hubcyclist

Power Curves | PowerCurve Sensor

I was looking to see if I could find a power curves for my travel trac 3 fluid trainer, seems like nothing specific out there but came across this link and thought I'd share. Using the newer travel trac fluid trainer and generic fluid trainer profiles, and assuming mine is similar to these, my threshold power appears to be around 240 or 250, at 70kg that would be 3.5 W/kg. are power profiles among fluid trainers largely similar or are my reference points way off? Curious to see what more knowledgable folks have to say

Spld cyclist

Looking at the different shapes of some of the curves, I wouldn't count on these numbers being accurate. My thought is that the fluid resistance units may be shared among different brands (maybe there might not actually be very many factories making these things). There may be a published curve for some trainer that uses the same unit. Or perhaps the newer travel trac uses the same unit as the old version that is shown at the link....

hubcyclist

Yeah, I downloaded PerfPro studio and was looking at the power profiles they have for fluid trainers and the one listed as the performance travel trac fluid has me at 200w at 20mph, which puts me at my threshold, which sounds more consistent with my level (I'm a new cat 5 racer and just started riding 14 months ago, so 2.86 w/kg is a lot more consistent with my level as a cat 5 as opposed to 3.5 w/kg, which the ever popular power profile chart classifies as a high cat 4/low cat 3)