Originally Posted by Iride01

They knew about cadence a long time ago. The owners of the Schwinn store where I bought my bikes as a youth and teen in the 70's told me all about it. I just ignored them and was a masher back then. However as I got older, I learned that a good range of cadence was the way to go. And a high cadence is the only way to be fast on the typical range of gearing that we have on road bikes. So getting use to spinning easy gears between 80 - 120 rpm really helped me. No one will be fast mashing away at 60 rpm.