Originally Posted by M3ta7h3ad
Efficiency of a single speed bike. Rather impressive!
I'm also a new convert to spinning, always thought grinding was the way forward, and used to cruise along in my hardest gear. Fitted a new cycle computer and realised that when I dropped 3 gears my legs went faster, but it wasnt as hard to pedal and I was going about 2 mile an hour faster too.
Crazy, still "felt slower" than grinding, but the cycle computer was saying otherwise!
Strange. Most people can figure out that shifting to a lower gear makes cycling easier when the current gear gets too difficult, and they have figured it out without computers since gears were invented.
Works in automobiles too!