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I didn't feel like the base of my kickr core was particularly stable so I clamped it to a board with some leveling feet. Plus I put weights on the board. Solid and stays in place. Plus the floor is a little crooked and the trainer flexes a bit to the right so being able to fine tune that is nice. and here is a power curve from intervals.icu. Although it only has the last two winters. I like to think I can do better when i'm riding outside and racing and stuff. 
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I have a Saris H3 and mainly use trainer road for indoor riding. I also have a stages single sided crank power meter and a garmin. With both calibrated fairly regularly, I appear to have a 40 or 50 watt ftp differential between indoor and outdoor riding. Haven’t done an ftp test outside, but averaging 70 W higher than my trainerroad ftp tests seems odd. And that disconnect makes Strava (with heartrate monitor and my ftp entered) report my rides as ~65% zone 7 or something. Anyone else have this problem?
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I can average about 30w higher outdoors. I attribute this largely to lack of practice indoors, and lack of effective cooling. The latter makes a huge difference. I don't use any training features on strava so I have no idea if it fucks up the zones.
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My indoor and outdoor numbers are close with indoors being a little higher because, I'm assuming: 1) Less external stimuli to bump my HR up (bad air quality, pollen, cars, bumpy road surfaces, pack riding, random hazards, etc.) 2) Better environmental control indoors with lots of fans and chillier temps. I ride a shitload indoors though and people who only use their indoor trainers sporadically probably have only partial adaptation...
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I'm curious about opinions on bike frame sizes. I'm about to buy a Scott Sub Cross bike, I'm 175cm and the calculators, including Scott's own show that M size is the best fit for me with L being quite close by. I just tried both sizes and M felt just like my current bike while L felt way more relaxed position wise. How do I tell when a frame is too big for me? Should I be concerned about picking L for any reason when calculators said M is the size for me? It's not very exact science is it? Sininu fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mar 18, 2022 08:04
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 First half of last year, vs this year. Don't have a bad injury folks, it fucks up your power numbers! Sininu posted:I'm curious about opinions on bike frame sizes. I'm about to buy a Scott Sub Cross bike, I'm 175cm and the calculators, including Scott's own show that M size is the best fit for me with L being quite close by. This is the indoor thread, you probably want the general bike thread here. That being said, have you had a bike fit? There is a lot you can do to adjust where the contact points are on a bike, it's not just set saddle and go.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:
Oops! My mistake. I just read bicycles and entered the thread...
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Don't have a bad 
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Mar 18, 2022 17:07
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 This year's fitness is a struggle, but I'm happy to hold on to what I got so far.
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Burnout squad  
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If I trusted my garmin to actually work all the way my line would be super long post LEL this summer
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 Woof, solid 45w down on ftp from last year. Worst part is, I don't think it's wrong. 
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Mar 18, 2022 22:15
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eh he heh he mFTP 276W.
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Very slow start to this year for me too
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slowly crawling back from nearly 3 months off, catching little wisps of my old fitness levels  
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Jackson Polack posted:I bought the drat thing. For aussie posters there’s a 20% off sale for wahoo trainers on ozbargain at the moment. Got a 20% sale on a Kickr Bike this week and just finished setting it up a few minutes ago. Wasn't through ozbargain, but through a local Melbourne chain that was having a storewide 20% sale. I know the new freshness in this thread seems to be the Stages SB20, but I thought 20% was a hell of a deal and I was considering picking one up at full price in a few months when our Melbourne Winter sets in, so this was an early bargain. I've been lurking in this thread for months in anticipation... Haven't had a real spin on it yet, but I'm very impressed so far with the build quality and setup process.
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 Joined a new, more serious cycling club in January, and have been getting much faster since, though sadly not much lighter.
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The big chain store for bikes in my city is all out of 11-speed road bikes with dropbar handles in my size at every location. The sales rep emailed me a link to a facebook marketplace listing for a Scott Solace 20 with rim brakes. Can any one offer any guidance on whether this is good value. He dropped the price further in conversation to 1500$ . Otherwise there was plenty of bikes with just the flat handle in my size with disc brakes and the right cassette size in store. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1950626015128426/ If Im mostly using it with a kickr trainer (arrived today! wahoo!) Does the rim brakes make it harder to assemble and dissassemble? Any red flags about this bike in particular?
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Jackson Polack posted:The big chain store for bikes in my city is all out of 11-speed road bikes with dropbar handles in my size at every location. The sales rep emailed me a link to a facebook marketplace listing for a Scott Solace 20 with rim brakes. Can any one offer any guidance on whether this is good value. He dropped the price further in conversation to 1500$ . Otherwise there was plenty of bikes with just the flat handle in my size with disc brakes and the right cassette size in store. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1950626015128426/ Rim-brake bikes are probably easier to place on a direct-drive trainer because the caliper is completely out of the way of the hub axle and cassette.
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Crumps Brother posted:If you scrub backwards you'll lose everything you did up to that point. Ask me how I know this!
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Did the stupid zwift mountain climb. Ended the ride. I wanted a cool down so I did a putter around London or whatever. Loaded that up too. Oh, my 650m climbing effort didn't bother uploading to loving Strava but the 40m elevation in a 15 minute London ride did. How about gently caress you zwift/Strava 
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Did the stupid zwift mountain climb. Ended the ride. Download it off strava and upload it manually?
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Did the stupid zwift mountain climb. Ended the ride. Uploading Zwift Activities Manually If your activity has not automatically uploaded to your Strava account, you can still upload it manually. From a computer Navigate to zwift.com/feed and click on Just Me. Find your missing activity and view the activity page. Click on the Gear Icon (Activity Settings) and under Fit File download the activity file. Open this page on the Strava website, click Choose Files and select the FIT file. From a mobile device (requires iOS10 and cloud storage service like iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive). Navigate to my.Zwift.com in a mobile browser and log into your Zwift account. Click the Download link under the activity you'd like to upload. Follow the prompts to save the file to your preferred cloud-based service (requires cloud service storage such as iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive). Open a new browser tab and navigate to https://www.strava.com/upload/select. Tap Choose File, choose the cloud service where you saved the file and select the FIT file.
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Hi. I have a wahoo kickr core and I felt like I was always topped out in my gears on crit city races in zwift (2x9 kona rove DL). I only train in zwift but I maxed out the wheel circumference setting through the wahoo app (from 2.06 m to 2.65 m) because I had read that it essentially "gave more gears" so I'm not always maxed out on gears when racing. Does this affect power output or speed in zwift? Aka give me an unfair advantage? I've read that it doesn't and I can't think of how it would. It feels sorta like an actual difficulty slider has been turned up(not the silly zwift one) for me where I mash a little more now and spin less Buuuut I also don't want to be a cheating turd. Thoughts?
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Flipgrip posted:Hi. It most certainly does not affect power output. Power output is tied directly to actual flywheel acceleration and speed.
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Flipgrip posted:Hi. This is a common fix that people do with Kickrs, especially when they have stuff like MTB gearing, and like Tobin said, it doesn’t impact your power.
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mikemelbrooks posted:you can usually do a manual upload. Slow to reply, but thanks to you both for your effort posts. I managed to use the fit file tools to sort it out.
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thanks all, that's what I figured because of the above but it felt different and I happened to win the next race I was in so therefore was worried I'd given myself an invisible edge 😱
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Always the excuse to play with some power tools, I'm gonna build a rocker plate. What's the better option a) a 4' piano hinge or b) 2-3 of these bearing door hinges?
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I'm picturing two 3/4" pieces of plywood with a channel on each formed by thin strips. A row of lacrosse balls down the middle would act as the fulcrum to let you rock side to side. https://imgur.com/a/8ZGnAPn Basically stealing the idea of this kids' chair.
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I was mostly basing off of the GCN example. They used the bearing hinges, but I was thinking a 4' piano hinge would make easy work keeping the pivot in a straight line.
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The only thing I would be concerned about would be shearing the relatively smaller diameter pin in the hinge. But I definitely agree it would be easier to have one giant long hinge in a straight line versus the two or more of a normal hinge.
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Come And See posted:Could anyone recommend me a fancy indoor stationary bike? Bit of a success story here. I went with the Stages SB20 in late November, rode while watching Netflix, before getting set up for Zwift during Christmas. Now I ride 3 - 8 hours per week. My legs have never been so toned (it's kinda freaky actually), I've worked my way up to 200 FTP and a sustained 1.6 W/kg, completed the Ride California Challenge, and am now waiting for a Garmin Forerunner 745 to go on sale. Yesterday I scaled the Alpe du Zwift for the first time. Thank you to everyone here, in particular e.pilot and TobinHatesYou, I couldn't have made it this far without your sage advice!
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Get it, get it.
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Come And See posted:Bit of a success story here. I went with the Stages SB20 in late November, rode while watching Netflix, before getting set up for Zwift during Christmas. Now I ride 3 - 8 hours per week. this is good as hell
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Come And See posted:Bit of a success story here. I went with the Stages SB20 in late November, rode while watching Netflix, before getting set up for Zwift during Christmas. Now I ride 3 - 8 hours per week. my man 
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Come And See posted:Bit of a success story here. I went with the Stages SB20 in late November, rode while watching Netflix, before getting set up for Zwift during Christmas. Now I ride 3 - 8 hours per week. dude this rules so hard!
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My trainer tyre finally gave up and just degloved itself mid ride. I think this is a sign to get a direct drive.
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I'm thinking about giving TrainerRoad a try. What are the sessions like? Are you just staring at a power graph or is there something more to keep you engaged?
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