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Old 15-07-2019, 03:11 PM   #15
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Thanks Luddite. Yes, I’ve read that post previously but it doesn’t really answer my question.
The 0.3% improvement mentioned is solely due to the reduction in mass, a three hundredth of the weight of bike and rider. It completely ignores rotational effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion

It should be possible for me to get my remaining brain cells to quantify the change, I was just hoping someone had already done it!
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