• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yes fuel economy. Energy expended per distance traveled or power needed to maintain a given speed. Just the fuel in this case is burned by your own body.

    At world class levels, a few watts here and there will make a big difference by the end of a race.

    • Arcka@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      Aah, gotcha. I had thought that

      Probably less these days

      was in reference to this part at the end of the parent comment:

      cars generally float around the 32 psi area

      and I haven’t seen anything to contradict all the previous literature on under-inflated automobile tires being worse for fuel economy.