|   Should mountain bikers spin fast cadence as roadies? | pg_PL
Jan 11, 2003 2:22 PM | | That's a question to Alison Dunlap from February Bicycling.
Her answer:
On long nontechnical climbs, spinning is better. I usually pedal around 90rpm on climbs. On flats like when riding in a time trial, I prefer cadence of 60-70 rpm. On more technical sections, ride bigger gears at 50-60 rpm - you won't bounce as much.
Do you agree?
I actually came to the same conclusion in previous season. I was trying to go 90 rpm cadence everywhere, but then I learned that when there are many stones it's better to shift down. However on flats I would still spin at about 80-85 rpm.
greetings
Przemek |
| re: Should mountain bikers spin fast cadence as roadies? | Radar MCM #35
Jan 11, 2003 7:18 PM | | I have to agree with Alison. Actually I rarely go to those extremes in terms of low rpm, but I often do need to lower the rpms to get through technical stuff. However, I still work alot on high cadences and efficiency because this is where the most time is made up, on the high cadence sections...ie long nontech climbs like Alison said, or flats where I can get down and TT at 100+ rpm. On low traction climbs I lower the cadence too so more weight stays on the saddle. Hope I'm making sense...it's pretty much an induvidual thing. Just today I was doing some tests on the trainer to test my efficiency @ different cadences.
Radar MCM #35 |
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