To spin or to mash?
 

What is your preference? what is your pedalig style? thoughts pls.

I like to ride from point A to B without dying while having fun :foo:

I have crappy knees...

mashing hurts.

that leaves spinning.

Spash.

Depends on how many potatoes the recipe requires.

I do smash :) (Spin + Mash lol)

Its depends what is your preferred commuting speed, I usually ride like flash (kinda dangerous, I knew)

So when heavy traffic, I looks like mashing and when its light and no cars around, I spin like crazy P.S. my gears ratio is 90+ GI

90 GI! you're a monster :O

Pics of teh drivetrain for proof if ya dont mind? :D

Kidding aside, what city u in? hows the elevation and traffic?

I set up my gears to give me same avg cadence as my road bike.

Depending on the season and terrain, that's 46x18 or 46x17. That gives me 18mph or 19mph at about 90 cadence. Top speed around 29 or 30...

OOps, my mistake, my GI is 87.8, not 90+ sorry :foo: my combination is 52x16 btw

I am no monster at all, I just love this combination and I can do it with comfort

And well, pic prove nothing though but I will post it anyway, I wish I could show you how I smash my pedal :D

http://i.imgur.com/gzUNIYj.jpg

P.S. sorry for big image, hope its fine here :foo:

My city homwtown is Bangkok, terrain mostly flat + bridge, no serious hill! traffic is terrible heavy here but mostly flowing, I just go with flow

What crankset and chainring is that? It looks like an IRD Defiant crank, but the logo is wrong.

Naise :) bangkok ha? gud stuff man, your bike is so shiny too :)

Its local brand, the logo name is Chaser but you probably not find any info on website because they sell in local only

Talk about looks, its also looks like Mighty Sugino Crankarm too, here example of pic I pick from google

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2603/...825c126597.jpg

And you say IRD Defiant? indeed, its does looks alot like

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...e2dc58a224.jpg

So, I guess mine was copy cat of Sugino/IRD crank design, just different chain ring design :D

Thanks :thumb:

With a single speed or fixed gear you're gonna do a little of both...you should prefer both.

Coast.

A little bit of this and a little bit of that. There is a time and a place for both. I doubt anyone LITERALLY only does one 100% of the time.

Mash uphill and spin downhill. :)

Like Andr0id, I believe in gearing my FG for a cadence of about 90 rpm’s at my normal cruising speed.

Last weekend I did a group ride with 5 other regular riders, two of us on FG, the others on geared road bikes. The other FG rider, one of the geared riders, and myself held the front. Everyone pushed it and was spent… Didn’t want to do another lap.

The other FG rider was running 48-16. I’m older and not as strong as him and run 46-18. Not only do I find spinning more comfortable than mashing, but it’s the only way I could’ve kept up!

At some point, gearing up doesn’t make one any faster, only mashier! I found my point.

Those running high gear inches are one or more of the following:

Truly stronger and faster than average riders.
Mashers
Posers

Yo AT, u cant be that old mannn, im sure u can handle 48/16 from time to time :) whats your cycling location btw and hows the weather?

Of course I can handle 48/16, (and even higher!) ... on my geared bike where I can shift up and down as required. :p

But not on a fixed gear.

Let me try to explain another way. A few months ago I entered a local charity "race". All riders were timed with a chip. Going all out for 46 minutes on my 46-18 I managed an overall average of 18.6 mph over 14.5 miles. Not the fastest and not the slowest. (actually placed 4th out of 67, which really surprised me)

This put me at a tad over 90 rpm average cadence. I COULD NOT have pushed a taller gear at that cadence. Had I run a higher ratio, my time would have been slower. 90-100 rpm's (sometimes more) is common for ultimate cycling performance.

I'm in the western Chicago suburbs. It was 20 degrees when I biked to work at 6am this morning. It's 12 miles each way and I do it over a hundred times a year... less in the winter, but I still hit every month.

Where you at, and what's your cycling story?

This is about right.


-Tim-

Naise :) ah just a simple commuter in east manila, 24kms total round trip everyday, 4 hills, heavy traffic and pollution, 30 degrees celcius morning rides.

But sometimes too lazy to go out biking when its raining :D

When it comes to potatoes can you really lose?

No Foot retention? Are you running fixed?

And what kind of frame is that?


-Tim-

Looks like a freewheel to me.