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Old 03-23.-2004
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hollow thread ? bit rough, dot

Adaptation.. has to play apart.. train in a specific way.. get better in that way.
You can learn more then one language...
you can train in more then one cadence...
for me at the moment and I appreciate I'm just the average Joe here in terms of cycling performance. I like to climb at 74 cad just out of the saddle or at just under 100 cad in the saddle.... because that's the way I train..
but I’m doing my base rides at 90 cad ? am I missing something ?

Experimenting with cadence in training seems to me to be similar to experimenting with gear ratios..

I don't disagree with any of you generally....... of course all riders are different and yes there is the element of the Pide Piper and rats into the sea thing.

Its just my experience that the obvious is usually what is... and expert advice is only as good as the next set of research findings.....
I read one of McCormacks used 55 teeth big ring and he was damn fast. Let's talk on his cadence? :-)

Why bigger guys are mostly mashers?
If they have good trained legs they have a lot of power to push bigger gears. If you are skinny guy you would prefer faster spinning. It's still my point.
Lance legs don't look beefy.

So is it good for you? Just try it. there is no other way to appreciate this technique. And there are too many variables to count why this man spins 110 revs and that man grinds 75 revs during endurance rides.

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Dont have time to read the whole thread... but it states it in the "Lance Armstrong 8 Week Training Program" book....

Explains that he and his trainer tried to figure out a way that lance could climb the hills in the tour de france... and he found that pedalling in a lower gear at a higher cadence worked for him
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