This is a documented misconception in a physics education paper I wrote as a grad student in 1980. Not to say that the inventor believes that a longer bent crank arm provides more torque, but many potential customers who don't understand the physics might just buy this idea.
http://bill.barowy.net/w/AbstractReasoning.pdf
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This is a documented misconception in a physics education paper I wrote as a grad student in 1980. Not to say that the inventor believes that a longer bent crank arm provides more torque, but many potential customers who don't understand the physics might just buy this idea. http://bill.barowy.net/w/AbstractReasoning.pdf