Originally Posted by
tomkcook
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
I'm thinking you can (need to) do much better than 30 - 40 RPM! Like double that. Even at 60 y.o. I get to 100 RPM with relative ease but on a 9 mi. commute in rolling country with few stops I'd probably try to stay in the high 80's with bursts up to 90 - 100.
That's a pretty wild guess - I'll check next time I'm riding.
Yep, a very wild guess. On my ride in this morning I think the numbers were more like:
- Comfortable - 70-80 RPM
- Doable but uncomfortable - 80-90 RPM
- I can spin my legs this fast but it's not adding - 100 RPM
This is again an estimate while riding but I have a reasonable musician's sense of time - these are somewhere in the right ballpark.