Bit harsh on @southernfox! People would do far better to listen/read what she has to say. Spinning is the way of the past, and the open minded riders out there are waking up to the science and real world proof that bigger gears and slower RPMs are faster right across the sprinter and enduro spectrum.

The spinners are the genetic outliers of our sport rather than the norm. Juniors , who are generally where we get our elites have to spin as they are brought up on restricted gearing. So the elites will be good spinners by default and shouldn’t be compared to anyone but elites and juniors. Elites and masters are drinking the cool aid as you Americans put it and going up the gear inch chart, slowing their RPMs and getting faster at the same time. But don’t think that just because they ride a big gear that they can’t spin, it doesn’t actually work that way