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Spinning Vs Mashing

  • 01-10-2010 4:09pm
    #1
    Harrybelafonte
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    I used to be alright at pushing larger gears before but started concentrating more on my cadence last year, cycling a single speed and trying to spin more on hills etc. Now a year later I can't really keep any speed up at larger gears on the flat and have to drop back a gear where I can spin again to keep it up. On hills, once my cadence drops I'm finding it difficult to push hard to keep any speed up. Is this some kind of inevitable trade off or can I do some training to sort it out?


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  • #2
    blorg
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    Get a fixed gear and ride it up and down the mountains. That will sort you out on both ends.


  • #3
    thebouldwhacker
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    Are you saying that your over all speed has dropped during a set commute/course?

    I have changed my cadence too and find that I am in higher gears far less but my over all speed has drastically improved. That said I was doing a lot of hill work this year for a cycling hol in Wales....


  • #4
    IM0
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    theres a difference between spinning with power that pro's use [this where it came from afterall- armstrong anyone?] and spinning with alot less power like us mortals. Most seem to back off the power and spin a lighter gear it seems, which is going to reduce the power you can put out v's the cadence you are putting it out at - you want it to be the latter.


  • #5
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    blorg wrote: »
    Get a fixed gear and ride it up and down the mountains. That will sort you out on both ends.

    Lol, I'm still lucky to be getting up the mountains.
    thebouldwhacker wrote: »
    Are you saying that your over all speed has dropped during a set commute/course?

    I have changed my cadence too and find that I am in higher gears far less but my over all speed has drastically improved. That said I was doing a lot of hill work this year for a cycling hol in Wales....

    Speed has increased a good bit and I rarely go beyond second smallest cog.
    me@ucd wrote: »
    theres a difference between spinning with power that pro's use [this where it came from afterall- armstrong anyone?] and spinning with alot less power like us mortals. Most seem to back off the power and spin a lighter gear it seems, which is going to reduce the power you can put out v's the cadence you are putting it out at - you want it to be the latter.

    Ok, that makes me feel a little better. If I can give a real world example, if I'm going a long a decent flat I try and stay as close to 40km as I can, when I find my legs can't spin any faster I go higher and try to put the power down to build that cadence up again, but I just can't do it and I slow and slow, drop a gear and I can spin back up again. This is probably normal enough, but I feel I used to be able to put the power down a lot better before. I've lost about 25kg in the last 2 years and wonder if I've lost some muscle as well which may have affected it. It's very frustrating.


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