Clearly we have a different approach....

Last time I drafted anything it was an Amish buggy somewhere in Ohio....



..they even let me take their photo after a fashion....



..and let me tell you those horses generate some serious torque, of course I smoked 'em rolling downhill but they beat me like an old carpet going up.

Overall, I hit it off pretty well with the Plain Folk, I expect the beard and straw hat had more'n a little to do with that.... )



So while I'm sure my pedal cadence is about like anyone else's who customarily rides any distance (90??) I've never bothered counting. Likewise I stay away from speedometers/GPS, all that stuff. Long as that front wheel is rolling in front of you you're getting somewhere.

I averaged 64 miles/day on that TX-NY trip (distance according to Google Maps), longest single day was 96 miles from Greenville to just short of Delaware OH, all the more remarkable because I rolled out of Greenville around noon (right after a major front rolled through) and covered that distance by dark, courtesy of a 20 mph tailwind.

My attention while riding is usually focused on my surroundings, mostly I'm a life-long bird watcher, so pretty much when out on a bike I'm birding by habit. Besides the fact that faster leaves one fewer avoidance options in response to unforseen circumstance, worst of all it also necessitates you focus harder on just the asphalt in front of your front wheel.

With respect to gear inches, I live on that 32 tooth middle chainring, most of the time in the 50 to 27 GI range. In the last 3,000-4,000 miles I can prob'ly count on my fingers the number of times I've cranked on that 44 tooth chainring.

And it ain't like I'm against speed, for 12 years and 250,000 miles of my life my only transportation was motorcycles, generally ridden at the higher end of the speed scale. I just have no use for speed on a bicycle is all.

...and I avoid spandex and crotch pads like the plague...

Other's MMV,

Mike