{"id":1085,"date":"2010-02-10T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:52:41","slug":"tyranny-of-the-turbo-simon-wicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/tyranny-of-the-turbo-simon-wicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the Turbo &#8211; Simon Wicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willesdencyclingclub.co.uk\">Willesden CC<\/a> club mate and has written a miserable (ie. accurate) post on turbos..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefixedfactor.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/10\/the-tyranny-of-the-turbo\">thefixedfactor.wordpress.com &#8211; tyranny of the turbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of turbo training, I&#8217;ve just got a CycleOps Jet Fluid Pro from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebikewhisperer.co.uk\">The Bike Whisperer<\/a>. It&#8217;s a snazzy fluid trainer unit and I used it last night for a 2x15min session and to compare my wired and wireless Powertap units. Bad news, since my Wired PT appeared to be reporting below that of the Wireless unit. So, I&#8217;m not going crazy, they are different. No wonder I struggle to hold my FTP on the Rubble! <\/p>\n<p>I set both PT power averaging for 30 seconds (the slowest updating option) and the speed averaging to 5 seconds. The rough results are below:<\/p>\n<p>39&#215;17 Stealth TT machine<\/p>\n<p>26kph 200W<\/p>\n<p>30kph 260W<\/p>\n<p>40kph 460W<\/p>\n<p>39&#215;17 Ribble Winter\/Audax<\/p>\n<p>26kph 170W<\/p>\n<p>30kph 225W<\/p>\n<p>40kph 450W<\/p>\n<p>So, unless I&#8217;ve missed some variable (I forgot to even out tyre pressure), it wasn&#8217;t in my mind that the Wired PT is reading lower. So when I&#8217;m trying to do FTP at 270W I&#8217;m actually around 300W. Although, it could be the wireless one reading high.. hmm..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon&#8217;s a Willesden CC club mate and has written a miserable (ie. accurate) post on turbos.. thefixedfactor.wordpress.com &#8211; tyranny of the turbo Speaking of turbo training, I&#8217;ve just got a CycleOps Jet Fluid Pro from The Bike Whisperer. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/tyranny-of-the-turbo-simon-wicks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}