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Old 07-14-05 | 05:16 PM
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From: North Acton, West London, UK
powercranks - any one use them?

at the risk of being flamed to death by Raiyn (flinch - braces for impact) amongst others

As a powercrank virgin I thought, given my lack of coordination in other areas (can't catch and can't kick - hence I play prop), there would be a fairly steep learning curve but...
Suprise 1 - I am a smooth pedaler - even managed to crank them up to 150rpm+ for a couple of seated sprints.
Suprise 2 - while they definitely work more muscles (back, stomach and inner thighs - would you believe) they're not as hard work as expected.

Now I just have to practice my starts and stops before I brave London traffic with them.

Anyway the point of all this is to find out how many others have used powercranks and their thoughts on them.

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