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It’s rather silly by carroll2005
With the caveat that Colleen Quigley is an absolute beast...
Peloton bikes don’t measure power. They estimate it. And the reported tolerance/quality control of a new bikes calibration is 10-20% error range.
So two bikes could by random chance be 40% off.
What that means practically is that my bike could be showing a resistance of 50 and feel half as hard as your bikes 50.
Makes it hard to have any objective “race”. There is a lot of speculation that Rory in particular (5’9” 160) has a “juiced” bike.