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I can't believe all this Armstrong high cadence rhetoric is still being peddled. He TT'd in the 100 and up range, but certainly wasn't alone in that. His climbing cadence was lower, and there's plenty of footage where even Ullrich is pedalling faster up a climb.
Certainly in the compact-cum-biological-passport era, cadences may have slightly increased for seated climbing, but that's more a knock-on effect of going more slowly, and the decreased demand for oxygen. The EPO lot were belting it up there, and lower cadences in that context would've kept breathing under control.
And anyway, haven't you lot heard of Charly Gaul? The idea of pedalling rather than pushing on a climb isn't a contemporary notion.