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Garfield2010

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The lekker thing about the BLE strap is that it now opens up all kinds of smartphone apps to you as well.

 

As mentioned before, I now and again use the free iphone virtual training app....very cool and works like a bomb. Sync all data to cloud and no need for dongles....

 

Bluetooth for the win.

BLT is nice if you're only going to use it on the IDT. It doesn't work with the Garmin speed/cadence sensor though, so it has to be Ant+ dongle with the iPad route.
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BLT is nice if you're only going to use it on the IDT. It doesn't work with the Garmin speed/cadence sensor though, so it has to be Ant+ dongle with the iPad route.

Confused...why would you need garmin?

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Confused...why would you need garmin?

I have to use my Garmin speed/cadence sensor, not so? I'm on a normal fluid 2 trainer, not one of the fancy numbers.
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I have to use my Garmin speed/cadence sensor, not so? I'm on a normal fluid 2 trainer, not one of the fancy numbers.

Ahhh ok I see...

 

you could get a BLE speed and cadence with no dongle...but somewhere you going to have to pay the piper.

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Frustrating as my ride bombed out after 5 hours when i was on the last big climb. Is there anyway we could download the whole route (excluding video) and ride it offline on the ipad? In other words the google maps profile.

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Lost 2.5kg since receiving the powerbeam on 26th of May. So far the impact on my training has been great!! :clap: :thumbup:

I've been off the bike for months, only "playing" on the IDT, went for my first long ride today, pleasantly surprised

I was chatting to ROUXTJIE , I'm sure the IDT is harder than riding you actual bike,

Oh well I will keep giving the races a go, after a few weeks will have a better indication

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I saw Dave (?) at Hakahana this morning. Tried to greet him but the boys in the A bunch is very focused! Jeez the man looks in great shape. I can now understand his numbers.

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Frustrating as my ride bombed out after 5 hours when i was on the last big climb. Is there anyway we could download the whole route (excluding video) and ride it offline on the ipad? In other words the google maps profile.

we will add this to the list of wants, thanks for the ideas.

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I saw Dave (?) at Hakahana this morning. Tried to greet him but the boys in the A bunch is very focused! Jeez the man looks in great shape. I can now understand his numbers.

sorry for not greeting back, i was shivering and probably could not hear due to my teeth chattering........

 

hope you had fun at the race.

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Dave...just some results from a test Dipslick and myself ran on friday last week.

 

The lag problem to be more specific werent present when it was just him and me...race started and for about 20 seconds he didnt move on my screen, and I didnt move on his....but then it was live...as in every second our positions and metrics were updating giving a nice VR experience...the blixem also attacked right at the end with a flat out sprint and I could see he did this. Do you think that the lag has perhaps something to do with race capacity? I dont know if this will help the developers but here is the race in question anyway.

 

http://my.virtualtraining.cycleops.com/en/onlinerace/race-animation/440

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