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I'm messing up Jonathan's cadence look at this I'd say a lot of people in fact

I've even seen on SoundCloud where this podcast you can find on SoundCloud

People can leave comments and specific times and it kind of like attaches to that time and a lot of people laugh

It whenever you just say hi and that one time you say something different than hi they pointed out so I'm sure we're getting comments in SoundCloud right now

We're going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today

You can submit them at trainer road dot com slash podcast, but before that I need to clarify something

I made a boo boo a few episodes back and I was saying the word one Jonathan

Oh, we make many

But I was saying subcompact and what I should have been saying was mid compact here's the context

So basically you have standard chain rings that means standard size. That's 5236

No standards 5339

5339 there's another one just chalk them up people so 5339 then after that you go to down the next step is a mid-compact

That mid-compact is a 5236

Then you go to a compact just a normal one. That's a 5034 and then subcompact

Which is the phrasing I was using to describe mid compact subcompact is actually 40 48 32 or lower

I can't imagine why this gets confusing. Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, so that's actually 48 32 or lower which

There's a whole lot of implications in terms of what you have to do to your drive train to use those

But so my new road bike I'm gonna have a mid-compact Chad. What do you ride standard?

John

I'm a 5034 so I run the compact and

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