The power of advertising, eh? Don’t know if you’ve noticed but you can’t move for Google ads advertising the Wattbike on road.cc. Anyway, we bowed to the pressure and asked them for one. One duly arrived, now it’s sitting in the back room (scuse the mess). I’ve done a couple of longer sessions on it and it’s mostly good news, lots of numbers and a good feel. The climb knob’s a bit fiddly though. Look out for a full review when I’ve had more time on it…
Just in: the Wattbike
Tue, Jan 20, 2009 20:56
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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ajd 57 minutes ago
I heard she thought fixies were very lower class. She was once overheard saying "let them ride Campag"
Barraob1 1 hour ago
Most people know peadar is a bit of a clown and would say anything to grab votes.
IanMK 2 hours ago
@mitsky he will be interested to know there's quite a good rail service in to Swansea. It's only six months which is pretty light imo.
IanMK 2 hours ago
'This experience has been a significant wake-up call for me and I can assure the court that I have reflected seriously on my actions and taken steps to ensure this will never happen again' Perhaps the six points you already had on your licence should have been the wake up call. Also, if I'm a judge, I'm thinking not bothering to show up in court doesn't scream remorseful. You are NOT a victim here Mr Cabango.
ktache 2 hours ago
I really enjoyed Bastie Tronchon's victory.
Mr Blackbird 5 hours ago
@the little onion It is quite galling to read that Cabango is the Swansea Captain. He is hardly setting a good example to his team mates and fans etc.
a1white 5 hours ago
@leedorney Great, me neither, but reviews are written for people other than you and I. These are "Tubeless Ready" tyres. They are marketed to work as Tubeless, so it wouldn't be good if the reviewer didn't test them as tubeless for those buying them for tubeless use.
mitsky 5 hours ago
@wtjs Entirely possible that it was a lie. Given the ban is in place, if he doesn't move his family could he be charged with lying in court?
a1white 5 hours ago
@tomlew With that logic we should ban all laptops and mobile phones from trains.
wtjs 5 hours ago
@mitsky the ban would require him to move his family He was just telling a tale- it would be easier and cheaper to just pay for a driver/ chauffeur! Bet he doesn't move.
2 thoughts on “Just in: the Wattbike”
I think I’ll stick with Fortius
That is an expensive piece of kit, but seems to lack a lot of the motivational aspects of VR type trainers. A kind of souped up Spin bike really.
I’ll be interested to see what you think of it, as I have spent so much time on the turbo this winter rather than out in the slippery real world, I’m starting to think that cycling on the road is the simulation of turbo training!
especially when…
for the price of a wattbike you can have a fortius and a dedicated computer. and a bike 🙂
depends whet you’re looking for – the Wattbike does have some really interesting tools for measuring your stroke and stuff, i can see how track riders would take to it: if it’s a numbers game (which track effectively is) then the Wattbike has more numbers than anything else i’ve seen…