ohgizmo.com — What the hell does that mean? If you give two hoots about biking, you should check this out. It's a special system that ensures the two pedals are never 180 degrees to each other, eliminating that "dead spot" at the top of every stroke. Move over Lance Armstrong!
Apr 3, 2006 View in Crawl 4
fishyjoeApr 3, 2006
Bio-pace worked the opposite, it made the dead spot harder. Similar in principle to the cranks, elliptical chainrings have been showing up on a number of pro bikes. The most notable being Bobby Julich.
loudogApr 3, 2006
How very extremely old school been there done that a million different ways.......Humans pedal in squares, not circles....there will ALWAYS be a dead spot no matter what. Even with offset cranks, geared BB or an elliptical chain ring, there will always be a sacrifice....The offset or elliptical ring will throw off cadence. The rider ends up working harder to maintain a smooth cadence instead of just pushing ahead....it's not efficient and very impractical.
mtfbwyApr 3, 2006
Yeah, until you ended up splattered all over the pavement. I'll stick to human-powered cycling.
3liteApr 4, 2006
actually, we europeans don't switch the decimal and comma. you do.get my point? who's weird now?cheerz
zoxedApr 4, 2006
> Move over Lance Armstrong!Well, at least he will not be in the Tour de France this year:<a class="user" href="http://harriscyclery.net/page.cfm?pageId=1666&contentType=1">http://harriscyclery.net/page.cfm?pageId=1666&contentType=1</a>
cliplessApr 4, 2006
Why not just take it one step further and invest in some totaly independent Power Cranks?<a class="user" href="http://www.powercranks.com/">http://www.powercranks.com/</a>I had the chance to try them (PC's) at a demo boot at a triathlon last year. They take some getting used to, and they uncover any flaws in your pedaling stroke. After about five minutes my legs were burning. I don't think anyone would ever use them in a real race, but as a training aid I've heard they work wonders. Still don't think I'd drop the cash on them though.