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Wow. Can't leverage gear ratios either with a unicycle, so that's all leg power.
Gonna nitpick here and be pedantic. Regardless of gear ratio, it’s all leg power. Gearing simply allows the rider to go slower, which does allows for a lower required power, but for a longer duration of time. The amount of total energy output is effectively the same.
Source: cycling nerd who is obsessed with power.
That's a bit of an empty comparison, isn't it?
You could keep converting the chemical energy in a potato into power, and after 2000 potatoes you'd have produced the same power as a Ferrari V8 engine does in an hour, but it doesn't really have the same roar, does it? Even if you account for flatulence.