Gearing Differences/Ratios?

[laura*]

I put a cadence sensor on my new road bike and I seem to be comfortable right around 80 rpm. Is this considered mashing? I see lots of articles, etc that say you should be around 90, but that feels so ...not sure of the right word..."unproductive" maybe? to me.

Mashing is much lower, say 40 rpm. Thus 80 rpm is not mashing.

It can take a while to adapt to spinning fast. You have to train lots of muscles to work in a very choreographed way.

[jlnc]

Well, that's good to know! I'm not doing as bad as I thought then