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Derek W said:
As its my first year back on a bike I've got some queries about setting up my bike for use with a turbo trainer (buying later this month)

At the moment I have a bTwin Triban 3 size 60 frame with 700c 18/25 tyres / tubes http://www.decathlon.co.uk/triban-3...l#anchor_ComponentProductTechnicalInformation

Ideally would i be correct in saying I should be getting a turbo trainer specific tyre / spare tube along with a spare rear wheel so i can chop and change without my road tyres spraying crap all over my house! :p

And can someone recommend some stuff as I'm pretty clueless just now :o

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Looking at getting the CycleOps Fluid 2 when its back in stock at wiggle.
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Anyone?
 
Derek W said:
Anyone?
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Couple of quick answers...

Derek W said:
As its my first year back on a bike I've got some queries about setting up my bike for use with a turbo trainer (buying later this month)

At the moment I have a bTwin Triban 3 size 60 frame with 700c 18/25 tyres / tubes

Ideally would i be correct in saying I should be getting a turbo trainer specific tyre / spare tube along with a spare rear wheel so i can chop and change without my road tyres spraying crap all over my house!
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Unless you're riding somewhere super muddy on treaded tyres I can't see that there will be such an appreciable amount of muck on your tyres that you'd ruin your house. I've been using my regular outdoors tyre on my turbo in the kitchen and have yet to ruin the cupboards. That being said, getting a turbo tyre is probably a good idea, as then you won't wear out a decent outdoor tyre. As you've suggested, pick up a cheap spare wheel (or blag one off someone with lots of spare bits :D) and a spare tube and away you go. Probably worth getting a spare cassette as well, because there's no point saving the effort of changing tyres to ride your turbo if instead you have to swap your cassette over, which is a ball-achingly annoying job at the best of times.

Derek W said:
And can someone recommend some stuff as I'm pretty clueless just now

EDIT

Looking at getting the CycleOps Fluid 2 when its back in stock at wiggle.
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Sounds like a good bet. Fluid is better than magnetic, but it costs more. Go figure. For a decent fluid one you're looking at £200+ compared to £100+ for magnetic.
 
So, on my ride back to work from lunch today my speedometer read 18.9mph average speed. Strava reckons 17.9mph. Strava has always been a little slower than the normal speedo but an entire mph seems ridiculous. I've noticed slower measured speeds since Strava rolled out auto-pause. Anybody else in the same boat?
 
If you have a cadence sensor is somehow reducing your speed when freewheeling? Sure I read something about that somewhere...
 
I don't have a cadence sensor hooked up to my phone at the moment, though I can't imagine it would reduce my speed anyhow.

I might get another speed/cad sensor and move over to IpBike as Strava refuses to use speed sensors on android.
 
Vonhelmet said:
My Garmin and Strava - once I feed it the Garmin data - always come up with different answers.
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How different though? As I said, previously I've seen anything up to a 0.4mph difference (nearly always in the favour of the bike computer), which seems to match up with what I've heard previously. This is a much larger difference though.

I'll be keeping an eye on my rides over the next week or so to get some more comparisons.
 
FrenchTart said:
How different though? As I said, previously I've seen anything up to a 0.4mph difference (nearly always in the favour of the bike computer), which seems to match up with what I've heard previously. This is a much larger difference though.

I'll be keeping an eye on my rides over the next week or so to get some more comparisons.
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yeah, always a difference with strava, always lower than garmin too..

garmin yesterday - 19mph avarage
strava - 18.4 :mad:
 
grudas said:
yeah, always a difference with strava, always lower than garmin too..

garmin yesterday - 19mph avarage
strava - 18.4 :mad:
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I'm going to have to try what Roady did and record with both IpBike and Strava sometime.

SDK^ said:
The difference probably is down to including zero speed in the average, I.e. Stopped.
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I'm fairly sure Strava doesn't include that.
 
FrenchTart said:
I'm going to have to try what Roady did and record with both IpBike and Strava sometime.
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It worked easy but I noticed no differences between mine so I stopped recording with Strava.

I'll start again to see if I notice anything odd, I do quantity of rides with very variable speeds (traffic & lights) rather than distance tho ;)

Love the way Strava groups the rides together as if you rode with another person... But it's not clever enough to figure out the other person is YOU!
 
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I stupidly put a bid on what is probably a KK R M 1? after I told myself not to spend any more money on cycling until after pay day... Doh! Fingers crossed I don't win it, not totally awful if I do as my price wasn't too generous lol... Buying from a seller with 1 rep too, gah! :eek:
 
Vonhelmet said:
Couple of quick answers...



Unless you're riding somewhere super muddy on treaded tyres I can't see that there will be such an appreciable amount of muck on your tyres that you'd ruin your house. I've been using my regular outdoors tyre on my turbo in the kitchen and have yet to ruin the cupboards. That being said, getting a turbo tyre is probably a good idea, as then you won't wear out a decent outdoor tyre. As you've suggested, pick up a cheap spare wheel (or blag one off someone with lots of spare bits :D) and a spare tube and away you go. Probably worth getting a spare cassette as well, because there's no point saving the effort of changing tyres to ride your turbo if instead you have to swap your cassette over, which is a ball-achingly annoying job at the best of times.



Sounds like a good bet. Fluid is better than magnetic, but it costs more. Go figure. For a decent fluid one you're looking at £200+ compared to £100+ for magnetic.
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Cheers for that. Thought it would be easier to just change the whole wheel rather than break everything down and switch it everytime i wanted to use the turbo. I'll probably be back with a list of stuff to be checked to make sure I'm getting the right gear!

Gutted tonight, fine weather and wanted to get out again but discovered a flat which I'll be fixing tonight but don't think it'll be light enough for the run i want to do. Cut off point was around 5.30pm :( I think tomorrow should be ok though so I'll hopefully take things up again then.

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Just ordered the Fluid 2 tonight as it was back in stock at wiggle :D
 
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