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MTB are fantastic. Riding with friends at Amahela Race - some of the team having major technical issues- and then Superman Chriss from Triathlon cyles in Newcastle- come past offers help and spends 20 minutes fixing one of the bikes with a destroyed derailer. Then we have another issies and another chap stops and helps us and gave us parts ect - this is realy cool 😎 and a fabulous trait us MTB possess.

Thanks 😊

I ate well and drank well. I still think not was high cadence. lets see this weekend normal road bike.

hahah, you could be right!

I did eat well but the tell tell sign of the high Candace now that I think back is how my legs were burning and “legs sweating” 😓 yip I was thinking to my self I did not know legs can sweat “

60 years old. I was working hard but managed my pace. I will try a proper road bike this weekend and see what’s the story. also the front wheel was binding and I suspect that was also a issue see clips IMG_6168.mov

Yes, I’m pretty fit and I’m able to do 82 100 km without much stress. It may be my gears.

Yip crossed my mind. I’m going to do two things and that is a proper Road Bike and other thing is to go out slow and hammer the last half

Absolutely, I think you’re right because I fly up the hills and it’s only really on the straights where my cadence is high and there should be no reason why I can’t keep up with the bunch.

I generally get dropped on the open flats and the down hills but on the uphill, there is no issues.

Yes my cadence is high. As soon as it is “long open road flat or downhill” I get dropped!! Uphill I am relatively fast with no real tiring issues.

Thank you for these calculation graphs, but I’m not able to understand the answer in correlation to what’s happening to me

I don’t have much data because I just have a basic Garmin and it doesn’t have cadence or power. My first hour and bit at around 40-48 km/h average my legs were burning 🔥 and then from around 52km my speed drops to 30km/h and from 70 km-115 around 23km/k.

I have a super gravel bike it has a Sram XX1 set up and the cassette is 11speed 10-42 and the chain ring is a 42 teeth. Today we did a fast race and for the first hour I averaging around 42 km an hour. At around 50 km my legs felt absolutely exhausted “ blown “and I had to pedal slowly the whole way home another 70km! I also had some cramp in my thigh. can someone tell me if the cadence is too high for this gearing or is it OK and basically I’m just an unfit old fart? 💨 I climb up hills well and generally on rides around 40 to 70 km my averages around 28 to 30 km an hour, dep on elervation. do you think my gear races are correct or do you think the cadence is too high and this is what’s causing me to blow? Any good input will be welcome thank you so much