Phil44

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• Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 6 days

  

  As a CAD designer, this shouts "I'll just throw this rough volume around the internal components for now, and come back to smoothing it out and making it ergonomic / look good later".

  Except they never came back to it.

• GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 weeks, 4 days

  

  DC's just gone up. https://youtu.be/LPbvpFmFKu4
  

  EDIT: after watching this... yeah, it's a bit shit.

• Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

  in Rides & Races • 3 months, 1 week

  

  Is it even true that your power output in TT position can ever equal your output on hoods or in drops? I don't think that's something I've ever heard or read, so not something I've been chasing. Just accepted.

  I figured that yes... there's a drop in power output, but you're still working as hard as you would be if out of position. So by improving your power in position; you're actually improving your fitness, and thus your out of position power ftp improves.

  Wouldn't ones power capability in TT position be more a function of position? Hip angle, position over BB, comfort etc.

  But what you loose in power through the bike, you gain back twice over (or more) in aerodynamics. So it's well worth the 10-15% drop.

• GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 months, 3 weeks

  

  Probably something in that... I could imagine the majority of the developers being runners, for which 5k is a pretty standard interval length.

• GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 months, 3 weeks

  

  Presumably you've got an auto-lap set for every 10miles.

  Activity Profiles > Alerts and Prompts > Lap > Autolap OFF

• Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

  in Bikes & Bits • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  Quite right, suitably admonished.

  Thanks.

• Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

  in Bikes & Bits • 5 months, 3 weeks

  

  There's a chap on here that does splendid di2 component repairs is there not?

  Can anyone remember their name?

• Pro-cycling thread

  in Rides & Races • 6 months

  

  "I don’t want to go and just get another tracksuit. I’ve got four tracksuits already – I don’t need another one."

  He seems to be taking it well.

• GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 6 months, 2 weeks

  

  Is there any way to adjust intensity mid workout in a similar way on either of these devices?

  Yes... at least there is on my Garmin 840, so I assume it must be possible on other devices).

  I have a profile for the indoor turbo bike (created from the INDOOR template) that is set to connect to my smart trainer. Selecting that profile from the list when starting an activity throws up a menu to select stuff like FREE RIDE, SET DIFFICULTY, SET GRADE, TARGET POWER etc. I select that last one, input my target power, and pedal away. Once on top of the gear, it's starts tuning the resistance.

  It's basically ERG mode via the Garmin. I've found it's not quite as responsive as Zwift's control, and the tolerance range it allows before it adjusts the power is wider... but it works well enough. You may even find yourself offset from you target (eg you set 200W, but are working consistently at 210W), but just factor that in.

  That difficulty offset that Zwift is really useful isn't it? The alternatives to Zwift I've tried recently didn't have it (really only Whoosh tbh), hence why I experimented with using the garmin to control ERG mode. Interested to know if its in any of the others (indievelo, rouvy).

• Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

  in Bikes & Bits • 6 months, 3 weeks

  

  This stem looks the nuts, with that flat top surface all the way to the front. Looks so much cleaner than the screw boss bumps on pretty much every other stem.

  I've never understood why other stem manufacturers don't do something similar.