Originally Posted by
ofajen
In case you didn’t read the article I linked earlier, the author encouraged riders to not fall into the common habit of thinking that a single cadence is best, but to regard all cadences as useful to all riders but not in all situations.
His guidance on how to think of the situations and connect them with appropriate cadences follows:
YMMV, but I found that made sense for my riding.
Otto
I was going to say something similar, but I think this sums it up well. Obviously, your individual cadence may vary in those scenarios, but those numbers are close for me. I did a Zwift race the other day that pretty much covered the whole cadence spectrum! Overall average (including coasting) was 86 rpm, max 128 rpm and min 60 rpm. There was pretty much no steady-state riding. My cadence in a flat TT would have looked completely different.