Indoor Training... I'm Bored with Wattopia and Richmond to be honest...
TheBigYin
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Think It's time to Dust off the Tacx TTS software (or more accurately, install TTSv4.17.n) and start working my way through this little list of beauties...
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I understand your sentiment completely. I love Zwift but they are trying to get entirely too much mileage out of the couple of courses they have. In my opinion, at this stage of the game there should be at least 4 or 5 courses and they should be rotating every 2 or 3 days. And I'm still of the opinion that there should be, at a minimum, 2 courses available every day, a hilly and a flat, and the user should be able to select between the two.0
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You've got me curious now. I was just checking out the TTS software on the Tacx site. I've always heard horror stories about how buggy and problematic it is but it looks like it has some pretty neat functionality. Is it worth investing in in addition to Zwift and/or TrainerRoad?Think It's time to Dust off the Tacx TTS software (or more accurately, install TTSv4.17.n)
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I've got a loan version of the latest TTS software, and it's in a different league to the v3 one... But of course, the video ride stuff is expensive at around 35€ per DVDs...
Without the DVDs, I reckon Zwift and TrainerRoad edge it... But those real life DVDs are just something else I MO
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ohh... me want!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G95v3nFZYGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZB6KQBy0is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDavIJqj97Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZdBVvcLMvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u_6Q_stqvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStfUpfRE74
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But surely you'd miss all those ride ons and dodgy superman configurations .... oh and the constant stream of people moaning about them in those lovely little popup messages
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Jakess1971 wrote: »But surely you'd miss all those ride ons and dodgy superman configurations .... oh and the constant stream of people moaning about them in those lovely little popup messages
/sexist mode...
think I'd trade them all for 3 hours of riding along following Trotty's *kitten* up and down the hills near Lake Como...
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Personally, I would've thought they'd have had a new course available by now?0
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I think you're right there... as far as I'm concerned, they've 20 days left before my strava freebie expires, at which point, I'm thinking I'll start riding via the Tacx TS stuff again - i've been playing with the TTS workout builder, and it now actually does "ftp linked" workouts - so you can build a workout based on % of your FTP, same as TrainerRoad / Zwift do... For structured stuff I don't really care about the "eye candy" anyway - so I'll download the PDF file of the workouts so I can finish the 12 week FTP builder, and take it from there.
Maybe if someone reports back that any prospective new routes on Zwift are worthwhile, then I'll treat myself to the odd single month...
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Sufferfest / Outside
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Sufferfest / Outside
Would that I was actually cleared by the medics for the first one... and that I had the nerve to try the other one in the current weather, but I'm seriously convinced I'd end up dead in a hedgerow before the end of my first local loop with the current wind conditions...
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While everyone gets all these new smart trainers and connects to all these cool online bike video games I stay old school....just got a Velotron. New (well, old actually) super accurate ways to punsih yourself.0
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I think I remember getting tested on one of those things when I had problems with my knee years ago. it's the Computrainer's "big brother" isn't it... looks like an old school fan trainer frame, but with the rear wheel on the back replaced by a bloody great flywheel and a copper copper strip that passes between magnets to provide eddy-current resistance... They're an absolute monster of a rig if it's what I remember...
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Just had a quick google - it was the thing I remembered - http://www.computrainer.co.uk/products/velotron/
they're good - but at that price (£7,350) , I can see why people would ditch them in favour of a Wattbike at 1/3 the price...
I like old-school ideas though... I had one of the early fan based indoor trainer frames, before "swapping up" to a Cateye CS100 (which is now residing at another MFP friends home)... I wasn't quite an early-enough-adopter to have one of these though... http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/03/going-old-school-using-bike-trainer.html
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I think I remember getting tested on one of those things when I had problems with my knee years ago. it's the Computrainer's "big brother" isn't it... looks like an old school fan trainer frame, but with the rear wheel on the back replaced by a bloody great flywheel and a copper copper strip that passes between magnets to provide eddy-current resistance... They're an absolute monster of a rig if it's what I remember...
Yep that is it...55 lb rear flywheel and the DynaFit frame. So real nice to just jump on and get after it. No calibration required, no roll outs, just go.
I get into some of these deals and get to play with some fun equipment. That thing is rated @ 2400 watts !! So you can do some crazy Wingate type tests. There is some interesting software out there I want to try. See if they play nice with each other.
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