Steve,

It's all about time in the "saddle" as we say. Sounds like you have a handle on
it with using higher RPM's. It's best not to push to hard until you develop
your shoulder and back muscles.
If you start getting shoulder pain you are pushing to hard. The other thing is
Rome wasn't built in a day.

As gearing goes find a comfortable RPM and use it as much as possible by
continually shifting to maintain that smo-oth cadence. WE all grunt up the
steep hills at a few miles an hour, but the uphills are about getting to the top
to ride down as fast as possible. Your speed climbing will increase.

Always try to remember to shift down when coming to a stop. Most new riders
don't shift down low enough to restart from their stops. That's where the
explosiveness starts and run through the gears. Time in the saddle, there is no
substitute for training.
12MPH is good. You will get faster.

I recommend you get a Air sound Horn and install it on your bike. Look it up on
the Internet, if you want one I have them very inexpensive
Mine has saved my butt and yesterday saved me and my riding buddy from getting
run over.
And we both have flags and my pole has a 12X14 American Flag also attached.

If you have some able bodied friends to ride with do it. They may be small
enough for you to draft. The best though is to find a riding buddy or two with
hand-cycles.

Take a look at the Denver Post Web site and tab Ride the Rockies. We had 10
adaptive cyclists on the ride last year and if you want to ride with us we can
get you a spot. Let me know.

Keep the rubber side down,
Mark
www.handbikeamerica.com


Steve <steveponedal@...> wrote:
Wow,

Coasting on a downhill, I hit 19 mph. Otherwise I can get into the
12mph range. That is usually in gear 14 to 15. I haven't used gears 19
through 27 much because I usually ride through the city streets and
can be subject to lots of stops and starts. I am also trrying to crank
at a much higher cadence.

I am going to do a 10K in a couple of weeks just to ride a closed
course in the higher gear range. I am going to try to keep my speed
above 12mph.

What kind of training do people do to get starting line explosiveness?

Steve





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