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[mjd1988]

Random question, anyone set their young kids on a turbo or turboish thing?

little tikes 657917 Pelican Explore and Fit Cycle with Bluetooth, Free Videos, Ages 3-7, Multi-Color https://amzn.eu/d/fYBg8Y0

Also seen that some people just use a smallish actual turbo https://zwiftinsider.com/kids-bike-setup/

 

[Peter Salt]

Random question, anyone set their young kids on a turbo or turboish thing?

little tikes 657917 Pelican Explore and Fit Cycle with Bluetooth, Free Videos, Ages 3-7, Multi-Color https://amzn.eu/d/fYBg8Y0

Also seen that some people just use a smallish actual turbo https://zwiftinsider.com/kids-bike-setup/

What wheel diameter? Have a look at Elite Qubo Fluid - I had success with that - usually plenty of them on the 2nd hand market and I think you should be able to get pretty much anything working with it. Just needs QR skewers to stay in place.

 

[JuhaL]

Don't like Cervelo quality so I order new bike for my indoor sessions. Should be arrived in a January, i hope this is good enough.

 

[cyberknight]

Yes it is, done rotating shift work almost 37-years with different variation and it never come easier.

its better than we had , until a few years ago we did days and nights 7 am till around 4.30 or 8 till around 6 am ish all dependant on overtime call .Those hours sucked , we lost about 0.75% shift allowance overall changing to our new pattern .

 

[mjd1988]

What wheel diameter? Have a look at Elite Qubo Fluid - I had success with that - usually plenty of them on the 2nd hand market and I think you should be able to get pretty much anything working with it. Just needs QR skewers to stay in place.

16 inch? Pretty small

 

[JuhaL]

its better than we had , until a few years ago we did days and nights 7 am till around 4.30 or 8 till around 6 am ish all dependant on overtime call .Those hours sucked , we lost about 0.75% shift allowance overall changing to our new pattern .

Previously when we did 8hr shift we start shift 5:30 am, 1:30 pm and 9:30 pm I was pretty tired after morning shift because I like to sleep "late", I'm not a early bird. Now that we start morning shift 7 am I hope that extra 1hr sleep will give me more energy and make my 12hr shift easier.

 

[Legs]

Random question, anyone set their young kids on a turbo or turboish thing?

little tikes 657917 Pelican Explore and Fit Cycle with Bluetooth, Free Videos, Ages 3-7, Multi-Color https://amzn.eu/d/fYBg8Y0

Also seen that some people just use a smallish actual turbo https://zwiftinsider.com/kids-bike-setup/

My 6yo rides his 20” Orbea MTB on my Tacx Neo 2T without adaptations.

 

[cyberknight]

Previously when we did 8hr shift we start shift 5:30 am, 1:30 pm and 9:30 pm I was pretty tired after morning shift because I like to sleep "late", I'm not a early bird. Now that we start morning shift 7 am I hope that extra 1hr sleep will give me more energy and make my 12hr shift easier.

3 am after last break was the time to avoid me as i was in " i m so tired i want to kill" mode

 

[Peter Salt]

16 inch? Pretty small

I used the Elite with 20 inch wheels without any issues. It seemed like it could go lower but I haven't tested it with anything smaller.

 

[JuhaL]

3 am after last break was the time to avoid me as i was in " i m so tired i want to kill" mode

I can imagine that. It was a long time ago but i remember once when i was working at overtime after a nightshift that was a horrible experience, i felt like a zombie or something. I could fell a sleep while i was walking or just stand up. Never done that anymore after that.

 

[mjd1988]

Some people are better than others at shift work but it is pretty bad for you in the long run. Haven't worked a proper night shift in a long time but the drive home could often be dicey, if you've been awake for 20 hours and worked a busy shift your cognitive impairment was similar to being fairly drunk

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749379714006230

https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2976

 

[JuhaL]

Shift work takes a toll for sure. It's been easy to noticed that my energy level is low quite a long time after a work, even then when I have a summer vacation it might take several weeks that my body start to adapt to normal life rhythm, I would say only just and then start work again. It's not surprise me that I'm much slower now with my bike than 20-years ago. But I try to fight against that.

 

[cyberknight]

Some people are better than others at shift work but it is pretty bad for you in the long run. Haven't worked a proper night shift in a long time but the drive home could often be dicey, if you've been awake for 20 hours and worked a busy shift your cognitive impairment was similar to being fairly drunk

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749379714006230

https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2976

Shift work been shown to shorten life expectancy by up to 10 years , so when the government expects us to work in my case till 67 or even longer for younger people old hands like me wonder how the expect us to continue ? not so bad if you have an office job but I can only manage the job now let alone for another 11 years .
Last night was the 1st time since we finished work over a week ago i have managed to get a full nights sleep in as i was waking up around 4 am no matter what time i went to bed as my early shift alarm is 3.45 am


Anyway back to topic
61 km left for the rapha challenge , i want to get it done and dusted but as above i woke up "late" aka 6.45 am and working around family cant get an hour in till around 10.30 , if i can push on i will try to get it in one session but the legs are tight atm

 

[cyberknight]

Was in the pacer group with Keith Roy last night , no idea who he was but everyone was in hero worship mode so i just googled and im not surprised.
https://zwiftinsider.com/keith-roy/

 

[alex_cycles]

Was in the pacer group with Keith Roy last night , no idea who he was but everyone was in hero worship mode so i just googled and im not surprised.
https://zwiftinsider.com/keith-roy/

Call me a grumpy old git, but that's one of the reasons I have chat switched off.