You got me curious. I just dug out my old bike computer and fitted it to my polo bike.
Using the max speed data and knowing my ratio I'll be able to figure out what kinda of cadence im hitting and whether is worth looking into different ratios.
top speed during polo?
how often do you think polo players reach top speed? at what cadence/rpm should players reach top speed? what is the best gear ratio for competitive polo based on your answer to these two questions?
that's awesome...it'll be interesting to see what your max speed and max cadence are on average...does it store your max speed reached and your max rpm? damn, I wish I still had mine...
Stores max speed. Doesnt have a cadence function, but I can work that out manually.
Will gather data this week and post back.
I just got back from polo and found this discussion. One of our players turned up to polo today with his computer mounted to see how far he rode per game (one epic match was 1.6km) I'll see if he has the other data and report back.
74 mph bitches!
i run 28x18 on 26x2.35/60 tires and i almost never wind out on tennis courts...hockey courts are a different story. i'm interested in what other people think about their gear ratios and what they would experiment with if they could try any sizes they wanted. my gear ratio breakdown is 28 divided by 18 which is 1.55 which multiplied by my actual wheel circumference is 323.55...spinning at 90 i'm at 11 mph and at 120 i'm at 14.7. how often do i really need to be going 15 mph on a polo court? isn't acceleration to the ball way more important? i think smaller gear ratios would actually speed up the action in polo because there would be a lot more bursts and sprints all over the court...like mini-breakaways.