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I have Infocranks on my Road bike, Track bike and my indoor trainer bike, all have worked without problem for over 3 years now, and probably cost less that 1 Dura ace PM.

Got 2 wired SRM's sitting in my drawer. Changed the batteries a few times, got them from the UK. BUT since I got InfoCrank, changing batteries cost about R100.00 I now have one on my Indoor bike, track bike and road bike, all for less than 1 SRM

I have a pair from 2012, chamois still 100% but the Lycra is stretched now. Only use on my indoor trainer so no UV damage. You are better off getting new shorts than replacing the chamois as the new Lycra will be of greater benefit than a new chamois. Think of the unstitching and restitching

Its about looking at your racing files and seeing what the torque value was at critical sections. then matching that torque in training. Of course if you have an InfoCrank, like me, you can see the torque value on the phone app whilst riding, obviously on the IDT. For example when I ride a pursuit on the track, I can see from my race file my torque value as being 40nM, at 115rpm. So I emulate that value on my indoor trainer, but riding with different cadence values, ie 60/80/90/100/110 etc This allows for more precise training stimulus as I am focusing directly on that particular torque value, but with different heart rates. higher the cadence the higher the heart rate. if you are able to go on the road and ride at exactly the same cadence and power output as the critical race section mentioned above then just do that. Only problem is then you only see after downloading the file where the values are, whereas with the InfoCrank and App you see in real time. This is based on my own personal views and experience

some nice looking intervals there !!! glad I'm not the only person that realizes torque is the key not power

Thanx David

I was there on the day, and I think the power is a Strava best guess. Gert will have to average over 350w to maintain that speed. Anyone that knows anything about power will agree. The only way you can average 250W for that speed is to be 5 foot tall weigh 60kg, and be super aero, of which Gert is neither. Gert is just plain a monster on the bike. He was riding at my pursuit speed for some of the ride. An effort I manage once and need 2 days to recover from.

Hi David Works perfectly on my side,. except the speed is showing incorrectly. shows my max as 15. Have set the units to metric. I do from time to time go above 15...... but not very often

Just some useless information.... Nike never made the shoes themselves, DMT make Cavendish's shoes and put Nike branding on them

Ordered at 11h45, delivered at a 12h15. Awesome service!! Will try tomorrow am.

Ordered at 11h45, delivered at a 12h15. Awesome service!! Will try tomorrow am.

Here's my black beauty

Valverde is such a wheelsucker!!! does nothing but look behind for someone to help him. Can suck a wheel like a pro, but will always sprints past at the line!!!

Yeah the windy days are the best, put them in the gutter when there's a side wind, and watch the weak ones pop out the back!!! A few weeks ago, had a strong wind from the left, I knew there was a right turn up ahead, went to the front and Steeked it for about 1km, looked back and there was about 6 out of +-50 left!!!

as per VN today, http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/08/news/bike-weight-myth-fast-bikes_339880

If you wanna ride like Froomey, you gotta look like Froomey. If you just a fun rider, by all means get more muscle on the upper body, cos then we wont have to worry about you at the front on the climbs......

Try find details of Duncan MacIntire(sic) I think he stay in JHB somewhere. he can bulid, but I dont know if he still does. My concern would be sourcing 24" tyres and rims. Try going to the track, Hector Norris Park and looking through their store room. Plenty of bikes there, you moight get lucky

He is also in CT

Doesn't make sense aerodynamically to have that dropped top tube. The air is flowing horizontally at the front, would work better if the stem top tube were parallel to the ground. Having it tilt up like that just exposes more area to the wind... Just my 2c.....

oh ok...

what power meter do you use??

that was jus an example I am currently FTP of 360W @ 85Kg max HR of 171fighting weight is closer to 80kg I only do quality on my homemade indoor trainer, ride indoors 3x per week road Sat and Sun. Sat is Benoni world champs 2hrs....Sun steady threshold ride 2 hrs My Blood lactate threshold is 147, so I only ride at either warm up/cool down pace or at threshold. Sessions are 2x20min / 2x30min / 4x10min / 1 x 60min big gear intervals. All sessions only 60min I do block training, so Sat & Sun hard, Mon off, Tue,Wed&Thur hard, Fri off rinse repeat..... A little training experiment on myself, been going strong for 4 months now.

I use both HR and W when testing / training 300w @ 140bpm, then a few weeks later 300W @ 135bpm I kinow its time for a retest. I test every 2 weeks. Testing is training!!!

I suggested FTP was 300w but was set at 280w therefore when riding at 300w you accumulate way more points than actually working for.

Have suggested this before on another posting, with similar high IF numbers, but seems guys are impressed with the high numbers. IMHO it is virtually impossible to get a weekly IF of 0.9 as it would imply riding at 90% of FTP every day, including warm up and cool down.