Dreadhead

got my ass beat down in a race, which I think will likely be my one of my last ones of this year. My coach keeps spouting positive "you can do it" bull shit but the fact is at least right now I'm at red line in 5th when everyone else is cruising in 3rd or 4th. Drove home went in the hot tub with my wife. Then went to the grocery store and then had friends over for a grilled chicken dinner (I did the cooking). It was a nice evening. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to put myself through another ass whupping tomorrow as I'm already registered for a race.

I thought you bought that a while ago?

Happy Birthday

I think I'll wait until that news is official and not from a rabid anti-windows guy.

Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop -- Engadget

I reply in the thread where I'm asked the question.

Polar and Garmin both sell running computers that record heart rate, speed etc but they don't measure power at all. The problem with running is that it's very difficult to judge someone's efficiency while running and it varies a whole lot more than in cycling. If you're really interested I'm sure you could find a sports science lab that could do some breathalyzer testing and five you a calories vs speed curve but that probably would still vary a lot.

I'm currently using the iBike iAero (iBike -- The World's Most Sophisticated Cycling Computers) which is not a direct force measurement device but uses estimates for aero and friction along with Newtons EOM to figure out your power. I always thought it did a reasonable job but in the end after comparing carefully to the PowerTap SL that I borrowed I am underwhelmed. I did two separate calibration rides to tune the coefficients vs the PT using the iBike software and got very different results between the two. The ibike does have one huge advantage in that it's very easy to move around so I will keep it on my training and TT bikes and calibrate it as best I can and maybe I'll be lucky and get it to actually work. That said the average powers do compare well enough. Since I already have 5 different sets of wheels on 3 bikes I am not going to be buying PowerTaps for all of them and that makes the Quarq Cinqo the only option I can get today. I am very interested in the Metrigear solution as well but I'm concerned it may end up vaporware and I can't really wait anymore now I know how f'ed up the numbers I'm getting are.

In undergraduate I slept through a large portion of all my classes. I mastered falling asleep for 2.5 boards of information which gave me just enough time to copy down everything before the 3rd board was filled and everything was erased to start over again. I'm not proud of it but it's the truth. As I was a professor for a few years I can safely say I (the student) would have driven me (the professor) nuts.

Decided that my old power meter for my bike is a POS after borrowing a friends and comparing the two. This involved creating a Excel workbook to optimize the calibration on mine vs the other one. After doing that I found that the STD Dev of the error at any instant was almost 25% of the mean value. WTF. Now after blowing around $1200 on this setup I'm going to have to buy a $1600 replacement that's going to take 2 months to get here. Yay! FML. On the plus side I guess I will get a new toy.

Nice! Congrats!

purty. What's the cost on these again?

Cycling is like every other hobby there's always something to buy but I am honestly running out of stuff. It's approaching the wall of unable to justify in most cases.

A gamma 2 from Fierce Freak A small bunch of bike stuff

Happy Birthday!

sorry to open old wounds

Do tell? What VRS fiasco?

Tree trimming service. So f'ing annoying because I could get a 46" 3D TV + 3D Blue Ray Player + 2 pairs of glasses for the same amount of money from Amazon.com but instead now I'll just have a slightly less dead looking tree.

Good luck with the apartment hunt I ate a hot breakfast, dealt with some banking. Yesterday I spent a few hours trying to calibrate my power meter on my various bikes but I may have screwed it up and now I have to do it again but this weekend is looking like absolutely crap weather. yay.

spent the evening alone because Google decided they had to do Meaghan's 2nd interview in person in California....

Cool. I thought you were getting a pico slim

Did he bring pictures of his starving children?

sorry dude, that sucks big time

I've hated this thread for months. Still not buying.

To be honest I'm lucky it's that expensive if it was in the sub 5k range I think I may be having stupid stupid thoughts...