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Ooh that's a nice feature. I've had no motivation doing a ramp test lately, so I've missed it before. I used a conservative FTP guestimate going back to TR, and the AI detection was +3W. Seems credible, and I'm definitely fine not doing ramp tests.

Actually I just finished it the other day. I didn't want to check out any reviews beforehand, still haven't actually. But personally I liked it. Genuinely felt like a Monkey Island game. I'd happily recommend it if you like old school graphic adventure games.

I've been thinking of picking up Grim Fandango on switch in near future, and I think there were also a few Sam & Max games.

Thanks for the strength training suggestion, I'll definitely look into it.

[It feels pretty obvious that I'm lacking strength vs. overall aerobic fitness, but I assumed that would be the case starting out.]

I've started going running for the past month, and I just did my first ever metric 10k, in just under an hour. Not blazingly fast, obviously, but I'm still pretty chuffed. I've been doing reasonable training volume on bike this year, and I feel that definitely translates to some extent (I expect the weight loss helps, too).

Good point, I'll need try this out. At least Trainer Day mentions sending workouts to Garmin.

Edit. Ummm... not sure why I haven't looked into Trainer Day before. Seems like it does pretty much exactly what I want.

Thanks. Not sure I got this right, but these "planned workouts" are strictly an elemnt feature? Not immediate help to me if so, but good to have another option to consider.

Been using Zwift lately, but I'm basically just doing my own simple ERG workouts, and paying 15€/month largely for the crummy scenery is starting to get maybe a bit tired.

Return to Monkey Island coming out on September 19 \o/

Thank you guys.

There may be a tiny bit of attempted hulsroyproofing in the photo selection. I joke, but some #bdhu might be beneficial.

No updates as such, just chuffed I managed to do my first long rides in ages over the Midsummer holidays. And I did get to swim in the river, go to the sauna and drink a few AF beers, so mandatory bits sorted as well :-) [No bonfires though, it's been too dry.]

Obviously the low-trail lark isn't really fashionable anymore, but regardless the bike just handles really well IMO. Even pulled off an improbable save making a careless turn at the base of a sandy descent. Seems like the brake update has also been a genuine improvement.

Fair point on the woofer size, trying to think a bit about future use as well. I have my old 8030As doing nothing at the moment, but maybe that'd be spoiling the brats :^)

Does anyone have any experience with the cheap Presonus active speakers? I'm thinking of getting a pair of Eris E3.5 (possibly with BT) for the kids' room, but I guess I'm a bit skeptical about the price bracket in general -- not that I particularly want to spend more.

7 day average weight is dipping under 80kg (down from around 90kg), which means I'm back at where I was 20 odd years ago. Pretty happy with that.

Are there any decent non-subscription based smart trainer ERG workout players for android? No ads, happy to pay with money. I'm using trainer road, but just as a workout library + player it feels a bit expensive.

I think a player app, scripting my own workouts, recording with garmin and looking at numbers and curves in intervals.icu would work just fine for me. Golden cheetah has an ERG mode workout player, but I had massive issues with bluetooth pairing, and using a phone would anyway be more convenient.

Very nice. I do like how the 105 cranks look on this.

Great bike, and the bag looks amazing.

I've got the Manly Comrade slip joint in the same colour, very good VFM I think (and a great name :-). I was just recently looking at their smallest fixed blade knife for general around the house use, but ended up getting a traditional style puukko instead.

I thought this thread was any bikes as long as they don't have mudguards o_O

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Thanks for the suggestion. Could actually be just the time to grab something new (I'm slowly starting to have had enough of Skyrim), will have a look.

Ooh, nice. The og Monkey Islands definitely made a lasting impression. Would be fun to know what year I played them originally -- must have been a few years after the initial release(s).

I played Thimbleweed Park last year. I thought it was ok rather than great, but overall still pretty fun.

Nah. I'm so grey and boring that I think I can get away with some colour occasionally.

Ta! I'm genuinely chuffed, top €/enjoyment ratio IMO.

First new watch for me in a while :-p

I've got xiaomi body composition scales (v2 apparently). Seems to give repeatable results. AFAIK you need an app to get other results besides the weight. I haven't installed the official app, instead I'm using OpenScales on android. The app's quite clunky, but does the job. Btw, the scales supposedly measure also visceral fat, but for me the plot aligns 1:1 with my weight curve, so I'm pretty sceptical about that. Overall body fat reading behaves differently, so I trust it more.

I'm down to around 84kg from 90kg this year. My adult starting weight was 80kg, and I've gone steadily up to 90kg in the past 20 odd years. This is pretty much the first time ever that I've lost any noticeable amount of weight. I attribute it mostly to training -- I've done 6-8 hours a week on the turbo since I got it 2 months ago, while eating about the same. I did swap my beer intake to non-alcohol variety last autumn. I'm not sure how sustainable the current amount of workout will be, but so far I'm enjoying it, particularly having done fuck all in the past two years whilst WFH.

I use cheap xiaomi scales, measure in the morning and look mainly at weekly averages. No idea how accurate or meaningful the body composition data is.