compact crank sprint
05-09-08 | 07:42 PM
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compact crank sprint
will you be just as fast in a sprint if you race with a compact compared to your traditional crankset?
05-09-08 | 07:44 PM
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05-09-08 | 07:45 PM
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Assuming this is a serious question, it depends. As long as you're not in a downhill tailwind sprint, you'll be fine.
05-09-08 | 11:13 PM
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Style of sprinting counts too. A track sprinter would laugh at a 50x11 and say it's too high for any sprint unless it was a paced one (and even then I doubt they'd use one). A road sprinter who doesn't spin as much and is very strong will think it's too small a gear.
I sprint at perhaps 120 rpm max. I used to change my rings to reflect my shape - 51T, using the 12, then a 54x12, then back to the 51x11. Finally, when I was humming along in that gear, I'd put the 54T back on. After a year or two I lent my 51 out and never got it back. So now I just go up the cassette, one gear at a time. Kinda stuck in the 13T range right now
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I sprint at perhaps 120 rpm max. I used to change my rings to reflect my shape - 51T, using the 12, then a 54x12, then back to the 51x11. Finally, when I was humming along in that gear, I'd put the 54T back on. After a year or two I lent my 51 out and never got it back. So now I just go up the cassette, one gear at a time. Kinda stuck in the 13T range right now
cdr
05-10-08 | 08:43 AM
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05-10-08 | 01:58 PM
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