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It's more to do with the watches like samsung, amazefit, google etc and then onwards to other platforms via strava rather than the major players of Garmin, Apple, Suunto & Polar that can go directly to the likes of Trainingpeaks etc. Trainingpeaks you can see the list of devices https://www.trainingpeaks.com/upload/

It is a running watch with basic cycling mode, so will pair with a separate speed and cadence sensor, like this https://www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za/product/garmin-speed-sensor-2-and-cadence-sensor-2/ You can try this, done on other garmin watches that don't have the ability to connect a power meter similar to your F45 https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/05/cycling-power-vivoactive.html. It might work.

It doesn't have the feature to connect a power meter, see the specs https://www.garmin.com/en-ZA/p/641121#specs, it will only do speed and cadence sensors for cycling

There a few other apps like fitnesssyncer https://www.fitnesssyncer.com/about/ or Tapiriik https://tapiriik.com/, else you can set up free accounts on Trainingpeaks, Final Surge or intervals.icu to have all your data as they work with most fitness devices and have the potential to sync to other platforms

Maybe buy a cheap HR strap, Magene one works well

Dumb move really. It is your data being uploaded to strava, so stopping you linking to sync it to alternative platforms is not doing them any favours. It's not as if strava have great analysis backend. They should stick to being the social media platform for people who work out and work on enhancing it rather than throwing spanners in the works that will likely get the major fitness trackers / partners develop their own API's to get your data to other platforms.... which will mean less and less need for strava

They now selling at sportsmans waewhouse https://www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za/products/?keyword=tailwind

For Info There are often a lot of discount codes floating around the web on forums for TP membership. Reddit often have in their forums. So do some hunting before you look to sign up. Also if you know any coaches on TP, they often get sent codes by TP to use to offer upgrades to Premium for their athletes and it is usually around 20% discount. So if you are thinking of going to Trainingpeaks Membership in March 2025, if and when IV/TPV is no longer free, go looking for discount codes else ask on this thread if anyone has a code and get a discount of the annual, before upgrading to paid.

It has been openly discussed on Reddit and other forums for the last 3-4yr 🤷‍♂️

Another alternative If you take a bit of time to work out how to configure it, you can run Zwift Offline for Free https://github.com/zoffline/zwift-offline, You ride solo as it acts as a server on your own machine, but you can add bots as well as your past self to add a few more people on the route. Personally I use this with structured workouts only as I am not into racing or free riding with lots of people/bots, IDT is for me is just for my structured workouts that are on the Trainingpeaks platform, but could just be the same if using Intervals.icu or another platform. If you have a training plan and do structured workouts, you can download the workouts (ZWO format) to a folder and then they can automatically sync to Zwift. Also takes a bit of configuring https://zwiftinsider.com/backing-up-and-syncing-zwift-workouts/ All the zwift workouts and plans are available on Zwiftofline

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You just rotate the fork 90° if the box is wide enough, then you don't have to do anything to the handlebars. Else you loosen the handlebar bolts and rotate the bars down, if the box is not wide enough. Then it is easy enough once arrived at your destination to rotate the bars back up and tighten the bolts. So you will be only removing the front wheel, and at worse loosening the handlebar bolts and rotating the bars.

If you follow mywoosh on Facebook, whenever anyone asks about a wheel on trainer, they state they do not support it and only recommend direct drive. But often say they may be getting a wheel on trainer in the office to test, however never add wheel on trainers to their list. Whilst a wheel on might work, if for any reason cadence/speed/power is off on a wheel on trainer or not working they will point you to the recommended list, which is all direct drive smart trainers or the smart bikes. There are no wheel on trainers on the list of recommended. I didn't say a wheel on doesn't work, only that mywoosh do not support them and recommend you to go with a direct drive.

If you are wanting a spin bike rather than a smart trainer with a normal bike on it, then maybe look at this app as a bridge to using other software like mywoosh https://www.qzfitness.com/ I would suggest that you look at the specifications on the mywoosh website with regard to trainers as they do not support wheel on smart trainers or spin bikes, only direct drive smart trainers. I would suggest that you consider looking for a smart trainer and putting a cheap road bike on it, if wanting to use mywoosh, rather than a spin bike. Edit, there are quite a few direct drive smart trainers in the classifieds for less than R10k