Power meter usage, every ride?

[Strawburger]

Hi All,

Hopefully a quick question. Do you track every ride you do with a power meter or only power specific rides?

Why I ask is I vary my rides (commute, training, racing) so I'm wondering if I should log everything or just specific training and racing rides? Does not tracking commutes throw out CTL significantly?

cheers

SB

[ZepinAtor]

Coaches orders !!! EVERY ride !!!

As far as I know your T.S.B (training stress balance), C.T.L (chronic training load--long term) & A.T.L (active training load--short term) are all effected to some degree by every ride you do.

If you don't track every ride the accuracy of your recovery periods would be thrown out as would everything else for that matter.

A good example would be if you had a tough TT session planned for the evening (say 5 x 10 min flat out) & you did a 50km commute on the same day your results could look quite poor or down on the norm.

If your 50km commute was taken into account your daily session would most probably be changed to 50km endurance & 2 x 10 min TT that evening.

Depends how serious you are about the whole thing really ?

[twizzle]

Log everything.

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Hi All,

Hopefully a quick question. Do you track every ride you do with a power meter or only power specific rides?

Why I ask is I vary my rides (commute, training, racing) so I'm wondering if I should log everything or just specific training and racing rides? Does not tracking commutes throw out CTL significantly?

cheers

SB

Commuting is part of CTL.

[Strawburger]

Great! That confirms what I had thought. Thank you all for your help.

For people logging every ride, what solutions do they use for multiple bikes (ie road, tt & track)? Do they invest in multiple pm's? Eg. crank based for road/tt (easy swap) and hub based for track?

Thanks again

[Nobody]

Just wait until they are cheap enough to put on every bike. By then, it might not matter anymore and you've saved a lot of money. Just a thought. OK I'll get out off this thread now and let you get back to spending.

[twizzle]

Great! That confirms what I had thought. Thank you all for your help.

For people logging every ride, what solutions do they use for multiple bikes (ie road, tt & track)? Do they invest in multiple pm's? Eg. crank based for road/tt (easy swap) and hub based for track?

Thanks again

I have two PowerTaps one built into an open-pro (yuck!), one build into a Deep-V (heavy). jcjordan has a Power2Max crank, it takes him about ten minutes to swap it between bikes. Given that PT's aren't cheap any more (no base "Comp" model any more), a crank based might make more sense... but you still end up with a seperate "track" setup, and there's always the temptation to have spare setups to ensure you don't have any down time. I'm not sure about this "left crank only" power meter which is coming out shortly, most people favour one leg, and the %'age of difference probably changes between endurance / sprint / climbing. Rotor is bringing out 'dual' crank arms soon, looks nicely thought out.

[ZepinAtor]

For people logging every ride, what solutions do they use for multiple bikes ?........ Do they invest in multiple pm's?

Unfortunately yes.

Otherwise you can play the swap the PT wheel from bike to bike game.

I was really looking forward to the release of the pedal based (Vector) system which is on hold indefinitely.

Although when looking at the Vector system it looked like the individual batteries/transmitters on each crank arm needed quite a bit of frame clearance + there wasn't any mention of an MTB style pedal. Which come to think of it would be interesting when crunching the occasional rock or log.

[Alex Simmons/RST]

You can of course simply estimate TSS for non-power meter rides - much depends on what you are using the data for, and what proportion of the data will be estimated versus actual.

[ZepinAtor]

Has anybody had any experience with the ibike Newton ?

I have no idea about this devise, but I have a friend who's interested.

[twizzle]

Has anybody had any experience with the ibike Newton ?

I have no idea about this devise, but I have a friend who's interested.

Still shite.


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[Ross]

I was really looking forward to the release of the pedal based (Vector) system which is on hold indefinitely.

The Polar Look Keo pedals are available but are around $1700 and aren't ANT+ compatible

[jcjordan]

I was really looking forward to the release of the pedal based (Vector) system which is on hold indefinitely.

The Polar Look Keo pedals are available but are around $1700 and aren't ANT+ compatible

And based on every review I have seen so far is less reliable then their older system.


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[Strawburger]

Thanks again for all your info. Looks like a costly exercise if I'm to put pm's on the road/tt and track bike if going for new equipment (slightly better for 2nd hand). Don't see many 2nd hand powertaps around for the track.

Polar is out (I'm decked out in ant+), haven't heard good things about the stageone, ibike is also not flash so may have to get a crank pm now (srm/quark/p2m) and wait for the vector sometime in the next 10 years

[toolonglegs]

I am still thinking of getting another power meter. But racing in cyclocross, TT, MTB and road there is no way I will be putting a meter on every bike. I think once you have spent a bit of time training to a power meter then you know what feels right for an effort anyway. If I do get a powertap then it will only be used for testing... just a confirmation that everything is going to plan.
Although Strava has a habit of telling me if I am on plan as well. My 5 second power is genetic... all the rest 1,5,20 and hour power I can easily test on a climb or a loop and compare to when I know I was riding strong.
But then I seem to ride better on feel than looking at numbers.

[nickobec]

Yes track everything, particularly my commute aka training rides. Those done with out a power meter ie my singlespeed and six speed I estimate my TSS, usually based on HR, perceived exertion, time and weather conditions on a known route with lots of existing data.

Have Elite+ Powertap laced to mavic open pro rim as my training wheelset, ended up rebuilding it after 5 broken spokes, complete wheelset (front & rear) weights over 3kg.

So got a G3 PT and laced that to 50mm lightweight chinese carbon rim, depending if I use 60mm or 38mm matching front wheelset is close to 900m lighter for my racing wheelset. Having some issues with transmitting data, if the new firmware does not fix my powercap (not the whole wheel or hub) is off to Wisconsin.

2nd hand power meters from the UK (this is where I bought my Elite+ wheel from) : http://www.cyclepowermeters.com/used-ex-rental-powermeters-141-c.asp

And if you are after G3 PT hub, little over $1k from the US

[twizzle]

So got a G3 PT...

*sigh*

I'm jealous.

[toolonglegs]

So got a G3 PT...

*sigh*

I'm jealous.

Why?... you make 360 w ish at ftp .

[twizzle]

So got a G3 PT...

*sigh*

I'm jealous.

Why?... you make 360 w ish at ftp .

My "comp" models are getting a little old. Pawls sticking in the freehubs, replacement freehubs only seem to come in alloy, not steel. The wiring harness is a bit fragile, the wires fatigue and die. The docking station suffers from the pins sticking... A G3 in 28 spoke with a carbon rim and a Garmin 800 are high on my wish list. Right after "lose another 9Kg".

93.4Kg - weight has plateaued again.

[snedden9485]

Power2max. $1100 AU and swaps between bikes in 3 min. Easy.

[toolonglegs]

[quote="nickobec"]So got a G3 PT...

*sigh*

I'm jealous.

Why?... you make 360 w ish at ftp .

My "comp" models are getting a little old. Pawls sticking in the freehubs, replacement freehubs only seem to come in alloy, not steel. The wiring harness is a bit fragile, the wires fatigue and die. The docking station suffers from the pins sticking... A G3 in 28 spoke with a carbon rim and a Garmin 800 are high on my wish list. Right after "lose another 9Kg".

93.4Kg - weight has plateaued again. [/quote]
Cyclepowermeters.com have or are going to do ti freewheel bodies.

[mikesbytes]

Has anyone investigated the power meters that work within pedals? I too are wondering about the swap between bikes situation.

I do see you can get a crank set that can be used with one track ring or 2 road rings (AT) BCD144, which limits your small ring to ? 42

[orbeas]

im suprised their isnt an Iphone app for that or is their

[clackers]

:idea: im suprised their isnt an Iphone app for that or is their

That makes up "power" numbers without the necessary sensors, Orbeas? I'm sure there is!

[toolonglegs]

It's called Strava