Old 10-04-08, 07:32 PM
  #13  
banerjek
Portland Fred
 
banerjek's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 11,548

Bikes: Custom Winter, Challenge Seiran SL, Fuji Team Pro, Cattrike Road/Velokit, РOS hybrid

Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 232 Post(s)
Liked 53 Times in 35 Posts
Originally Posted by George
I'm also wondering about cadence, can you get a high cadence with platform pedals? I tried the platform pedals with the little spikes in them and my feet came off the pedals a few times.
Depends on your stroke. Maintaining 120 RPM is not hard if your stroke is smooth. However, as mattm observes you can get power out of much more of the stroke if you're attached to the pedal.

Originally Posted by Machka
I've got one foot in each camp ..... my left foot is clipped in, my right foot is on a platform pedal. Works great!!
That Fred award you won was well-deserved
banerjek is offline