Holy sheet. What's with the backwards date by the way?
Anyhow, I'm amazed by your cadence.. there's spinning and then crank stressing to take off!
Backwards date because it's easier to sort by date that way
That cadence isn't quite as radical as you might think, I did that on 160mm cranks. Various people have done research & found you produce about the same power at a given
pedal velocity over a wide range of crank lengths. Note that the relationship here is pedal velocity v's power not cadence. So if we take 90rpm @ 175mm we get 1.65m/s pedal velocity, with 160mm cranks 117 rpm we get 1.96m/s. Or to put it another way with 175mm cranks it would show the cadence as ave/max 107/137rpm. I've been riding on 160mm cranks on my geared bike all winter & it seems to be working really well, on the fixed I ride with 177.5mm cranks, with a single gear higher torque at low cadence matters much more, however on the downhill sections I'll actually end up spinning faster (165rpm typically or 3.07m/s
) which feeds back into the short crank cadence on my geared bikes.
I not even made 10 ton yet. My start to the year was pretty poor, just 38 miles in January and 145 in February, 216 in March, although this month has been better (517 at present).
