Now that's interesting. Watch even older videos of Coppi and Bartalli on climbs and on the flats; 50 rpm standing in a 62" gear, and -- Coppi -- 120 rpm bursts in a 93" high alternating with coasting on the flats (48 X 14-21 4 speed); much as I used to ride (we pros share a great deal) with the difference that (this was 30 years ago) my flatland cruising was about 64" at 108+ rpm for 20+ mph. No longer! 90 in a 76" gear is high. Funny, it was riding fixed that transformed me from a twiddler to a masher; true.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:11 PM Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... As I've watched pro road cycling since the 70/80's, this is how > everyone rode. Slow rpm in big gears uphill and huge gears spinning high > rpm with great supple' going downhill and on the flats. Watch Greg Lemond > in the 80's in race videos, he was fluid from the very low to very high > rpm. To be a pro you pretty much had to be able to do that. That started to > change in the early 90's, where higher uphill rpm were beginning to happen, > but that time frame coincided with the introduction of the drug EPO, which > basically gave riders more oxygen in the blood so they could push those > higher rpm without running out of oxygen. That's how the story goes as I > understood it at least. Even still, you see riders ride in every > conceivable way and so one must caution against implying "everyone does > this or that" because everyone is unique in their own way. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs%2BmH0AhHAOG-L75KD1qo9_puruzgRCo_xgqBnmm5W_Zw%40mail.gmail.com.
