Commuting

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I commute from Hounslow to Southwark most days and got a speedo and cadence counter, I try to
average about 90 rpm and I wondered what cadence should I be aiming for😕 any ideas?

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If all your doing is commuting then don't bother aiming for any cadence, ride what's comfortable. 90
is a decent rpm, it won't knacker you and it wont screw your knees up. Better than a lot of cyclists
you see, struggling to push 40rpm!

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In article <[email hidden]>, usenet- [email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

I commute from Hounslow to Southwark most days and got a speedo and

cadence counter, I try to average about 90 rpm and I wondered what cadence should I be aiming
for😕 any ideas?

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If all your doing is commuting then don't bother aiming for any cadence, ride what's comfortable.
90 is a decent rpm, it won't knacker you and it wont screw your knees up. Better than a lot of
cyclists you see, struggling to push 40rpm!

In this wind at 90 rpm ... you're going nowhere 😉 Seriously, I split between 'near-spinning' and
"hard slogging". It gives me a bit of each for when I need it. Hounslow to Soutwark sounds like a
flat run -correct me if I'm wrong -, why not sneak it up a few gears and try to keep up the 90 rpm?
Of course, down it a couple of gears and you might make a cadence of 120rpm
:~)

Yordis said:

I commute from Hounslow to Southwark most days and got a speedo and cadence counter, I try to
average about 90 rpm and I wondered what cadence should I be aiming for😕 any ideas?

Here's a quick overview, courtesy of myra-simon.comcadence.htmlOpen ↗, a really
interesting resource.

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Optimum Cadence

All the information in this article comes from Chapter 5 "Optimum Pedaling Cadence," by J. Coast,
in High-Tech Cycling (Edmund Burke, editor, Human Kinetics, 1996). This chapter summarizes various
experiments done to determine the opimal cadence for cycling. They found that optimum cadence
varied, depending both on how much power you are producing, and what you hope to maximize in your
assessment of "optimal."

First, let's assume that "optimal" means "most efficient aerobically,"
i.e. least amount of oxygen consumed. They found that, generally, the more power you're putting
out, the higher your cadence should be. The numbers run something like this: optimum cadence
when you're dawdling along (producing 50W power output) is about 40 rpm, while optimum
cadence for a real effort (300W output) is about 80 rpm.

Now let's say that "optimal" means "least stress on joint and muscles,"
i.e. your biggest problem is not aerobic capacity but how tired your muscles are getting and how
much stress is being put on your knees and other joints. This is more a concern for endurance
athletes, like in longer road races and Tour De France stages. When examined for this, the
best cadence was in the order of 95 to 100 rpm (I think they were only considering high power
outputs in these experiments).

Also, the lower gear provided by a high cadence means that acceleration is easy, so higher cadence
is important in road races (when you have to be ready at all times to follow a break).
Acceleration is largely irrelevant in time trials.

So this is why you see relatively low cadences in town cyclists (they're not putting out much
energy), high cadences in road racers, and medium cadences in time trialers.

I think your 90 rpm is fine. It's my target, too.
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Michael MacClancy Random putdown - "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -
Mae West www.macclancy.demon.co.uk www.macclancy.co.uk

Yordis said:

I commute from Hounslow to Southwark most days and got a speedo and cadence counter, I try to
average about 90 rpm and I wondered what cadence should I be aiming for😕 any ideas?

90 is good. I do 100 but I've always had delusions of being a racer.

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:25:19 GMT, "elyob" <[email hidden]>

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In this wind at 90 rpm ... you're going nowhere 😉

Will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the Earth?

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Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:25:19 GMT, "elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message <z6fZb.3458$5c4.30633124@news-
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In this wind at 90 rpm ... you're going nowhere 😉

Will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the Earth?

Secret policeman's ball? I used to have a tape of that, many years ago, which went missing. Never
been able to find a replacement...

Until now. Using the Power Of The Internet. Cool. The web didn't exist last time I looked, let
alone Amazon.

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