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That'd be my first thought as well, too loose. Also helps to wet the pads with water before you start to get a better contact Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Yeah, you can go back and switch the bike setting after the fact without any problems.

That's the same one I'm using now, seems like it's fully ANT+ compatible.

I use trainerroad which does the hard part for me, but it basically implements Joe Friel's method: http://www.trainingbible.com/joesblog/2009/11/quick-guide-to-setting-zones.html Do a 30 minute time trial, making sure to go as hard as you can for the full 30 minutes. Pacing is important, so make sure you don't go too hard out the gate, but it needs to be as hard as you can maintain for the duration. After 10 minutes, hit the lap butt on the garmin, then when you're done average the heart rate for the last 20 minutes. That'll be your lactate threshold heart rate (LTHR). Use the following to get your heart rate zones: Step 2. Establish your training zones. Use the following guide to establish each zone by sport. Run Zones Zone 1 Less than 85% of LTHR Zone 2 85% to 89% of LTHR Zone 3 90% to 94% of LTHR Zone 4 95% to 99% of LTHR Zone 5a 100% to 102% of LTHR Zone 5b 103% to 106% of LTHR Zone 5c More than 106% of LTHR Bike Zones Zone 1 Less than 81% of LTHR Zone 2 81% to 89% of LTHR Zone 3 90% to 93% of LTHR Zone 4 94% to 99% of LTHR Zone 5a 100% to 102% of LTHR Zone 5b 103% to 106% of LTHR Zone 5c More than 106% of LTHR

The F5X is way too nice to sell

Yikes, 170-185 bpm? That's breaking into zone 5 HR for me. Sounds like a fun time! The last long ride that came close to 40 miles was a tough one, I forgot to eat and basically suffered the last 45 min of the ride. Gotta get more long rides in once the weather lets up. Consolidating all my Tour of Sufferlandria posts here so I don't keep bumping the thread: http://www.trainerroad.com/tour-of-sufferlandria/nebby Stage 1: Rubber Glove Looks like my wattage went up 3 watts since I last tested, which is probably close enough to not matter. Stage 2: ISLAGIATT I did it at 95% to prevent blowing up the legs, and that seemed to do the trick. Didn't make it easy by any means though... Stupid HRM started dying on me halfway through the session Stage 3: Revolver 16 x 1 minute intervals at 240W. First 13 weren't bad, but the last three my HR started peaking into zone 5, which is surprisingly enough a fairly noticeable difference. Stage 4: Hell Hath No Fury Stage 5: The Wretched + Extra Shot Stage 6: A Very Dark Place Stage 7: Angels + The Hunted Stage 8: Blender

http://www.trainerroad.com/tour-of-sufferlandria You need to be subscribed to trainerroad. A power meter isn't required, though you do need an ANT+ usb adapter for your laptop for it to read the data from your sensors. You don't need the sufferfest videos themselves, but they do make the time go by much better. Trainerroad has a 30 day no questions asked refund period as well, so if you don't like it you can get a refund...

Yeah, it affects resistance but so does the tire wear and the psi of the tire. Basically you try to keep as much constant as possible and it'll be good enough for self-comparison. Tour of Sufferlandria Stage 1: Complete I vastly prefer the 2x 8 minute test over a 20 minute test; that was a very long 20 minutes. On a more positive note...I've gone up 3 watts in three weeks!

Nope, haven't done it before. It sure looks like a doozy.

Found the link and you're right, they did assume 165lbs...but I think the key factor is that they assume the rider is going up a 1% grade. Even without wind, that's going to require more power compared to a truly flat road. Playing with some online calculators it seems that's roughly a 80 watt difference, which would probably account for the difference in feel compared to truly flat. Grats on getting a nice ride in! It's currently 3pm and it's still 29F outside, so I'm going to stay inside and give the first stage of the tour of sufferlandria a try. It's the rubber glove ftp test today, followed by ISLAGIATT tomorrow.

IIRC, the chart is calculated assuming the rider weighs 180lbs...and there's more to road feel than wattage required imo. The coasting feels better with the pro flywheel, but it's not a drastic difference.

Looks like a short version of Sufferfest revolver in terms of the speed. You might get better recovery during rest periods if you switched to an easy fast spin around 90 cadence instead of completely stopping (if that's what you're doing). Have you checked out trainerroad.com? Even without a power meter the training plans are quite helpful. Most of them line up well with the training strategies I've been reading about in the Friel book and the sweet spot base plan is similar to the time crunched cyclist plan. Tour of Sufferlandria starts today, kicking off with a 20min FTP test. Ought to be an intense session on the trainer tonight

Nope, nothing announced yet so far IIRC.

Anyone else having issues connecting with tapatalk? Mine sits at the "connecting to server..." prompt.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/432650514 The ride ended up being 38.27 miles with 2,831 ft of elevation gain The heart rate stats were interesting to me: in total, roughly 1hr was spent in tempo and 1hr was spent at threshold. On the power side I had a good amount of active recovery and the rest were fairly evenly distributed. Other details: 0.992 IF, 259.8 TSS, and 174W NP (vs 175W FTP recently tested). I guess that feeling of a tough challenge was warranted! edit: I lied, I was looking at the HR stats and not the power zone distribution; whoops! Corrected my post...

Mine looks a bit splotchy when I put too thick a coat on it, but otherwise I think it's turning out alright. I'll get a picture of it later...

Did a ride today with a couple of folks in the local tri group. It pretty chilly out, I think the forecast said it'd be 28F with a 22 windchill but my garmin shows it as 32; either way the windchill made it feel cooler than it really was. I was definitely the slowest so it was a good challenge for me, but nonetheless it felt good. I did forget to eat around the 2 hour mark and started bonking at that point, which made the rest of the ride a bit rough.

There was some rust on mine when I first got it. I just went to town with a scotch brite pad and that took off the rust fairly quickly.

Very nice, Chris!

No worries Chris, some other time perhaps

I've been working on seasoning it with flaxseed oil and it seems to be working well...

HD650's back on Massdrop for $350

I'm guessing the mad fibers?

The Swedish folks that work at Arupusu Denki Kabushiki-gaisha must be what they're referring to.

If Shimano had done their decals the same way as previous versions (without clear coat) they wouldn't be an issue. Alas they painted over them for this iteration