2018 Indoor Training Self Help Thread | Zwifting | Suffering - Page 2

flydhest · #16 12-08-2017, 04:20 PM

Many thanks, all

kramnnim · #17 12-09-2017, 09:08 AM

Virtugo is another one to keep an eye on. Mick Rogers is involved with it somehow.

chuckred · #18 12-09-2017, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by flydhest

Alright, at the risk of thread drift and being told to do an extensive search ... my birthday is in two weeks and my wife has heard me talk about wanting to set up a Zwift setup. We are now in an apartment in NY and I would have to do this at 5:00 am before the kids wake up. Recommendations for this situation? I left my rollers in DC when we moved so I am starting from scratch but this would go in the office/guest room/kids playroom so there will be a large screen Mac in there.

At least you can turn the tunes up without disturbing the family.

AngryScientist · #19 01-05-2018, 01:18 PM

PSA: i now have very convincing evidence that completing an FTP test very shortly after a huge breakfast of eggs, pancakes and bacon is NOT an optimal strategy.

ugh.

coffeecake · #20 01-05-2018, 01:55 PM

lol. I treat them like race-type events now.

The first one i ever did was indoors on a trainer in the summer without a fan. I had to give up after 7 minutes.

cal_len1 · #21 01-05-2018, 09:01 PM

With as unpleasant as they are, you really just want to have to do them once... I do The Sufferfest, and their new fitness test is even more miserable than standard FTP tests. The last time I did it, I bonked, and now I have to do it again. 100% not looking forward to that...

carpediemracing · #22 01-05-2018, 09:58 PM

If you ride indoors a lot nix the Fluid2. I've had three spring leaks on me. Takes a few to several years but still. On a used KK that has been through a few owners I think, it's going strong.

Plus the KK is more consistent in zPower (the calculated power) on Zwift. Once warmed up the Fluid2 handicaps you substantially, about 25% at lower wattages (55w handicap at 200w), about 10% at higher (100w at 1000w).

I have a dual screen video card. Zwift on one screen, with the cpu usage in the background of that screen. On the second screen I have some kind of bike video / movie / music on. Headphones. Fan. Good to go.