What happened to answering the person's question?

Well Gene, sometimes questions are unanswerable, sometimes they suggest that the asker has a need for information but didn't know how to ask, sometimes the questions appear to be smart alec questions deserving of smart alec answers. Looking through your question history, you've touched on all three categories.

RPM? Worthless in the field? Hardly! Human cyclists generate maximum horsepower between 90-105 rpm, a fact I've had personally and painfully demonstrated on an ergometer in Gatorade's basement labs, as well as decades of racing. Pushing too big a gear (low rpm) or trying to spin faster (high rpm) wastes your limited resources, ie, you won't get where you're going as quickly and efficiently as you might have. If you don't race or have any reason to care about efficient pedaling, that's fine, but it doesn't change the facts. My wife isn't in very good shape, and doesn't ride all that much, but she can stay with much better, more fit cyclists on climbs because she understand shifting to stay in her power band.

Calorie burn? There are no simple portable devices that actually MEASURE calories burned. Heart rate monitors or bike computers that purport to indicate calories burned make guesstimates based on generic data culled from tests on thousands of athletes. Not very accurate unless you spent a lot of time in a lab correlating your personal heartrate curve vs your VO2 vs your digestive efficiency and diet.

Burning fuel/food/calories requires oxygen. In general, higher heartrate = more oxygen transferred = more calories burned.

Ambient temperature doesn't need to be considered because it doesn't matter whether the oxygen carried by your cardiovascular system is used to generate power at the pedal or body heat.

There are other methods to estimate calories burned per mile, but you didn't mention any specifics, so I can't comment. Some things to think about:

1. the difference in fuel mileage (calorie burn) resulting from baggy jacket vs. snug, aerodynamic cycling wear will be larger than that caused by ambient temperature.

2. The difference between riding on the brake hoods vs drops or aerobars will be larger than the ambient temperature factor.

I could go on all day.

Why ask a question when you already formed an opinion like this one ?

Where does this 70 to 90 rpm grbage come from?

I pedal to maintain a specific speed, not to follow some fool around who has no idea where, when, or how I am riding. A big part of the attraction for me in cycling is that I can do it my way. By the way, I've been doing it for nearly 13 years on a daily basis at least 10 miles per day in snow, sleet, rain, fog, sun, with a temperature range of 0 to 105 degrees F in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Do not even think about telling me that I am doing it wrong. I know better and you would to, if you had the grit to stay with me.

Less dogma more riding, I ain't interested in staying with the pack.

That is more of a rant then a question.

There's a loophole that allows blocked customers to reply your query. You simply go on to Y/A open the query and then signal in and the blocked user can provide an reply. It is time Yahoo did anything about this, however individuals will constantly to find a further way that's existence.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Meaning: Don't persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can't cope, you should leave the work to someone who can.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-out-of-the-...

"Where does this 70 to 90 rpm grbage come from?" It comes from experts on the subject. Not those who can't even spell a simple word like "garbage" - not "grbage".

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtkRc...

Cadence

Every cyclist has an ideal "cadence" (pedaling speed), and an ideal amount of resistance from the pedals. When you are pedaling at your ideal cadence, you are putting out the greatest amount of power that you are able to sustain efficiently. You select your cadence by shifting gears. The gear needed to allow your "ideal" cadence will depend on the slope of the road, the wind conditions, and your own condition at any given time.

http://sheldonbrown.com/gears.html

Cadence The speed at which the pedals turn, measured in Revolutions Per Minute. Inexperienced cyclists tend to ride in higher gears than they should, pedaling at a slower cadence.

Most experienced cyclists pedal at cadences in the range of 70-90 RPM. This puts less strain on the joints, particularly the knees. Racing cyclists often use even higher cadences for bursts of acceleration.

http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ca-g.html#cadence

Find a person (living or dead) that knows more about cycling & the proper way to do it than the late Sheldon Brown. Go on... I dare you.

And I am the lucky one that got the 10 points, oh my! WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!! 10 points yeah.

And I thought that the question was derisive, insulting, foolish, arrogant, degrading, designed to stroke your own ego, and meaningless, asked by some deranged mentally disturbed individual that goes around life thinking he is Y!A over-answerer.

I saw that the question was not asked to gain information but to express your own opinion and that no learning was to come out of it. That is why I told you to keep doing what you are doing, you are just "perfect". A perfect form of troll.

Edit: Can I keep the points or do you want them back?

If you don't like the answers you get here, there's lots of other cycling forums on the Internet. And if you know so much, how about answering a few questions instead of posting what's nothing more than a long rant.

oh dear

wahh

your other ''question'' was just a bunch of stuff copied from somewhere else

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