i didn’t know that was a thing…guess if you pay big $$ for those things you get pretty protective of it.
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Oh yeah 100%. I used to wash after every ride, maybe let it go every other if I really didn’t have time.
Grease is the biggest enemy. Your chain and gears get so covered in grease that if you aren’t washing/degreasing every ride or every other ride, the components will just get gunked up and stop working.
It’s a huge time sink to actually ride a road bike.
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Maybe you had the wrong grease? What kind you need? I sell it by the transport. Price discount since it will help me hit my numbers.
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The issue is the opposite - grease builds up from grime on the road hitting your chain and sprocket.
Without washing and degreasing regularly, the grease and grime will clog your sprocket up, and make it impossible to shift gears or throw your chain off the sprocket all together when you try and shift.
Grease = enemy. Indoor spin bike and peloton = no more grease. Big W for cyclists.
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I want more people to ride inside. I live on on a flat narrow street with no shoulder yet I am inundated with packs of spandex clad cyclists riding 3 across and 18 deep at all hours of the day.
You’re a machine!
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Savage. #219 overall!
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Well done!
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Jesus…I know I’m a novice but damn this is motivating.
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I’m intrigued, but reading the instructions for calibrating is intense. I do most of my rides at home, but occasionally will ride the club’s bike. Will be interesting to compare. I haven’t been able to break my 30 min record at home, so maybe there’s something weird going on?
I’m seriously never going to post one of my workouts with your sickos in here.
But my question is this for the people with the really high outputs: do you just modify the rides with higher resistance than what the instructor is saying? Or do you do something else?
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Very interested in this. Although looking at previous posts, for the higher viewed classes, small differences in output look like they have big differences in rank. I saw a 10 kJ output difference was 1000s of rank difference.
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I actually looked at someone’s ride to see that (forgot who), and it looks like they target the instructor’s cadence range throughout, but resistance is constantly at the top end or higher than the stated range, which will juice output up big time.
Not sure what you are calling “really high outputs” but I usually try to be at the upper end of the cadence resistance ranges for the efforts, and then don’t go as low as they call out for the warm up and the recoveries (usually a few points higher in resistance). I find that starting out the ride with a higher warm up than they call out makes a huge difference
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Got a quick run in this morning! All I hear in my head is @gatorz7888 saying “you do it, you win.”
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Nice Job.
I did a Peleton Yoga this AM. first time…it was good. I’m not nearly flexible as I should be so will keep that in the Rota. So far I have done something every day for 6 days…even if its just a stretch program. Goal is to keep that going, do something, anything, just don’t do nothing.
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I don’t believe that I am in @jtex1013 's league, but my wife has asked me the same question, and I spot checked while I was riding. There is a substantial output jump between average resistance of 42 & ~48. Personally, I try to always stay on beat because otherwise it defeats the purpose of even tracking comparisons, but do constantly ride at top/above the resistance range.
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Yes - you have to go well above the instructors resistance range to get the higher outputs. For my 368 output on the 30min HIIT ride I was consistently 5-10 pts above the highest range that Alex was calling out.
For instance, my flat road when he calls out 25-35 is usually at 44. When he said we won’t go above 55 in this class, I was at 60.
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I did this one last night and filtered the leaderboard to people I’m following. @JBors was flat out getting after it. I used higher resistance (couple points) and higher cadence most of the ride and was nowhere near him.
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