Very slow climbing time for my W/kg. Is it because of my heavy bike?

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Solved by @MI-XC! :point_up: :rofl:

OP is not alone. I experienced something similar to this on a flat segment a couple of months ago. Other rider who I passed (I looked him up on Fly-bys) had lower power for higher speed, but was fully decked out with TT gear; yes I was using clip-on aero bars & have the stem slammed but I’m on the endurance-oriented Orbea Avant H30-D from 2022, with Bontrager all-weather tyres on stock wheels & fairly standard sort of cycle kit. Similarly a triathlete friend who’s bigger than me said his setup (Tri bike, rear disc wheel, front ~60mm) gave him 47kph around a track at 315w. At that power I’m barely cracking 40kph, despite being smaller. Massive difference. It gives me a ballpark figure on the payback for optimisations.

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do you have a dual or single sided PM? some people always pedal with a perfect 50/50 L/R balance, but it’s pretty normal to see 47/53. If you are like that and measure the 53% side, this will be doubled to get to the power of a full circle. So it -might- be that the value for a single sided PM is off by 6% (or more, or even the other way around… :slight_smile: ).
But in this example of 284 watt, -if- this was measured with a single sided PM with a 47/53 balance, the actual power would be 17 watts lower (267).

or it’s just the tires :slight_smile:

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