Turbo Trainer Advice

Just get cycleops and use speed. Ignore the watts, it's irrelevant.

Well turbo trainer speed is pretty irrelevant sounding to a noob like me. But I get the point. No use in extrapolating data, just to change the units.

I guess i want to hit 27kph, at 80rpm for the most part. Then I'm in good shape for the climb. Simples.

yes, you're obliged to say that - you spent the money. As far as I'm concerned - ignorance is bliss...

This is true of everything though. Stuff gets more expensive with ever decreasing real world improvement. Somewhere on this curve the purchase desire is over shadowed by wallet pain.

I definitly dont want an adjustable magnetic one though. Having gears is enough to think about for me.

Here's a mind-bogglingly dull link to an hour of zone 2 work on the turbo that I did yesterday.

What you can see there is a ten minute warm-up followed by a 50 minute low intensity spin.

The wattage and speed are linked for the duration of the 50 minutes- 17mph @ 219 watts.

So, as BMMF says, once you know what speed is what wattage you can use that to train to.

Bugger all use out on the road of course, however.

This is exactly what I want to do. A fluid trainer seems the least complicated way of doing this.

I like the idea of the powercal for riding. I'm not a great user of realtime data TBH. Frankly ride time is precious. I'd rather look at trees. But going over ride data in the evening, is pretty interesting, and has really improved my cycling. The one reason I might wear a PowerCal for turbo work. Would be to make looking back at training sessions together with rides, nice and simple.