If it means anything then optimum (or optimal!) has to be optimum for something, and at some point that thing has to made explicit. But it doesn't have to be "use of power", it could be low drag, or comfort, or avoiding a specific pain, or how long you can keep riding, or enjoying that view. : - )mattsccm wrote: ↑17 Jul 2021, 11:14am Just thinking about this whilst having a post grass mowing ice cream.
Surely optimum is optimum? Personal opinion has no involvement. Optimum must mean the most efficient position for maximum use of power.
Of course most of us, including me, screw that by incorperating so many personal requirements be they compensating for a knackered back or the desire to look at the view or wear sandles. We all chose sub optimum in some things I bet.
And most often it will be a compromise between many outcomes. And a compromise between the different compromises needed on different rides.
Understanding how adjusting the bike affects as many as those outcomes as possible will save time in finding that compromise.
Jonathan