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Lactate threshold in cycling: training and advantages

by Rotor Bike Components | Nov 27, 2019 | News & Articles, Road, Tips & Tricks, Triathlon, Uncategorised

In cycling nowadays, apart from knowing how to choose your bike components and accessories, it’s essential to train endurance and strength. This is why it’s important to know about and work on our lactic threshold. What is lactic threshold? Technically, lactic...

Strength training for cyclists

by Rotor Bike Components | Oct 31, 2019 | News & Articles, Tips & Tricks

Strength is a key factor in the world of cycling. Many believe you have to lose weight to perform better, but without adequate strength training, it will be impossible to respond to changes in pace and be the fastest. Cyclists tend to put strength training on the back...

Optimum Chainring Position – OCP

by Rotor Bike Components | Oct 16, 2019 | News & Articles, Tips & Tricks

Today we are going to talk about a concept that has revolutionised the customisation of oval chainrings: Optimum Chainring Position or OCP, an oval chainring technology exclusive to ROTOR that allows you to adapt your Q rings to your pedalling style. Offering multiple...

Leg recovery in cycling: as important as training

by Rotor Bike Components | Oct 9, 2019 | News & Articles, Tips & Tricks

Luckily, for some years now, amateur sports communities have been paying special attention to a key element for our health and in improving physical performance: recovery. Along with the revolution brought about by the use of technologies such as power meters for...

Basic first aid in cycling

by Rotor Bike Components | Sep 25, 2019 | News & Articles, Tips & Tricks

We’ve written recently about the essential bicycle tool kit to carry in route and about common cycling aches and pains and what to do about them, and now we would like to close our care and maintenance series for cyclists with this post. Here we will give you basic...

What cadence or rpm means in terms of cycling

by Rotor Bike Components | Sep 11, 2019 | News & Articles, Tips & Tricks

For context, in the world of cycling the term “cadence” can be defined as the revolutions per minute (rpm) of the cranks as a consequence of our pedalling.In other words, it is what we perceive as the speed at which a cyclist is pedalling, where we can find...