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Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast: Lessons from the White Rim Trail
When Ignoring Good Advice Costs You Everything
Imagine watching four riders push dead e-bikes through deep sand while you cruise past with battery to spare. That is exactly what happened on the White Rim Trail in Moab, Utah, and it contains a lesson worth hearing.
Brad Draper, host of The Hard Choice podcast, rode eighty miles over two days through stunning canyonlands terrain, battling fifty-mile-per-hour headwinds. He warned his group to maintain a high cadence, keep speeds between ten and thirteen miles per hour, and resist maxing out their assist levels. Four riders ignored him…
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