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> Can't you still run it downhill and regain energy?

That just means you had stored potential energy, otherwise how are you going to get up the hill?



I'm not sure what you mean? You need to get up the hill to get down the hill, but today when I do that the energy downhill gets wasted through heating of my brakes at the bottom. If I could use that energy for easier time the next hill around that'd be really nice.


On moderate descents a bike reaches equilibrium with the air resistance at a low speed, so there's nothing to recover.




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