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[AAAC 76C]

there's no way I could have gone that fast on my own° QUOTE]
I meant to ask you where your cadence comes from. Your stats for that decent puts you on a 60T chainring

 

[AAAC 76C]

I give in!, quote!

 

[keithaitch]

If this is for me, I have always ridden with a high gear at a very low cadence. It is something I am trying, unsuccessfully to change, as it over uses fast twitch muscles which can causes problems late in rides/sportives.
I have a 54/11 as top gear and am in it a lot more on the trainer than in real life. I think on that descent the drafting gave me another couple of gears!

 

[AAAC 76C]

If this is for me, I have always ridden with a high gear at a very low cadence. It is something I am trying, unsuccessfully to change, as it over uses fast twitch muscles which can causes problems late in rides/sportives.
I have a 54/11 as top gear and am in it a lot more on the trainer than in real life. I think on that descent the drafting gave me another couple of gears!

Brings back memories of post TT discussions about what gear you were using.
At 16 I road a 54/42 x 13 straight thru 18 block. High cadence was only used on the rollers and early season medium gear TT's which were normally hilly.
The later was normally done on a fixed wheel training iron.

 

[Brusgaard]

I’ll start the warm up in 30 minutes... And after that, it is just up up up up...

 

[keithaitch]

I’ll start the warm up in 30 minutes... And after that, it is just up up up up...

Thx, I won't be there. Long tandem ride then an afternoon fixing my wife's friend's chain in the garage.

 

[shimceltic]

I’ll start the warm up in 30 minutes... And after that, it is just up up up up...

I'm out out out to the pub. Have fun

 

[Brusgaard]

Thx, I won't be there. Long tandem ride then an afternoon fixing my wife's friend's chain in the garage.

Why is he chained in the garage, bad behaviour? 😜

 

[shimceltic]

Why is he chained in the garage, bad behaviour? 😜

It's a women I reckon they have chained in the garage!

 

[AAAC 76C]

Why is he chained in the garage, bad behaviour? 😜

you beat me to it

 

[Mark68]

If this is for me, I have always ridden with a high gear at a very low cadence. It is something I am trying, unsuccessfully to change, as it over uses fast twitch muscles which can causes problems late in rides/sportives.
I have a 54/11 as top gear and am in it a lot more on the trainer than in real life. I think on that descent the drafting gave me another couple of gears!

No wonder I can't get anywhere near you on the descents. 50*11

 

[AAAC 76C]

holy moly
todays task was team time and or take back 2 secs from el Keith
tactics were to go out hard and see how I feel and try and catch a fast ghost to follow
if that failed then it was plan b to drop back and help a friend
almost killed myself in the first half and @Brusgaard looked too far back so i backed off and just about managed to hold my ghost off
i thought i was cooked with 4 to go but found a sweet spot at 101 rpm and held up, just
off to lay down now i have warmed down

 

[Mark68]

holy moly
todays task was team time and or take back 2 secs from el Keith
tactics were to go out hard and see how I feel and try and catch a fast ghost to follow
if that failed then it was plan b to drop back and help a friend
almost killed myself in the first half and @Brusgaard looked too far back so i backed off and just about managed to hold my ghost off
i thought i was cooked with 4 to go but found a sweet spot at 101 rpm and held up, just
off to lay down now i have warmed down

You did a great ride. I didn't have any legs today.
Felt like it was an uphill struggle🤢. Did try a warm down for a bit but couldn't even manage that.. all I managed was a couple of minutes spin with my head on the handlebars🥵

 

[Bored Man]

holy moly
todays task was team time and or take back 2 secs from el Keith
tactics were to go out hard and see how I feel and try and catch a fast ghost to follow
if that failed then it was plan b to drop back and help a friend
almost killed myself in the first half and @Brusgaard looked too far back so i backed off and just about managed to hold my ghost off
i thought i was cooked with 4 to go but found a sweet spot at 101 rpm and held up, just
off to lay down now i have warmed down

Saw the bots go past you like they were sprinting and you were doing 14mph on 7%

 

[BILL S]

.. all I managed was a couple of minutes spin with my head on the handlebars🥵

All I managed was 5 mins lying delirious on the floor. Great workout though. Interestingly for me my power output was higher than usual these days so I'm guessing its caused by slower spinning sticky tyre that will hopefully behave better on the flat when its replaced by something less sticky.