Dennis
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Seeing as my current speed and distance are likely less than everyone here, take this with a grain of salt. Even on my R54 recumbent with overseat steering I probably was a bit of a masher. I'd pull on the handle bar at the same time I'm pushing with the leg. I don't know if had any benefit or was just a hold over from the kind of motion a DF rider is doing in a stand up sprint. Eventually the steering column of the R54 gave up on me. On the road trike I noticed the pedal steer a lot on the first couple rides, but it quickly smoothed out. I think learning that I don't need to be tugging on the under seat steering was important. Occasionally I "over-revved." In those cases where I tried to increase RPM to much or wasn't in a gear that gave me some resistance my stroke was jerky and that showed in pedal steer. I can on occasion sprint (such as crossing a busy intersection) at 120-130 RPM and not notice pedal steer as long as I was still using that power to accelerate. I'm not effecient enough to keep RPM going for any duration though. I'm more typically in the 90-105 rpm range. With only occasional intervals where I'm pushing into a sprint RPM. When I'm thinking about it I usually call these calf sprints, as they feel like they force a lot more calf muscle participation in the stroke. circles, circles, little tiny circles faster and faster they go left-right, push-pull, lift-kick faster and faster they go
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