My Muscle bike (pic)

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http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x41/cyclingfrenchie/Powercrankedbike.jpg
Well, This is my family bike. Meaning a nice bike to ride with the wifey and still get a hell of a work out.
This is also my torture bike, and Powercranks seem to suit my masochistic instincts so well …

As a time constrained Dad, I reckon this fat bastard should help me make the most of my limited training time.
Got it on Friday, tried it right away. Wow, you’re in for some trouble, son.
First real trainer session was Saturday morning, I did a 75 minutes work-out alternating 30s left leg / 30s right leg / repeat then 3 minutes both legs. When I got off the bike i could barely lift my legs to get my shoes off!
On Sunday my legs were toast.
Monday 75 minutes on the trainer before breakfast, 50 minutes in the park at lunchtime : this was the best part, gaping mouths and dropped jaws when trying the ab-burning dolphin kick.
This morning 90 minutes trainer session. Making a little headway.

Bottom line is “Got Rotorcranks on my racing bike, PCs on my training bike… mmmh, must have spent some time lurking on ST ;-)”

Thank you Frank and Andrew for your help. This new toy crossed the pond mighty fast, and it looks like I am already having some fun!

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With the PCs, why are you bothering to alternate legs?

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To get the non revolving one some rest. Ouch. These things hurt.
I hope to be able not to have to alternate sometime in the near future, but so far I cannot seem to have enough endurance to work both legs together for more that 6/7 minutes. Then it is either alternating legs or coasting (not an option on the trainer).

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nice bike, but ‘interesting’ stem …

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… just tryin’ to minimize the drop, at least for a while.

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I thought I should add here that although I have been training quite extensively on a fixie over the last 2 years, my first contact with PCs was rather painful and ego-bashing ;-).
This means imho that, if fixies and PCs are both tools meant to smoothen out one’s stroke, they must act in quite dissimilar fashion (no s… Sherlock!).
I tend to think of my fixie as my “quad bike”, while my PC bike would be more Hamies/HF oriented…
Anybody tried both a fixie and PCs? Waddyathink?