Originally Posted by
stardognine
I'm not sure what made me think of this, especially on Christmas, lol, but what's your favorite song, for touring? 🤔
For me, it's "Desperado" by The Eagles. You can improvise the lyrics just a bit, in your head, for a perfect fit. 😉
And just like that Seinfeld episode, it puts you in a certain "zone", that noone better mess with. 😎😁😉
So, what's your touring song?
“It’s 1910 and the eccentric researcher Leonard P. Ayres is watching the New York six-day bike race at Madison Square Garden. He’s got his stopwatch out, timing the riders as they whir around the velodrome. A brass band plays intermittently on the sidelines, generally for a few minutes at a time before stopping for a brief interval. As Ayres writes down lap times, he notices something quite fascinating.
When the band is playing, the riders take an average of 3:04 to ride a mile. When the band is silent, the average time increases to 3:21. The background music seems to be inspiring the riders to push harder as they fly around the track.”
From an article published in CyclingTips.
Not a spinner, I use music asynchronously, therefore 125-130 bpm does it for me.
AFAIK, only electronic music composers come up with tracks in the 10 minutes range, 15 extended remix aren’t rare.
When fighting a relentless headwind on flat cycle lane for miles, this music @125bpm, really helps.