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Why would it skew it though? you are just riding a bunch of 1 min intervals are you not, where you need to hold an average power until you fail an interval? I haven't done a ramp test for years, all I remember is it was really easy and then really intense for a few minutes at the end and it gave me a massively high FTP estimate.
tldr @ghostface I hadn't seen that but yes, I agree with Jesse. This idea that you can cheat the shorter tests by sprinting at the end....ok, but if you want an accurate test, just...don't sprint at the end.
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Ramp test based ftp tests are designed to work with seated efforts only - standing skews them.
For training efforts, do what you want though.
I normally only stand for <30s efforts or perhaps for a few pedal strokes on long 10min+ efforts