Hi,
I have a Cyclops Fluid2 trainer and just recently got a power tap. I am finding it much harder to maintain a given wattage on the this trainer as compared to other trainers or even the open road. Perhaps I don’t understand the mechanism underlying a power meter, but I was under the assumption that a watt is a watt. In other words, I did not think the resistance mattered when you are trying to maintain a given wattage???
I personally find the Cyclops Fluid2 trainer to be a complete This word is not allowed which means I'm not being very nice at the moment and I am not wild about how it feels when riding either. I can hammer like crazy and in the end it looks like someone turned a fire hose on me and my quads and hip flexors are toast, but my heart rate and watts are not where I want them to be. Might be a leg strength issue for me. But in any case, I put up higher power (and heart rates) on the road and on the CT. It is a very tough trainer.
The charts I’ve seen indicate that this is 20-30% harder than other fluid trainers, and
‘real’ road resistance is supposed to be about halfway between these and other fluid trainers. I like mine, but it is much harder than my old one, in any given gear.
Thanks,
This is what I am looking for. It would be great if I could have some rough conversion factors, especially between the Fluid2 and Computrainer.
I have aPDF file from Dr Dre’ with this info, but I don’t know how to put it on here. Anyone know how.
I did my ramp up test on my Fluid2 and it was way off and I mean way off!!!
part of it may have been that I didn’t reset the torque to zero on my Powertap before the test. Not sure. but right away it felt like I was pushing about 100 to 120 Watts more than what my power tap showed. and i pretty much went hard on the ramp up test. I then tried to reset the torque and did the test on my rollers. and it instantly seemed to me that the wattage was reading correctly. although i had to back it down at the very end as i almost fell off the rollers!!! I guess that is why they say don’t do the ramp up test on rollers. I just wanted a ballpark figure of Watts.
So i will have to try the test again some time in the near future. But I will zero out the torque and see if it reads accurately this time.