likely...
riding on a rough road, cobbles, hard dirt is often better, and safer at a lower rpm and constant power load....
But then I'm a roadie, been a racing roadie since '69...(stopped in 2012) so my comments are 'roadie'.
Even now, after some recent serious slack time, I have a hard time just doin a 'birds/bees, flowers' ride... LOL
Learning to do that... but roadie cadence gets me over most anything... just doesn't seem to help when I ride with the under 40 guys in these parts... LOL!
... a goal... then there'll be another after that one...
Thx
Yuri