Tour De Shore Stage 1, 202 km Deep Cove/Horseshoe/UBC/Alpe D'Seymour
Shoots with Nikon D2H
sweet thanks for the info.. is powertap the same thing?
Nope. The Polar PM is the "poor dude's/chick's powertap". I don't own one, but I believe there are raging debates about how accurate the Polar method is (it uses some funky chain vibration method to indirectly measure chain tension and speed which it then converts into Watts). See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling-power_meters
or google polar power meters (or polar power output sensor):
D.
The serious guys use a Powertap (hub) or SRM (crank) for measuring watts.
I have no experience with either.
"The song of a bird…We used to ask Ennesson to do bird calls. He could do them. How he could do them, and when he perished, along with him went all those birds…"-Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem
"We just walk around, and sometimes we go out and dance, and then we listen to the environment."-Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk
The serious guys use a Powertap (hub) or SRM (crank) for measuring watts.
I have no experience with either.
As a competitor for SRM the Ergomo is gaining popularity in Europe, it's another german made bottom bracket replacement power meter. Square taper so most commonly used with Chorus or Record cranks. They're a lot less expensive than SRM, around 800 euros, and just as accurate.
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out."
- The Daily Telegraph (1877)
Garmin makes a HR monitor with GPS that my dad uses, he likes it a lot. You can link it to google earth and map your route, which is pretty sweet.
Way back from the old school days of NSMB…
That is very impressive. A friend of my wife is a member of the randonneurs riding club and on the weekend she did the 300 km ride in 16.5 hours. I was super impressed and I am thinking of doing the 600 km ride with her next year. For those who are wondering how far 300 km is, it is from my house in Coquitlam to Merritt! Geez.
I am a vegetarian not because I love animals but because I HATE plants.
It could be worse…you could be on fire.
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