Archive for December, 2006

The comback trail…

Monday, December 18th, 2006

is a long steep climb…
 
after a non-season and some time off the bike, here is the rolling fourteen day “picture”:
 

 
ain’t there yet, but Wednesday through Monday should rack up the score and put me significantly over the 50 mark.
 
leaving me 7 weeks to add 50ish point if I am to be ready for VOS…
 
hmmm….7 [...]

Gettin there…

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

14days, 13 rides and only 2 outside.  Guess this is why I try to find whatever stimulation I can (CT, TA, SRMonline – I actually like all three running simultaneously)…plus a TV or PC running cycling content and now (potentially) the new hillSimulator (more on that later)…
 
I think I found a solution for my on-ride [...]

First REAL ride on the ibike…

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

I played with it one day outside before.  But didn’t really calibrate it well (didn’t weight bike+rider+kit).
 
Today, almost two weeks later weather, babysitters and fate finally conviened for me to ride outside with it again.
 
This time I paid attention to the calibration.
 
I had a great ride with Jess, then dropped him off and set off [...]

Force-Velocity testing with a SRM + Torque Analysis

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

 

 
I have posted here before aboutTA, but this seems like an interesting application…
 
Andy posted this today:
 
Coming full circle…
 
And so I jumped right in.  I thought the TA would also provide some insight (see plot above of my fourth and best run).
 
Justin went first and did well (with a peak of 1097w).
 
I now had a [...]

Adding Altitude data to an SRM file…

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

This is something I have wanted to do for some time.  I have begged Uli to add it, I have tracked it myself with other devices,but just now spent some time getting this to work.
 
Now, understand, this isn’t a realtime recording of altitude within the SRM, but the ability to track, record and display in [...]

Un-friggin-believable…

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

 
 
Really…
 
all for a ringtone
 
no more tonight after reading that…
 
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More to come today…

Monday, December 4th, 2006

I have spent some time working on an idea lately, I will post more tonight about it…
 
This weekend sucked as it was freezing a$$ cold and I chose not to ride outside.
 
Sat was CT/Powercranks day (did I just admit to riding those?).  First ride on the PC for the year and I busted out a [...]