On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 5:11:01 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 6:01:41 AM UTC+1, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 2:48:46 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 8:12:19 PM UTC+1, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 10:49:34 AM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/22/2020 12:30 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
Looking at Trek Madone frames I see on the off-side chainstay that there is something called a "Duotrap" by Bontrager - can anyone tell me what this thing is and what it does?


https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/e...ensor/p/12319/

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Unfortunately like a lot of Trek stuff they do a very poor job of explaining its actual use. Is it a cadence sensor? Is it a speedo? One of the outside comments mentioned that it pairs with Strava. Well, I think that I used Strava at one time and didn't like that everyone in the world had access to your courses and speeds.

Riding buddy has one of those. It is a speed/cadence sensor combo.
You can keep your Strava data privat in the privacy settings if you want but that is not the idea of Strava. Are your courses and speed secret? If so why are you babbling about your average speeds in this newgroup?

Lou

When Strava started I would post my rides and times. The idea was to advertise routes and not speed. But that wasn't the way it was treated. It would start competitions over routes which of course always leads to people taking unnecessary chances just so they can beat someone on the road.

I agree with you that racing segments can lead to people taking risks to beat a time (your own best time or someone else his time). But as with many other things use it wisely. People soon find out that racing other people times is useless because they could be 20 years younger, have more talent and set their time with a strong tail wind. For myself I defined my own segments along my favorite routes on safe stretches and use it to motivate me for doing intervals. I can enable and disable every segment on my Garmin. When enabled I get a popup on my screen that I approach the enabled segment and I should get ready to 'race', in my case against my own personal best. I like this feature. But like I said you don't have to use it.

Lou

My weakness is really that I don't know what a recovery ride is. I can do intervals just on a normal ride because there are so many climbs around here that you are doing close to FPT quite a bit. That is the same as sprinting.. Intervals are easy as well as TT's. But when I try a "recovery ride" I have the idea I'm always riding too slow.