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Do you guys have your power setting to include or exclude zero's?

This question has probably been answered somewhere in this topic, but I'd like to know, do you guys use Zero or Non-zero power averages?

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Coach is quite important. I did lots of self coaching last year, became a slave to the numbers and didn't notice over training symptoms until it was too late. New coach uses a protocol that quite different to most books I've read, but I'm loving my bike at the moment and my latest FTP test result of 348 watts is just 4 watts off my FTP personal best (which was after months of solid training)

For the 2 previous weeks I did training session which was a total of 30 mins.3min X 10 sets which was 1 min at 390 watts and 2 mins at 280 watts. I then did a 20 min FTP test on past Monday and did 348 watts and even though it hurt it was sustainable

270watts indoor is impressive! Particularly at your weight... My FTP around 300-330 (at peak) but I struggle to maintain 300w on my indoor trainer!

Good suggestion but I noticed the same on all my MTB rides, couldn't sustain 240w climbing with my heart rate at close to max. I assumed I was just unfit but road bike seems to indicate something else. Sounds like this is unique to me though, will play around with my bike setup and try your suggestion and see what happens. Thanks for all the replies

I had a serious drop in training volume and intensity and assumed this was why my power dropped so much but when I got back on the road bike I noticed the drop wasn't that much. So yes, very strange.

yip, I recalibrate with every ride. Garmin prompts as soon as I switch it on so I'm fairly disciplined with calibrating the stages. I also don't move it that often, only reason for switching to my road bike for my training ride was my MTB has tyre issues and I didn't want to miss my training ride, otherwise it would've remained on the MTB until Sep-Oct when DC training starts

No, I also used heart rate variability to check how fatigued I am and it was pretty similar. Yes, same stretch of road as well. Could this possibly be due to my MTB setup? I've checked saddle height and used plum bomb to check fore-aft and seems right

I’ve been switching my stages PM between my road and mountain bike (and yes, I know the Q-factor is out by 4mm but with one leg 2cm longer than the other and number of other factors, this really hasn’t bothered me at and all both cranks are 175mm) I’ve only been riding my MTB since the Argus and when I did threshold training 2 weeks ago I struggled to maintain 250w. When I jumped on my road bike this week I managed 2 intervals at 300 – 310w which was hard but very manageable. My peak in November was 350w for 20min interval.

Has anyone know why I'd be putting out more power on my road bike VS my mountain bike? I used both on the road and there is probably a 40-50watt difference in power. I'm not sure if anyone has answered this in the 20 000 previous comment

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I'm not sure about the rest of you guys, but I've noticed at trend with the posts here. People have mentioned cyclist riding legally, single file, inside a yellow lane etc, and then getting killed/wiped out by motorist breaking the law, even the OP mentions his personal incidence of getting taken out (and I doubt you have motorist posting comments on forums saying 'This is why cyclist hate motorist') and on the other hand have cyclist 'breaking the law' annoying motorists but arrive home safely? All the countless incidence I've had on the road has been when I'm either a lone cyclist, sticking to the side of the road, or less than 5 riders all riding single file and having motorists/taxis/buses/trucks pass you at insane speeds missing you by a few millimeters. I have had Zero incidence riding as a big group. I know it's illegal for us to ride cyclist abreast and our club strongly condemns this but it seems to me like motorist are more cautious when it appears that you're a 'big obstruction' riding abreast vs a long string of cyclist where they squeeze past you almost forcing you off the road. I too am a driver and I've had lots of incidence where I was forced to slow down for a few minutes or drive at a speed lower than the speed limit whether this be for a truck, tractor, horse and cart, all I do is wait for it be safe to pass and do so. Getting to your destination 2 minutes later is not gonna kill ya and if you're in a hurry because you're late, then that's your fault for not managing your time correctly.

Major fail dude

Quite strange that you mention this. Yesterday for the first time in months, I went for a ride and it was absolutely incident free, no taxis tried to run me over, motorist passed at the required 1m gap, even got some motorist making casual conversation. I hope this was merely coincidence and not due to fear of us being 'mobsters'

I'm sure at least one of the riders must've made a statement when they handed themselves in at the police station? Also, if it is known as 'fact' that the driver says he was just stopped and was then attacked for no reason, then according to MCC's initial response, the cyclist were pelted with sachets, so therefore that must be 'fact' and not speculation? Also, I've done 11 Argus cycle tours and I've never had a supporter pelt me with sachets of water / ice? You not even allowed to grab water while on the move? I've been pleasantly hosed down yes but maliciously pelted by a supporter, no.

My question was can they be charged with 'attempted' murder, because tossing the cyclists with sachets could possibly have lead to one of the cyclist(s) dying. And who's to say they can't prove that the cyclists were pelted? there could be CCTV?

I wonder if this was a you tube video of youngsters throwing ice or water sachets at unsuspecting group of cyclists, it smaaks them hard in the face (I'm pretty sure a ice or water sachets being flung from a moving vehicle and you travelling around 30km+ is gonna be pretty painful) and the driver and occupants drive off laughing their asses off while the fellow cyclists rally around their injured mate, if it would even would've had some kind of exposure. I also wonder how many Hubbers who may then have seen the video would then have said 'if I caught that driver I would've given him a 'PK' or sorted him out. And before someone again tells me that I'm trying to justify what they did, I'm not, just asking questions

If they weren't then surely they would have all kinds of pending law cases against them as do most criminals in our country? If they weren't, then surely they would've been attacking motorist wherever they went? And in cape town, some motorist can be quite confrontational, a lot more confrontational than a guy who simply double parked his car? I agree with you, what they did was wrong, there was a action and now there will be a reaction, already they've been banned from Argus, possibly from PPA, their club, may face jail sentence, etc so I'm pretty sure they will answer for their actions. I wonder however, if the youngsters in the back were in fact throwing ice sachets or water sachets at the cyclists, what if it smacked one of the riders in the face, causing them to loose their balance, cause them to crash and they died (we all know how quickly a crash can turn deadly), does this mean the youngsters can be charged with attempted murder?

While they may seem very closely structured to you, it hardly seems plausible to me that a van passes a group of 20 cyclist 'who took up the whole lane', stops further down the road again and in a road that has very high visibility, is then not seen by the lead rider and then the driver is just attacked for double parking? And we going on 'facts' from a 19 year old who made global news, who would now admit to any kind of wrongdoing? And if you read my second paragraph, you'll see that I mention that no one here condones or states that there is anything that this driver may have done to be attacked like that, everyone is in agreement on that bit it seems (myself included), all we're doing is asking what could've set this guys off like that. I just think it's so easy for us to simply sit an just based on what was seen in a 59sec video and then the victims account without understanding what could've triggered the guys. Does understanding what caused it, justify anything, absolutely not, but in the same way some would like to understand what made guy shoot an intruder in his house, when he could've just warned the guy to leave, but chances are at time the person reacted, was fueled by fear, (due to the amount of break in's in the area, due to all the horror stories we hear in the news daily), he reacted and shot the guy. I'm pretty sure that guy, would regret his actions the next day, as I'm pretty sure these riders do as well.

I'd like to know how it 'Fact' when the drivers account and the independent 3rd party's versions are completely different? One says he drove past the guys, the kids playing in the back may or may not have have sprayed the cyclist, then he stops and the next thing he gets a wheel in his face, whilst the 3rd party says the van was stationary, leader gets upset because van is double parked and attacks the guy? I don't think anyone is looking for excuses, just about everyone on this 66 page thread (regardless of which so called 'camp') has stated that the retaliation/actions does not warrant anything that the driver and 6-7 occupants may or may not have done. I think some of us just like to ask what could possibly have sent these normally, law abiding citizens into such a furious rage. Surely this is not the first time these guys have had run in's with motorist whether solo or in a group, so what was different this time around?

Couldn't agree more

Well done to you OP. I assume then that you also hoot at the person driving and texting with their cellphone, or driving drunk, or skipping a stop street or robot or who speeds or drives without a seat belt or worse let their kids in the car without a car seat, or illegal drag races, etc? Because those people are more at risk of killing not just themselves but sometimes are many as 20+ people in one incident and I'm sure as a fellow motorist you must have their concern at heart as well. Good Samaritan indeed

i rode with a compact crank for the last 4 years and recently switched back to standard, as I bought an SRM power meter. I have to admit that I don't notice much of a difference but then I haven't had an opportunity to climb all that much since switching back to standard. I did Chappies and Suikerbossie in one ride and I did Red Hill and Slangkop on another ride and in both I didn't notice the difference between compact and standard. I love riding high cadence and used to enjoy the compact because i could climb at high cadence but I noticed that my strength suffered