Originally Posted by
DaveWC
I bought a 50mm Carbon Clincher with a Powertap Pro+ from Boyd Cycling and combined it with a Garmin 500. Today was my first ride with all of that. I intended to just go out and ride my normal 24km round trip ride and see what the info looked like. At about the 6km mark I leave the city, cross the railroad tracks & typically pick up speed as there is an 8' shoulder from there. So naturally I decided to see what the next 20 minutes would look like for an FTP test. For my first attempt, and an ill-planned attempt at that, I'm pretty happy.
From this I see my 20 minute wattage is 282, so less 5% that equates to 268. I weigh 84kg so that's 3.19 w/kg. I can live with that as a start.
As far as the equipment goes, I love it. Boyd is an awesome vendor and the equipment arrived really fast considering they had to build the wheel. The Garmin is a real step up from the Bontrager Trip 2 I was used to using.
Any comments are welcome.
no offense but a can of Alpo would be an improvement on a Bontrager trip2, butt it's still runner-up. the wiener award goes to the Neos pro+ that would have me believe I gained 10 feet in altitude by going around the block. and after every bath it wants to play peekaboo.
good luck with the new gear. Boyd is on my letter to santa.