Originally Posted by
queerpunk
If you hit 130 rpm, then you either have a typo in the gear, or you took an unbelievably inefficient line - my back-of-the-napkin calculated 130 rpm in a 49/13 to be about an 11.5.
i'd say that if you did a terrible line with undialed gear, then you can probably take off .5 seconds just via practice. Getting your timing, execution, and gear right. Doesn't have to take 3 months. Just takes a lot of flying 200s.
I would guess there's plenty of things I have done wrong, apparently my line was a mile off and I've jumped like 20-25 metres late.
I suppose I'm also fairly inexperienced in general, only cycling about a year (training maybe 6 months).