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Is that your actual saddle height/position? Yikes.
No, that serves as my reminder that I need to raise it again. Yikes – been meaning to do that since I unpacked it last…
haha i was about to comment on the same thing, yikes!!!
Hey, thanks for mentioning my post. It’s an honor. Enjoy Paris. It’s a beautiful place.
To (7):
I have tried to put a smartphone into shirt pockets and they just jump far too much around.
Either using an arm strap or putting it into a backpack worked fine for running.
I really don’t think that these shirts work for runners. Especially when they are fitting to loose (which makes carrying a smartphone even worser while running).
While the Wahoo and the KK had similar dB readings on your sound meter; the sound picked up by your camera sounded to be much more an an annoying whine from the Wahoo, whereas the KK was more white-noisy. Possibly an artifact of how the sound was recorded and played back on the video? I’ve got a KK Road Machine- and have found it very reasonable in its noise level.
It is a touch bit higher pitched, though, probably not as as bad the camera makes it out to be. To put things in perspective, listen for my clicking in. It’s surprisingly darn loud on the camera, but just not that bad in real life.
That’s of course, the challenge with any sound testing – is that it’s really just comparing things, and not truly comparing silence to it. Of course, with the LeMond mixed in there – you can hear the fullness of that sound, and how it’s really just deafening in a room.
Be interesting to know where the sound is coming from on the Wahoo KICKR. If its mostly coming from the big round grate area that in the photo has a black and white striping going around it then it would seem to be easy to build a box of sorts around it using acoustic ceiling tiles or acoustic ridged fiberglass, the hard part is how to allow enough airflow to allow the device to work and not over heat. But guessing you wouldn’t need to completely block airflow just redirect it so sound can be absorbed a bit.
Regarding the tweet about the vapor on the screen, I’ve had that to.
Would love to follow u on Strava so please upload. I sent u a connection on Garmin connect, but does not compare to Strava. (I don’t have a Twitter account so I posted instead).
Would love to see another post on TainerRoad software, I’ts been a year since the last one and it was pretty new back then.
Great blog, keep up the great work.