Road bike recommendations

Ha. Its a suptle effect, and thats being generous.

** I had a cadence average of < 70 when I started giving a shit about such things**. This wasnt great for maintaing a smooth pedalling action. Pushing this up to 85 has made me far more effecient. The point was that the oval rings slightly worsened my stroke when low cadence mashing, and subsequently made it slightly more smooth when I improved my cadence. So the improvement curve was slighly steeper.

I assume Wiggo could pedal his bicycle proper before using them though.

I did have a thought while doing climbing intervals with a friend using the same cassette, and compact cranks. But round rings. When moving from seated to standing he shifts 2 sprockets. On my oval rings I only shift 1.

thats probably all bullshit.

But I'm not opposed to spending out on cool looking components. So meh.

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The problem with all this is you starting observing something and then made changes to your kit. The mere fact you started to care about your cadence would've changed your cadence. Changing to oval rings or drinking carrot juice or praying to a new god might all have magically altered your cadence or done nothing but you can't prove it either way because you introduced multiple changes to your riding at once.

How many gears two people might change is irrelevant. Everyone settles into their preferred cadence for a given effort. This can be trained higher or lower but it's individual and nothing can be gleaned from it other than you prefer different gears for a particular piece of road.

tl;dr

snake oil