Question folks…
I have a lemond trainer and was hoping for the distance to work on my grmin indoors. I turn off GPS and rely on my speed and cadence sesor. Cadence works but no distance. How do I get distance to work?
Thanks
There is a magnet on the “wheel”. You need to align your speed sensor with this magnet. If you have the Garmin speed/cadence sensor you can’t align both the cadence and speed. You need two separate sensors.
I have “one” garmin speed/cadence sensor. Sensor on chain stay.Magnet on pedal, magnet on spoke, I get both reading. Am I misunderstading your post?
Question folks…
I have a lemond trainer and was hoping for the distance to work on my grmin indoors. I turn off GPS and rely on my speed and cadence sesor. Cadence works but no distance. How do I get distance to work?
Thanks
You can’t…not easily anyway…especially since the Garmins will ONLY recognize their combined speed/cadence sensors.
Besides, why do you need distance on a trainer? It doesn’t mean anything there anyway…
WOW!!
So it won’t work?
Have t do some 6x75 meter sprints, 250 meters, and 350 meters… Etc…
I guess i’ll just do it by time…
Power pilot is the solution? So expensive…
Question folks…
I have a lemond trainer and was hoping for the distance to work on my grmin indoors. I turn off GPS and rely on my speed and cadence sesor. Cadence works but no distance. How do I get distance to work?
Thanks
You can’t…not easily anyway…especially since the Garmins will ONLY recognize their combined speed/cadence sensors.
Besides, why do you need distance on a trainer? It doesn’t mean anything there anyway…
Not true. Garmins will recognize any ANT+ sensors. I use a Bontrager speed sensor to get speed on my bikes with Garmin head unit. It works with the Lemond as well. I do use a Quarq so I pull cadence from there.
WOW!!
So it won’t work?
Have t do some 6x75 meter sprints, 250 meters, and 350 meters… Etc…
I guess i’ll just do it by time…
Power pilot is the solution? So expensive…
Just get another speed sensor. You may have to get a cadence sensor because I am not sure if you can just pull cadence from the Garmin speed/cadence sensor.
I picked up the bontrager speed and cadence sensors. It works, but it’s an awkward tape job for the speed. Since my injury, I stopped using speed and just work on time.
I think it’s a shame Lemond doesn’t offer a speed/distance sensor.
Yes the Garmin sensor can have both speed and cadence at the same time on one sensor. You do not need two sensors. If you just want cadence and not speed just remove the wheel magnet and you wont get speed.
For the OP remember distance and speed will be off when your on a trainer in relation to effort. Cadence is about the only reliable metric you can count on with this set up.
You need two sensors if you want both speed and cadence with the Lemond trainer. The “wheel” on the Lemond trainer is much smaller than a normal wheel and has a built in magnet. Unless you have 400mm crank arms you can’t use the Garmin speed/cadence sensor to get both on the Lemond trainer.
Not true. Garmins will recognize any ANT+ sensors. I use a Bontrager speed sensor to get speed on my bikes with Garmin head unit. It works with the Lemond as well. I do use a Quarq so I pull cadence from there.
Older Garmins like the Edge 705 and possibly the 310XT will only work with combined speed/cadence sensors like the Garmin GSC10 and the Bontrager Duotrap. They do not have profiles to pair with standalone speed sensors or cadence sensors. Newer Garmins like the Edge 500 and 800 will work with the standalone sensors.
To use an older Garmin with the Lemond, you’d need to choose between speed or cadence and mount the sensor accordingly. You could possibly hack the GSC10 by unscrewing the speed pick-up and lengthening the wires so it reaches the magnet on the Revolution, but this would likely leave it inoperable for anything but IDT rides.
The Power Pilot system adds a separate speed sensor and cadence sensor and uses the data from the speed sensor to calculate power.
Question folks…
I have a lemond trainer and was hoping for the distance to work on my grmin indoors. I turn off GPS and rely on my speed and cadence sesor. Cadence works but no distance. How do I get distance to work?
Thanks
You can’t…not easily anyway…especially since the Garmins will ONLY recognize their combined speed/cadence sensors.
Besides, why do you need distance on a trainer? It doesn’t mean anything there anyway…
Not true. Garmins will recognize any ANT+ sensors. I use a Bontrager speed sensor to get speed on my bikes with Garmin head unit. It works with the Lemond as well. I do use a Quarq so I pull cadence from there.
Which Garmin? I know on a 705 that the only speed sensor it recognizes is the Garmin speed/cadence sensor…in fact, in the ANT+ setup screen it only asks if the “cadence sensor” is available, and if you tell it to pair with a speed sensor (I actually just tried it with the LeMond speed sensor) it doesn’t find anything.
Now then, the 705 is the only Garmin I have experience with…so, others (like the 500, etc.) might allow other speed sensors…
Hey CokeZero - I think I have a simple solution to your question about the LeMond Trainer. After some forum reading and tinkering I tried the following: place the Garmin speed/cadence sensor on the fan case (right where it says “Drive Technology” and align the sensor arm to be close to the small magnet in the belt wheel of the LeMond trainer. I used a thing called Joe’s Sticky Stuff to adhere the sensor and it seems to work. Not permanent, but stable. My Garmin is detecting speed and distance as if reading a wheel magnet.
You can’t read cadence with this set up because the crank arm magnet doesn’t register on the unit.
More info - Sorry, the sensor registers but it’s not accurate and non-permanent attachment vibrates loose, but the positioning is good… Fail for now.
Older Garmins like the Edge 705 and possibly the 310XT will only work with combined speed/cadence sensors like the Garmin GSC10 and the Bontrager Duotrap.
The 310XT supports separate speed and cadence sensors, which is what you need to do with the Lemond trainer if you want to measure both of these. Search the forum and some folks have posted pictures on where to place your speed sensor. Currently, I’m using the Bontrager speed-only (was on clearance on their website) and now that I found a good deal on one, I’m getting my cadence-only sensor soon (http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=4945425).
You can use the speed part of the Garmin speed/cadence sensor, but at least with the 310xt, there wasn’t any way to use only part of that. i.e. You can’t use the cadence from the combined speed/cadence sensor and the speed from a different sensor. If you want both speed/distance and cadence on the Lemond, you need two sensors. There are some other threads on hacking the Garmin combined sensor apart to give more distance between them, but that wasn’t something I wanted to mess with.
Cheers!
hey i know this is a little different than your post but if are looking for distance but dont have power yet you can pick up the new WattBox from them and you will get everything but cadence which you already have a sensor for… i got it on presale for 199
just fyi
hey i know this is a little different than your post but if are looking for distance but dont have power yet you can pick up the new WattBox from them and you will get everything but cadence which you already have a sensor for… i got it on presale for 199
Any word from on when you’re getting yours? I also pre-ordered and they billed it right away, but no word yet. I saw on their Facebook that they’re supposed to get them this week, but I haven’t heard anything official yet.
BTW, are there devices which support speed from speed-only ANT+ and cadence from speed/cadence ANT+? The 310XT doesn’t, but I don’t know about others. I kinda doubt it.