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Bicycling's gear and cycling experts talk about an overlooked but important cycling skill: your pedal stroke and how it affects everything from comfort to speed to power.

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00:00I didn't think about how little I thought about pedal stroke until I read a story we

00:04have about pedal stroke efficiency.

00:06I have to ask the man with the perfect pedal stroke, what's your drills?

00:10So counter-intuitively, one of the best ways to get good at doing something fast is to

00:15do it slow.

00:17So I like to do low cadence drills.

00:19I'm a data nerd so like the way I think about pedal stroke is how much data there's in it.

00:24Recently I got a pedal disc power meter and it can tell me to the single degree where

00:29I'm making and not making power in each individual pedal stroke, which is arguably too much data

00:35for anyone.

00:36But if you want to know everything there is to know about pedal stroke, it's definitely

00:40in this story.

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