'When it comes to increasing your speed on the bike, what you're actually trying to do is increase your ability to produce power, both aerobically — for time trial type efforts and climbing — and anaerobically, for sprinting. In mathematical terms, power is equal to force multiplied by velocity, which means that if you want to produce more power you have to be able to pedal faster in the same size gear, pedal at the same rate in a bigger gear, or, in a perfect world, pedal faster in a bigger gear...' More
