Yowamushi Pedal - Episode 3
Otaku power, on a properly adjusted bike seat, gets second place. 8 kg bike against 20 kg bike is still a problem, right? Cadence can only take you so far... far enough to Akihabara!
Did you really think Onoda was going to win that climbing race? Heh, of course not. Then this show would have turned into an anime club anime, instead of bicycle club anime. The race was a lot closer than it should have been because Onoda finally got his seat put to the right height, and Imaizumi almost chunked it on a gap in a grate. Guh, I hate those things. Although, if Onoda hadn't stopped on 15% grade and had to start up again, who knows? That's bike racing. So, Imaizumi doesn't join the anime club, which still needs to be reinstated anyway, but he does offer to help get members. Nice guy after all, huh?
That ends our introduction to the show. We've met the big three, seen a few of the secondary characters, but now it's time to deal with what this show is really about: meeting other nerds in Akihabara. What? No, no, no, other bike nerds. This is a sports club anime, so we need to have seniors, juniors, and newbies, which means new character introductions. Sadly, this also means there will be no anime club at the high school. That's okay for Onoda, if there's one more otaku in cycling the club.
This week's cycling porn is all about cadence, really fast cadence.
It turns out that Onoda has an insanely fast cadence to go so fast on his mommy bike. Somewhere along the line, in addition to never changing his seat to match his growing legs, his parents also put a smaller chain ring on his bike to try to slow him down. Uh, didn't work. Imaizumi wanted to see this leg churning action close up, which is why he challenged Onoda. Onoda's pedaling style seems to match Chris Froome's climbing style, although I don't know how our current Tour de France champion would do on a 44 pound bike.
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