We’ve a winner!*
*[If you’re the winner feel free email me, maybe we can find you…something.]
That’s proper, additional to yesterday’s publish, the reply is that I swapped the cassettes, however I did not swap the lockrings:
As you may see, the lockring for the 12-tooth cassette is larger than the one for the 11-tooth, so after I put it on the 11-tooth cassette it didn’t permit the chain to completely interact the cog:
See, that’s what occurs once you rush issues. If I have been a professional biking staff mechanic I might have simply price my sprinter the race:
If he have been carrying a microphone, you’d hear him shouting, “HEY YOU SON-OF-A-BEETCH, YOU RUEEN DA BIKE, MARIO NO CAN A-USE-A HEES ELEVEN!!!”
So if you happen to study something from me, it ought to be to take your time when doing bike upkeep. Hey, it’s not a lot, but it surely’s all of the knowledge I’ve acquired to impart. For the actual vital stuff, like the way to enhance your biking cadence, you’ll have to seek the advice of the consultants:
Sadly, I’m not at the moment a Bicycling member:
Although sadly for them they tipped their hand and every part you must know is in entrance of the paywall:
See that? All you must do to spice up your cadence is get a motorcycle match, shorter cranks, an indoor coach, a pc and cadence sensor, a bigger cassette, smaller chainrings, a gravel drivetrain, and a triple.
Although I discover they did omit “downshift.”
Foolish me, there I used to be considering all you must do to spice up your cadence is pedal quicker.
So why are cyclists so obsessive about cadence anyway? I’ve been using for many years and I’ve but to determine the rationale, although I do keep in mind after I acquired my first biking laptop with a cadence sensor. So high-tech! Wow, a complete new quantity on the display and every part! Sadly, in contrast to velocity or mileage, that are cool and attention-grabbing issues to know, I had no concept in any respect to make of this new data. Certain, I now knew precisely what number of instances I used to be turning the cranks per minute, however was I turning it too many instances or too few instances? It was all tremendously thrilling, and but like a novice gamecock coach, I had no context:
Then there was Lance Armstrong. It turned out he and all his rivals have been mainlining EPO and blood luggage by the gallon, however again then the “consultants” claimed that the key to Armstrong’s success was biking genius Chris Carmichael’s sensible high-cadence method:
Pedal bike quicker =win race? WHO’DA THUNK IT??? Man, for awhile there, Chris Carmichael had it made. All he needed to do was experience round making up shit about bricks. He was even into singlespeeds and fixies earlier than it was cool:
See?
Certain. And typing with one hand for 4 hours is equal to typing with each fingers for eight hours. That’s why you you should use one hand on the workplace after which inform your boss you’re going house at lunch. (A minimum of till DOGE will get smart to it.)
And but right here we’re in 2025 and I nonetheless don’t know why the hell I ought to care what my cadence is. Doesn’t it simply come naturally? However I assume no one would learn an article known as, “PEDAL WHATEVER FUCKING SPEED YOU FEEL LIKE AND STOP BOTHERING ME.” So as an alternative we get “Six Surefire Methods To Supercharge The Shit Out Of Your Cadence,” and YouTube movies with rhetorical query titles and other people with dumb puzzled expressions–although normally you don’t have to look at them to search out the reply:
It’s not, it sucks.
Sure, you’re all going to die.
Sure, however they will solely be used with gravel footwear, and gravel socks, and ridden on gravel, or else you’re all going to die.
Talking of gravel, the UCI Gravel World Championships in Good has been cancelled:
They’re now in search of a brand new venue:
And clearly they need to look no additional than Cleveland:
There’s gotta be some gravel round there someplace.
As for the gravel in Good, I needed to study extra about it and located this:
I then clicked on the #whatisgravel search hyperlink:
And located this:
Apparently gravel is now utterly ineffable, although the message was accompanied by this picture:
I assume he’s gravel personified, although he’s standing on a floor fabricated from processed gravel.
However possibly probably the most annoying factor about gravel is the punctuation–sorry the PNCTN. See, the gravel fashion handbook requires all phrases to be rendered in all-caps with no vowels. Nevertheless, apparently Open, the corporate with maybe probably the most irritating mannequin naming conventions in all of biking (and that’s coming from somebody who rides a motorcycle known as a Platypus) has been granted an exception and is allowed to make use of vowels simply so long as they embrace a bunch of gratuitous intervals:
So 4 intervals…however you’ve acquired to supply the clear coat your self:
They’re not even making an attempt anymore.
