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Originally Posted by terrymorse
That article above found that the self-selected cadence was in the low 80s. That's the dotted line in the graph.
Understood. But the population studied are presumably NOT cyclists but normal people. So for a normal person a cadence of 60 may be optimal, but for a trained cyclist I suspect a cadence of 80 may be optimal. Again, that's my guess I have not researched it.
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