Originally Posted by
caloso
Learn the art of soft-pedaling. Basically, you are coasting, but you keep turning the pedals over, just not fast enough to engage the pawls of the freewheel. It looks smoother, but more importantly it is smoother because you just have to increase the rotation a bit rather than starting from zero.
Originally Posted by
TimothyH
+1
Originally Posted by
Nachoman
If more people would soft pedal, instead of coast, it would make my life in the paceline so much more relaxing.
yet if you watch eg. the TDF, many riders in the middle of the peloton, especially in the earlier miles, will be seen coasting.