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If the OP is really a troll, can't the mods take him out back and give him a stern talking-to?
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You can be a troll without violating any rules.
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I'm convinced neurosport is a sociopath based on his own admission that he didn't recognize his behavior as a troll until someone pointed it out to him combined with the fact that it doesn't seem to have changed the way he posts either.
Or maybe he's just a really exceptional troll.
Or maybe he's just a really exceptional troll.
Once a troll, always a troll.
The post starting this thread is too stupid for words. And it's not much different than his first trolling post.
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get a 94/70/56 that's what i use
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Hey I just noticed I am closing in on 2k posts. Not sure if this is something to be proud of or ashamed of.
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Still less than 10% of umd and only 5% of you-know-who.
edit: that was a triple posting, apropos to the topic, for those who missed it.
edit: that was a triple posting, apropos to the topic, for those who missed it.
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with my genetics i need to spin slow. i am trying to work on getting the cadence up a bit but it naturally tends towards 50 or so. i will keep working on that but i have to ultimately listen to my body, not some numbers taken from other people.
if i spin faster i won't be able to put down more power - in fact i will put down less - the only thing that i might achieve this way is my legs might get smaller so i might get lighter and this way faster. however i don't want smaller legs.
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i have a 53/39 right now and i feel at the same time that 53 is not enough on the flats and that 39 is too much on the climbs ( i am fat, climbs are difficult )
also at the same time shifting from 39 to 53 is quite sketchy.
i would ideally want something like 56/44/34
i mean i would be fine with just 56/34 but somehow i don't think that would work ?
or should i simply lose some fat ass and go for 55/42 ?
also at the same time shifting from 39 to 53 is quite sketchy.
i would ideally want something like 56/44/34
i mean i would be fine with just 56/34 but somehow i don't think that would work ?
or should i simply lose some fat ass and go for 55/42 ?
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I am not sure if the OP is receptive to suggestions, but I ask you to entertain the idea that you will be more efficient if you aim for a higher cadence, 80-90. I know 50 may feel "natural" to you if that is they way you have been doing it all along, but if you try a faster cadence I suspect you will eventually like it and get much more power.
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You might consider getting a compact cyclocross crank set in 46/36 (FSA) with a 12-25 cassette. This gives you a better shot at the hills.
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with my genetics i need to spin slow <-- slowpo gonzalez ...
"if i spin faster i won't be able to put down more power - in fact i will put down less "<-- well that's obvious, but i believe you don't understand what everybody is telling you and what u need to work IS CADENCE, NOT POWER. And let me tell you this, the reason because u suck going uphill is because you dont have cadence. It is worthless to have a lot of power w/o having cadence... maybe u can understand this... doesnt matter if you have an engine capable of generate 2789 Hp if you don't have a transmission able to handle that power and send it to the wheels. Hope you can get it this way because everybody is telling you whats wrong. If you don't want to listen go ahead buy a chainwheel in 60 and a 11T cassette. Because even my little kid with his tricycle will pass you going uphill due to the fact that you will become even slower afterwards
The trick is not power, the trick is cadence. Power is a thing that you work little by little, but power w/o cadence is useless, like an engine w/o a transmission. In a matter of fact im darn fat and ugly right now and i still have my cadence. I dont ride fast at all but i still smile a lot when a fatso goes with 53x11 and i pass him with my big belly looking like a darn bear using 42x16 just like nothing. Even they look at me like... WTF...!!! People do not know im behind them because i dont change gears also.
U can do over 35 km/h using 39x16, even if the road is hilly u can do the whole road with only 1 gear, people do not get it... people do not understand... people refuse to see and still think that the trick is as heavy the gear you can move the better, as heavy it is the more power you put, duh!. I'm almost sure the OP times are getting slower and thats why he wants to change gears also. And if he can't figure it out why, there is nothing we could tell him, he wont read or listen.
U dont want smaller legs? I can show you mines, 40 years old, i don't do more than 500 miles per year... but still have some of my cycling legs. Well i was a tracker and that makes a difference but i believe the OP needs to inject steroids or go and do weight machines if he is looking for muscles at Schwarzenegger style. I even believe this is a 13 years old fat kid that is trying to be popular somehow. If you look at it popular kids never do cycling, cycling is the sports of rich people, practiced by poor and unpopular people.
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"if i spin faster i won't be able to put down more power - in fact i will put down less "<-- well that's obvious, but i believe you don't understand what everybody is telling you and what u need to work IS CADENCE, NOT POWER. And let me tell you this, the reason because u suck going uphill is because you dont have cadence. It is worthless to have a lot of power w/o having cadence... maybe u can understand this... doesnt matter if you have an engine capable of generate 2789 Hp if you don't have a transmission able to handle that power and send it to the wheels. Hope you can get it this way because everybody is telling you whats wrong. If you don't want to listen go ahead buy a chainwheel in 60 and a 11T cassette. Because even my little kid with his tricycle will pass you going uphill due to the fact that you will become even slower afterwards
The trick is not power, the trick is cadence. Power is a thing that you work little by little, but power w/o cadence is useless, like an engine w/o a transmission. In a matter of fact im darn fat and ugly right now and i still have my cadence. I dont ride fast at all but i still smile a lot when a fatso goes with 53x11 and i pass him with my big belly looking like a darn bear using 42x16 just like nothing. Even they look at me like... WTF...!!! People do not know im behind them because i dont change gears also.
U can do over 35 km/h using 39x16, even if the road is hilly u can do the whole road with only 1 gear, people do not get it... people do not understand... people refuse to see and still think that the trick is as heavy the gear you can move the better, as heavy it is the more power you put, duh!. I'm almost sure the OP times are getting slower and thats why he wants to change gears also. And if he can't figure it out why, there is nothing we could tell him, he wont read or listen.
U dont want smaller legs? I can show you mines, 40 years old, i don't do more than 500 miles per year... but still have some of my cycling legs. Well i was a tracker and that makes a difference but i believe the OP needs to inject steroids or go and do weight machines if he is looking for muscles at Schwarzenegger style. I even believe this is a 13 years old fat kid that is trying to be popular somehow. If you look at it popular kids never do cycling, cycling is the sports of rich people, practiced by poor and unpopular people.
Darn
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I am not sure if the OP is receptive to suggestions, but I ask you to entertain the idea that you will be more efficient if you aim for a higher cadence, 80-90. I know 50 may feel "natural" to you if that is they way you have been doing it all along, but if you try a faster cadence I suspect you will eventually like it and get much more power.
I am not sure if the OP is receptive to suggestions, but I ask you to entertain the idea that you will be more efficient if you aim for a higher cadence, 80-90. I know 50 may feel "natural" to you if that is they way you have been doing it all along, but if you try a faster cadence I suspect you will eventually like it and get much more power.
He probably drives a standard transmission car in 5th gear around town to get more power.
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with my genetics i need to spin slow. i am trying to work on getting the cadence up a bit but it naturally tends towards 50 or so. i will keep working on that but i have to ultimately listen to my body, not some numbers taken from other people.
But I suspect you really don't care about that, you just want to brag about how supposedly "powerful" you are. Hint: Here we ain't impressed. Go over to a bodybuilder forum and impress some pimply teenagers if that's your goal.
if i spin faster i won't be able to put down more power - in fact i will put down less - the only thing that i might achieve this way is my legs might get smaller so i might get lighter and this way faster. however i don't want smaller legs.
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I am not sure if the OP is receptive to suggestions, but I ask you to entertain the idea that you will be more efficient if you aim for a higher cadence, 80-90. I know 50 may feel "natural" to you if that is they way you have been doing it all along, but if you try a faster cadence I suspect you will eventually like it and get much more power.
I am not sure if the OP is receptive to suggestions, but I ask you to entertain the idea that you will be more efficient if you aim for a higher cadence, 80-90. I know 50 may feel "natural" to you if that is they way you have been doing it all along, but if you try a faster cadence I suspect you will eventually like it and get much more power.
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also the ability of mitochondria to produce ATP isn't related to cadence in any way. if your muscle is limited chemically ( as mine is ) rather than mechanically ( as yours apparently is ) then the slower you pedal the more efficient you are because you're not wasting ATP for unnecessary contraction.