10 Second Anime - Yowamushi Pedal - Episode 7

Yowamushi Pedal - Episode 7

Onoda on a road bike goes fast. The captain says to catch the front two, you need to pedal faster. Onoda says okay. Imaizumi and Naruko meet their coach.

Once Onoda got on that lugged chromoly (steel with chrome and molybdenum alloy) bike, he quickly dispatches the three other first-years up ahead, and some poseur trying to impress a girl at a rest stop. Well, he had a nice Cannondale.  He was explaining to the girl with the collapsible bike that he knew the first two kids were serious because they had bike shorts on, the next three had regular shorts on. I don't know about that, though, because it looks like ask-me-anything Sugimoto had some black bike shorts on. Maybe that poseur meant racing bibs.

Anyway, Onoda is now in third doing about a 90 rpm cadence on a medium climb. In the van, their ace climber says that he's doing pretty good for a beginner, but he's not going to catch Imaizumi and Naruko. The captain hands Onoda his forgotten water bottle and tells him, he's not going to catch Imaizumi and Naruko. Onoda deflates. Kinjou continues, that he can burn himself out and might need to be picked up by the broom wagon at the top of the climb. Kinjou then tells him he's now third place on the road, which makes him extremely happy. He's never been placed that high in anything before. He can finish the race at this pace, but he won't join Imaizumi and Naruko at the end. The captain then says he can choose, finish third or race with the other two. Onoda pauses only for a beat, and says he'll join his friends. Kinjou says "Good, you'll need to raise your cadence 30 rpm." The other three kids in the van react. The ace climber thought he only needed to do another 10 to catch. Onoda responds, and just churns his legs faster.

Meanwhile, up the road, Imaizumi and Naruko are marking each other, checking out their strengths, doing about 85 rpm. They pass some fat white guy cheering them on, but that guy keeps tripping and they stop to help him up. Again, stopping their bikes for a reason instead of staring up into the sky, and leaning their bikes against the guardrail, like normal cyclists. Those little things impress me. The foreigner then tells each of them to work on some part of their pedal stroke, and that they better hurry and get back on their bikes. Kinjou had just called him saying one little kid is gaining on them. They realize they're talking to the cycling club's coach, and that somehow Onoda is blazing towards them. They look back and hear the support vehicle approaching!

This week's cycling porn is a bit catch-all.

We've got the poseur talking about racing bibs, we've got a nice red Cannondale with the big bore downtube from a few years back, we've got a Park Tools Allen wrench set, we've got Onoda's flat pedals smacking the ground on tight turns, we've got small ring cadence at 120 rpm on a 6% grade, and we've got a Scott and a Pinarello leaning up against a guardrail. Man, increasing your cadence by 30 rpm sitting down is Chris Froome style. Imagine what Onoda could do if he could pull up on the pedals too!