Turbo Trainer Advice

Boom! 12w gain for me too earlier. Although need to verify via a TTE test tomorrow or Monday.

A what now...?
Quite happy considering I’ve done very little since last summer. Long way to go to get back to that mind :-)

375w, would normally be worried about being able to do any training with that number setting the zones, but am 6 months into TR properly and every jump has corresponded to sessions that are manageable.

That said, Build next with a lot more 30-45min intervals :(

Great stuff!
Yeah know the feeling, I should be ok for awhile.

I guess I've missed the boat for getting any kind of 'smart' turbo in the near future?

If you can wait an hour or two I’ll find the mudguards I have knocking around and see if I could place it on the bike I’ve got on the suito

Not selling my Computrainer is looking pretty smart now. Mock away, suckers.

The PDW metal mudguards fit over the trainer okay. It’ll depend on your frame and guards I guess tho

Is this the dreaded noise of Death of a Wahoo??

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Without having a turbo (well, I've got a really old school one somewhere but no real space to set it up) I wish I had a Kickr/Wattbike/Peloton/etc and I'd be on it to keep fitness up.

If I actually had one I'd be staring at it each day and thinking "meh, tomorrow".

2-4 week lead time for a peloton, and you can get it on 0% finance (although it's £56/month for 3 years, and that doesn't include the £39/month for the online classes).

Reckon there will be a lot of 2nd hand DD trainers on the market whenever this lockdown ends...

True, probably not worth worrying about. I'm still working as much as I ever was, and I can barely manage 20 mins a day yoga, not to mention allotment/garden/design projects. I never was very fast anyway so nothing to lose.

Is the lever meant to fit entirely in this indentation on my cycleops trainer? Feels like it would need considerable force.

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Nah it's fine

thanks

That sounds more like shoddy indexing :P

Haha it seems to be related to the belt part...? Any suggestions?

You also need to let it coast. Just uploaded this so you can compare.

This was mine:

https://youtu.be/zDBUFZ4rzPY

I’ll do another tomorrow.
Did they just agree a replacement with the video?

and some other stuff like serial numbers, purchase receipt. There's a reporting page on their website. Log a call, provide details, they examine and replace if it's the same fault I guess.

Does it also happen when coasting like my vid?

I think so but I’ll double check

Advice needed; a mate and I have decided to have a six stage virtual race, as we are quite evenly matched, effectively 6 time trials. Over a variety of courses no more than an hour.
I’m 75kgs and ftp of 255
He is 65kgs and ftp of 225
I’m guessing I should have slight advantage on flatter courses and he over hillier ones.

Any suggestions for tactics?
Also what sort of assumptions should I make as to how much power I should be able to average for 20 mins 30 mins 45 mins etc.

Assuming this is Zwift, every race starts with a mandatory 3-5’ vo2 max effort before everyone holds on for dear life. To keep things authentic I’d start with that.

No idea what your PD curve days you can maintain over 15, 20, 30 etc. You’ll have to find out.

If you have a decent amount of data on strava you can sign up to intervals.icu and it’ll show you power curves and PBs for seasons / years.

It’s Bkool.

I appreciate there will be some personal differences but wonder if there was a rough rule of thumb.
Or if I should go to a set figure for climbs or I dunno...