Originally Posted by
mercator
I see all the talk about aero and training, but it seems to me that gearing must be near the top of the list in terms of what needs to be changed. From the OPs description, it sounds like a lot of riding is done in 40-11, or the highest possible gear. And he wants to go faster.
For a comparison,
here is the OPs gearing compared to what I am running, and I don't consider myself all that fast. Also I'm old, but I use the 53-12 quite often and I don't think I could even pedal the OPs bike over 30 mph.
Yeah, I think we've wandered into the weeds a bit here. He needs bigger gears, but not necessarily more than, say, 48, because he lives where it's quite flat, and he'll never have a chance to spin out a 48x11 unless there's a hurricane blowing behind him - which, given he lives in Florida, is a distinct possibility.