Compu Trained

I gotta friend that owns a bike shop.

As the link points out he recently bought a second shop.

The new shop has an 8 bike CompuTrainer setup.

Besides hot, sweaty and painful what's an 8 bike CompuTrainer setup?

This.

It's sort of like a Spin class, but a little more sophisticated. We actually use our own bikes attached to stationary trainers and all kinds of electronics. The electronics do things like measure heart rate, rpm, wattage, speed, etc. The electronics also make it harder by applying more resistance to your wheel.

Apply resistance and make it harder?

Everything is linked to a computer and displayed on a screen, so it's a virtual race.

Yeah. A race.

If you look close at the top of screen you'll see the brown that resembles a landscape profile. That's exactly what it is. When the brown goes up, that's a hill and the resistance gets harder (theoretically, it didn't seem to work like that for all of us).

Pretty neat huh?

Uh-huh. Try it. The novelty wears off as fast as you realize you're getting dropped or busting your ass to stay out front of a bunch of guys that aren't actually going anywhere.

At least we had libations to dull the pain.

And a rabbit to chase.

Now if I could only figure out how to draft in this setup.

- b