to ride a bicycle without clips and nearly failed. My back leg tries to pull and leave a pedal. > https://bythlon-pedal.myshopify.com/pages/the-myth-of-the-upstroke-2 https://bythlon-pedal.myshopify.com/pages/the-myth-of-the-up... They are saying that with high rpm cyclists do not pull. I can believe that, high rpm is beneficial exactly because you need to apply a relatively small force.