Subject: RE: Relationship between Cadence and Turnover Interesting observation!
I'm guessing something along the lines of rate of muscle twitch vs. exertion or something like that. Kind of like the whole car horsepower approach.
Horsepower has a correlation to torque by a constant and rpms. The more torque at a certain rpm you have, the more horsepower you get. Muscle cars go for really high torque numbers, but cannot achieve that torque at high rpms so fizzle out once the revs rise. High strung smaller engines have very little in the torque department but have higher redlines and their peak torque is much higher in the rev range and so the power builds in a more linear fashion peaking out much later. That's the reason my Prelude with only 205 hp can hit about 145 mph while a Mustang from the same year with 260hp can barely hit 140-ish, but it can kill me in drag race (top speed is a function of horsepower and aerodynamics, straight line acceleration is more a torque factor ). All its power comes in a lower range.
The human body obviously can only produce so much "torque," so maybe the higher cadence/turnover results in more power/speed?? I know, probably talking out of my azz here, but I have always found a higher cadence to be more efficient and is how I've always ridden/run. Edited by Daremo 2005-11-03 2:26 PM
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