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OPINION
Just in: the Wattbike
Tue, Jan 20, 2009 20:56
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Wattbike in the playroomThe power of advertising, eh? Don't know if you've noticed but you can't move for Google ads advertising the Wattbike on road.cc. Anyway, we bowed to the pressure and asked them for one. One duly arrived, now it's sitting in the back room (scuse the mess). I've done a couple of longer sessions on it and it's mostly good news, lots of numbers and a good feel. The climb knob's a bit fiddly though. Look out for a full review when I've had more time on it...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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- Keykey1985 56 min 36 sec ago
He wasn't brake-checking me, he was trying to get me to stop. Nothing good would have come from me stopping.
- PRSboy 1 hour 14 min ago
It was designed around 28mm tyres but there's lots of clearance and could certainly take bigger tyres.
- Cugel 1 hour 17 min ago
A dinosaur version is shurely for the kiddies. Myself I'd like The Hindenburg. There may be The Freisian, filled with methane rather than hydrogen,...
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 18 min ago
No evidence on the video of any interaction between themselves and the cyclist so possibly they simply didn't get the reg number?
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 31 min ago
When I see SLOW HORSES I always think ah, so this is where the ones I bet on are kept...
- ktache 2 hours 6 min ago
The proximity to the Transport Research Labs at Crowthorne means that the area often gets weird new stuff.
- chrisonabike 2 hours 12 min ago
No great mystery in either case, surely? Both US politician and the motor trade say "choose us and your life will be better and easier!" And other...
- stonojnr 4 hours 24 min ago
theres an attitude I encounter alot locally, and demonstrated in bucket loads by drivers on my commute home tonight, that cyclists shouldnt be on...
- Keesvant 5 hours 44 min ago
If the chains snap that is lack of build quality or material.....
- Hirsute 6 hours 40 min ago
"Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good."
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That is an expensive piece of kit, but seems to lack a lot of the motivational aspects of VR type trainers. A kind of souped up Spin bike really.
I'll be interested to see what you think of it, as I have spent so much time on the turbo this winter rather than out in the slippery real world, I'm starting to think that cycling on the road is the simulation of turbo training!
for the price of a wattbike you can have a fortius and a dedicated computer. and a bike
depends whet you're looking for - the Wattbike does have some really interesting tools for measuring your stroke and stuff, i can see how track riders would take to it: if it's a numbers game (which track effectively is) then the Wattbike has more numbers than anything else i've seen...