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Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by soperj on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:07PM (#27508933)
Honestly, go try biking by only pulling up. You don't pull up.
Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by sliken on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:58AM (#27512183)
Bike more and you will, it's not particularly noticeable while normally biking. But I really notice it on sprints, but it's also noticeable even with smaller increases in effort over cruising.

It's also quite noticeable when you switch to clipless and go for a hard ride, suddenly new muscles will be sore.

Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by fsckboy on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:12PM (#27510566)
Honestly, I pull up. I'm not pulling the pedal up, I'm lifting the leg and pulling my foot up, getting it into postion to push again, same as I would do for running.

you should try it, you can feel the relief in the pushing leg.

Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by soperj on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:59AM (#27511478)
I'll go try it. Why couldn't you do that in flats?
Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by endless1234 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:54AM (#27512780)
You do it with flats too. Clipped in feet just makes it so you don't need to worry about where the foot ends up after that. But it's not a huge difference.
Re:Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:05PM (#27509915)
Just do one-legged drills for a bit. You definitely pull up when doing this. Transfer the same muscle activation to two legged cycling, and you're pulling up then too.