Flow

I just bought myself a trainer. It's a Tacx Flow. It has a bunch of slick features. It lets me monitor my speed, cadence, heart rate, power output, along with a bunch of other settings that I will probably never use. But hands down, my favorite part of my new purchase was the little tag hanging off the trainer with this picture on it...



When the ToC comes my way, I am going to track Jens down and get him to sign it. He will too. And he can sign it in any of eight languages. He is that kind of a guy...

My first discovery upon using the Flow is that I am now able to see exactly how few sustained watts I am capable of producing during a given period of time. Truly underwhelming. Before, I could only speculate. Now, I have empirical evidence. Jens puts out more sustained watts posing with these two podium girls that I do on my vintage Paletti.

And my second discovery is that it appears that either my cranks, my bottom bracket, or my chain rings (or all three) are bent. When I look down, they seem to be rotating in an odd ellipsoid, Bio Pace fashion... but horizontally. Perhaps its just an optical illusion caused by my not perfectly true rear wheel moving from left to right slightly on the roller as I peddle away in my living room? Or perhaps it was the leftover Indian food I had just eaten...