+1
Sounds good. I'm sure you can accelerate and brake faster with the lower gearing too.
Really, 130 is plenty fast. for most people there is no need to spin faster than that (one possible exception - I did 180rpm going down hill once, but I wouldn't recommend that to anyone!)
Originally Posted by
kingston
I did the same 25 mile loop today with 44/18 gearing as I did yesterday with 44/16 gearing with similar effort in basically the exact same amount of time. I'm not sure what I expected, but I guess I learned that gearing doesn't make you faster.
I also noticed that my top speed was 25.5 mph (downhill) and calculated my cadence at around 130. I'm going to need a lot of practice to get up to 180 because 130 seemed ridiculously fast to me.