Indoor Cycling?

[wafflycat]

Its where you get off your bike, and thrust your croth at it so hard the tyres make a honking noise as they slide across the floor

What's your 'croth'?

Is that something to do with Jonathan Ross being in a bad mood?

 

[Joe24]

Woops, mean crotch.
Sorry

 

[gavintc]

Well, I moved from spinning classes to a road bike. It was my lunch time activity and there were some very hot women in there.

 

[Will1985]

I've never been bored - even on the mammoth 3 hour one!

If there is no ventilation, stick a fan in front of you and attach a sweat cover to the bike. Put on some music (playlist is good) or watch a DVD - film or cycling....it's over in no time.

 

[bonj2]

Some of the women in the spin classes i went to looked well dodgy, a few looked like men, well butch!
I was careful not to go onto the bikes they use incase they beat me up!

probably were

 

[Joe24]

probably were

What happened to that sprinter that people thought was a bloke?

 

[Sittingduck]

What happened to that sprinter that people thought was a bloke?

I heard he she won by a length.

 

[Joe24]

I heard he she won by a length.

How did the tests go or didnt the results come back/not been published?

 

[ASC1951]

How did the tests go or didnt the results come back/not been published?

No results yet, even if they have been done. This days it is blood tests with hormone, gene and chromosome analysis, which isn't a five minute job.

I don't think the officials have dealt with the situation very sensibly.

 

[aJohnson]

Just curious, what is it that makes the tyres degrade faster when using a turbo trainer.

 

[Will1985]

Compound? There is quite a lot of heat generated between the tyre and turbo roller.
After use I often find that a normal tyre is hot and a lot of rubber residue/debris around the contact point; the turbo tyre is much cooler and there is little or no yellow rubber left on the turbo.

There is a parallel with racing cars - harder compound tyres lack grip and take longer to heat up but degrade slowly, while soft compound tyres (the "Option" in F1) have more grip, warm up quickly but have a shorter life.

 

[Jonathan M]

Just curious, what is it that makes the tyres degrade faster when using a turbo trainer.

Also the contact point between tyre & roller is smaller, some turbo's come with instructions to reduce the air pressure in the rear tyre to increase resistance, otherwise you can walk away from a turbo session feeling it was easy.

 

[aJohnson]

Are turbo trainers *better* than rollers?

 

[Joe24]

Are turbo trainers *better* than rollers?

For what?

 

[aJohnson]

For what?

For general training, which has the more benefits or which has the more drawbacks.