Fear of the Gear

Posted on Sep 7, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

The following is a piece I wrote for the Cincinnati Cycle Club newsletter.  You can access the site by clicking here. 

Fear of the Gear

You are in a pace-line.  Nice steady tempo going.  You are doing your turns at the front and dropping back to take shelter and get a break.  All of a sudden, a gap opens, might be your fault, might not be.  But now you have to close that gap and quickly!  How do you do that?

 One of the hardest things to teach yourself on the bike is the art of spinning.   In the July article