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How interesting - that your comfortable RPM is now lower. But, yes it is true - A lower RPM gives your legs "more" to push against so it "seems" easier to push more power that way (kind of like climbing a hill allowing you to push more power), then spinning at higher RPM. The low RPM works...

I went out and rode my TT route this morning at 6am and shot this video. I am not nearly as powerful or fast at Marco so probably not as much fun to watch :eek:, but at least you see what I see (and deal with) every week: I do have a 360 camera packed away somewhere - I'll try and find it for...

Amazing Video Marco!!! - You mostly costing around all those roundabouts (for nearly 1 min total) makes your 300 avg watts for your ride even more impressive! Congrats my friend. I was thinking of video one of my ride soon too. Would love videos from anyone else. Great entertainment!

There is obviously a balance there. It is really hard to maintain anything over 100rpm unless you ride like that all the time and adjust to it. I am convinced you can eventually adapt and become more efficient in that higher range and eventually push yourself harder.

Please send me you ride link - thanks

One of the keys I have found is to made sure my feet are carving a hole in the wind for my shoulders. There is a sweet spot that just has to be experimented with and tested somewhere where you can make a change, test, change, test, duplicate, etc

For short cranks you can also buy a used set of Apex cranks for maybe $50-100, then take them to a machine shop and have them tap them for you wherever you want.

Week #4 Results: (updated with new Thur night TT riders I missed, and corrected point values) Hi Everyone! Another fantastic week by everyone! This week we had a total of 50 riders! We welcome 6 new riders - this week - Wow: Terry Duff, Linda Bowen, G.B. Bowen, Heidi Wilkes, Paul Wilkes, Keith...

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Please bear with me for the results. I give everyone until the end of the day on Monday to post their rides. After that it takes me quite a while to get everything finalized and doubled checked. I just sent out the emails to everyone. I will post the Week #2, Week #3 and Week #4 numbers here too

Marco - Fantastic Video - love the prelude! It would be interesting to see the same test done with the Rev HTH

I may do the same - I really need to rebuild my upper body too! :D We shall see! :rolleyes:

What kind of "dowing machine" did you get? Does if make $ dsough, or pizza dough, or donut dough? My guess is donut dough - :)

I have read that mid sole cleat position allowed upright racers to make more power. I never saw any data on it. Also read that about wider Q factor too. I switched to mid-sole for hot-foot and it helped a lot on long rides. I have switched back and forth between the 2 a lot also and have never...

The speed sensor will just give you a more accurate speed in real-time while you are riding, so you can have them both running. Since this challenge is really only based on your Personal Best time, the only real requirement is that you have a segment and the time for the segment - and have them...

Just send me an email that you have completed the ride and include the URL of the ride or segment for me. If you name you ride something like: Cruzbike TT - week 3#), then once I am following you I can just pull up your profile for the week and see your ride and the pull the data from there.

I have some of the data in spreadsheet format and will send it to you via email Marco As for similar physicality and power - you are too kind - as I can only aspire to come close to yours as a personal goal. I fear the only excuse I can use is "old age"! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Everybody is different, but in my tests I have proven (at least for me), that I loose power making capabilities as I lay in a more reclined position. There might be some amount of "training" in a position that might give your body the ability to adapt to its highest power level at that position...

Not sure if you have a power meter or not, but if you have the cash and interest - that would be a great investment. As "nobrakes" said above - it is the best way to gauge performance. Once you know you 1-hr FTP level (avg watts you can put out for an hour), then you can monitor your power...