Pedal Cadance
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Posts: 8 (08/04/09 22:53:25) |
Whats your Pedal Cadence? (Result) |
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Posts: 1443 (08/05/09 09:41:27) |
As I was riding with a couple of stout riders Saturday, I paid a bit of attention to cadance, and I am quite comfortable at 110-120. I don't know how fast
Mark was spinning, but he looked like a pogo stick attached to an egg beater. hahahahahahahahaha
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rzexpedition |
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Posts: 1243 (08/07/09 23:39:49) |
Wow...so you ride a century with a average cadence of 110 rpm? Amazing.
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Posts: 1451 (08/08/09 02:26:43) |
Gee, where did I say that? Or where does this thread suggest it is about average cadence and riding a century? What's your average cadence when riding a
century?
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Posts: 1246 (08/08/09 18:45:06) |
Well, if you don't mean average cadence, what is the meaning of the question? The reason I ask that is because I can easily run a high cadence on some road
conditions (easily on road with slight hilldown slope), but I never finish any ride of any significant distance with a cadence much higher than 70 or so. I can
finish a century ride with roughly the same cadence I finish a 30 mile with.
So, when you ask what is your pedal cadence, can you really mean any other other than average cadence? |
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devious56 |
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Posts: 1456 (08/09/09 02:03:35) |
Well, since Catnround started the poll, he's the only one that can really answer your question RZ, but the way it asks, it leave what cadence up in the
air, could be max., could be average, could be normal. How to answer, a lot of folks don't have a computer that tells them their cadence, how are they to
know? My average cadence is like yours, sort of, but then, your average is going to depend what your route is like. Sort of like average speed. How many
stops do you make, how many hills do you go up or down? But, I do tend to finish a ride very similar to how I started, and I will say, I tend to be a bit
lazier on my trike than I am on my bike.
Gee, lighten up a little. David |
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rzexpedition |
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Posts: 1247 (08/09/09 03:59:04) |
David,
I am light, man. I think "typed words" are getting in the way, here. If the OP asks what is my cadence, then I'd have to say anywhere from 0 to 100...I seldom see higher than 100 on the trike. But if you look at the range of responses, then I'd have to say he's looking for an average. And for those who don't know, they can't rightly participate. I use a Garmin 305 and store my cadence for every ride, so I know my average cadence, max, and 1-mile average. And all of those factors you mention plus some others (like weight, leg size, etc.) do play a part. Speaking of lazier on the trike...I recently started riding a two-wheeler again after doing about 3500+ trike miles. I found I was a bit iffy on the bike, though. I wasn't willing to go as fast on the flats and downhill....mainly because I ride at night a lot and didn't want to risk crashing out due to the front wheel hitting a pot hole...but...when it comes to going up hill, I found that in order to stay upright and not wobble all over the road (this is a LWB bent), I had to go about 5 to 6 mph min...so, after being forced to do that and then taking the flats and downhills slower than on the trike, my average speed over the exact same route was about 1 mph higher than on the trike! Argh!!!! I had become a lazy trike rider and didn't even realize it. Looking at the weight of the LWB and the trike, there really is no reason I should be going slower on the trike. So, I decided it was time to break out of that mold...thus I now attack the hills...and if they are longer then I make sure I go no slower than I'd be going on LWB...after doing this, and then going like I like to go on the flats and the downhills (which is as fast as I can muster -- which ain't really fast), my average speed at the end of the ride shot up! On good roads, I'm not convince that the trike would be slower than the bike. Trikes do scrub in turns and on rough roads one is going to fight the friction of the third wheel and the three tracks (which sends vibrations from each wheel through the trike), so those factors could impact speed. But I think the trike is actually more aero than the bike due mainly to the riding position. But if one takes hills in a lazy fashion, then one is going to be slower on the trike...I think the fact that you can go slow up hills without falling tends to make us ride hills slower...if we don't make an effort not to do so. What's your take on that? |
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Posts: 1458 (08/09/09 10:50:50) |
RZ, you are absolutely right, thanks for putting things in perspective. I too, use a 305, and pay particular attention to my cadence as it has a lot to do
with my heart rate, and what I have left in the tank at the end of a ride. Especially since I've started doing time trials. My cadence has a lot to do
with what type of ride I'm doing, a recreactional ride I tend to be lazy and pedal slower just crusing along. If it is a training ride where performance
is the priority, then I am spinning at a good rate. I find that I spin more on my road bike, than I do my trike, and don't know if it has anything to do
with having my legs stuck out in front of me or not, or, if it is the more relaxed environment of my trike.
But, I know, there is no way that I can extract the same performance from my trike that I get with the df, over an extended period of time, I just don't have the leg for it. Now, to be honest, if I had more folks to ride with, like we had last week, that might change. I have no one to go riding with at 20 mph for 20 or 30 miles, the guys close to me are very happy at 14 / 15. I know, that when I ride with the shop group on my df we spend a lot of time between 22 to 25 mph, with stints to 30, but after a couple of stop lights, and a neighborhood or two, we usually average 19 mph for a 20 or 30 mile ride. I tend to compare my trike to a mountain bike, or tandem, as far as performance goes. I like your take on hills, and feel that everyone has to go up a hill at their own pace. You can't ride with a friend, it's just better to agree to meet up at the top. And on my trike, I don't have to worry about falling over because I'm going too slow. The first time I every rode Mt. Sugarloaf here in Florida ( a beginning rider that knew nothing about hills) I got about 1/3 of the way up this hill, and my legs said, "Look, you have a choice. You can either get off and walk, or fall off, but we can't do any more." Mind you, this was around the 2, 2 1/2 mph mark. I wasn't very happy about that, but I wasn't the only one walking up that hill. |
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Posts: 12 (08/13/09 00:21:15) |
I was just looking for what the average cadence I didn't say anything about distance I'm in the high 80s on longer rides 30 miles plus rolling terrain
and hitting low 90s on shorter flat rides and can keep 110 up for a short while. I haven't been on a bike in over a year and now been on my trike for 4
weeks and seen a drastic increase in cadence. When I first got the trike I was in the high 60s to low 70s. Note I was using a Garmin 705 and was having an
issue with the cadence sensor and it took me a day or two to figure out WTH was going on. I for a while had a cadence Lance Armstong would have been in aww 140
to 180. My magnet was just far enough away from the sensor that I was getting a reading before top dead center and again at past top dead center so I was
getting a 2 fer on each rev..
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