Originally Posted by Robert Gardner
I don't think determining your cadence without the aid of a bicycle computer with the built in cadence is worth a hoot. For years I used to determine my cadence by various counting schemes. When I finally got an Avocet computer with cacence and more recently a Cateye computer with cadence I found my estimates were way off no matter how I did it. How I got started at trying to determine my cadence was at a time many years ago when it was thought that there was an ideal cadence. There isn't!!!!!
Assuming one is not coasting, isn't computing one's cadence from the gear ratio and the ground speed reliable?
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
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