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With the assumption that no changes occur in the cycle ergometer, it may be speculated that lower limb joint angles change. Eight males were tested on a cycle ergometer under four measurement conditions (static, unloaded, loaded non-fatigued, loaded fatigued), at five different crank arm lengths, for the minimum and maximum joint angles of the hip, knee, and ankle. DB MANOVA's and post-hoc tests revealed significant differences (p {dollar}<{dollar} 0.05) for joint angle values of the hip, knee, and ankle. It was concluded that changes in pedalling rate can result in changes in lower limb joint angle kinematics.","abstract_html":"The effect of measurement technique, and load and fatigue, with changes in crank arm length, on lower limb kinematics in cycle ergometry; Pedal forces in a cycling task can be defined by joint moment cost functions which describe the optimal relationship between pedalling rate and bicycle-rider geometry for any given power level. In a task where power level changes, variations in pedalling rate may result in different optimum values contributing to bicycle-rider geometry. With the assumption that no changes occur in the cycle ergometer, it may be speculated that lower limb joint angles change. Eight males were tested on a cycle ergometer under four measurement conditions (static, unloaded, loaded non-fatigued, loaded fatigued), at five different crank arm lengths, for the minimum and maximum joint angles of the hip, knee, and ankle. DB MANOVA&#x27;s and post-hoc tests revealed significant differences (p {dollar}&lt;{dollar} 0.05) for joint angle values of the hip, knee, and ankle. 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