Training & Nutrition - Wattage Equvalents for a Blackburn Trainer

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howsteepisit
09-26-06, 05:32 PM
Has anybody here ever seen a table or chart of MPH vs wattage for a Blackburn fluid Trainer? It would seem that there should be such a critter available.

Thanks

kill.cactus
01-02-08, 09:31 PM
*Bump*

I'm looking for this exact information as well (Trackstand Fluid)
chuckb
01-04-08, 08:38 AM
*Bump*

I'm looking for this exact information as well (Trackstand Fluid)

Here is what you're looking for. The folks at Kurt Kinetic have done parameterized power curves for many trainers. See the table referenced on this page. Somewhere on the KK site there is also a graph of these curves, I think.

http://www.kurtkinetic.com/computer_tech.php

Ditka
01-04-08, 11:48 AM
Don't mean to hi-jack the Blackburn search, but when I used the KK formulas (I have a Cyclops fluid) it showed my 20 min wattage (23.3 MPH for 20 min) at 525!

Not sure how good these formulas are.
Athens80
01-04-08, 06:55 PM
Here is what you're looking for. The folks at Kurt Kinetic have done parameterized power curves for many trainers. See the table referenced on this page. Somewhere on the KK site there is also a graph of these curves, I think.

http://www.kurtkinetic.com/computer_tech.php

I find the Kurt Kinetic data at http://www.kurtkinetic.com/powercurve.php, http://www.kurtkinetic.com/documents/Power_Curves419.pdf, and http://www.kurtkinetic.com/calibration_chart.php .

Attached is a graph of the curves.