The Wahooligan Tour STAGE 4: On Location Portugal - Nazaré to Foz do Arelho

Challenges and Achievements The Wahooligan Tour
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This thread is killing me😂 all the it related IT replies and all I can think is man, chapeau to you for sticking with the tour in the middle of power outages/impending possible emergency! Take care of yourself.

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That is why I mentioned the Tacx. The Tacx can run on the power you generate. I do not think it would work on a Kickr.

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Here is something easier than training monkeys.

Get a packet sniffer, learn the structure of the packets that the trainer is sending to the application server (Sufferfest, Zwift, Rouvy, etc.,) and you can simulate whatever power/cadence/heart ride you want from the comfort of your computer screen.

For all I know Couchlandrian scientists (and people who want to cheat on Zwift races) are working on this right now. PKI might solve this, but I do not know of any work being done on that.

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I’ll give you that, @Heretic. Maybe not on Systm/Suff, but as much as they’ve monetized and incentivized competitions in Z**** this wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Digital doping?

Monkeys would still be more fun. Maybe chimps? I have to think they could put down some crazy power numbers.

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:see_no_evil: :hear_no_evil: :speak_no_evil:

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I only mentioned platforms on Sufferfest and Rouvy because of the context of the original comment.

Since you quoted some science, in reality training primates is very difficult. The safety precautions alone, for example, to avoid mutual disease exchange, are very challenging.

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No tandem bike… :white_check_mark:
separate towels… :white_check_mark:
no sharing holy water… :white_check_mark:

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:rofl: :joy: :rofl:

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Only the new Gen Tacx Neo 2 can do this…use the power you generate to control erg and transmit power. Although I think one of their original semi smart trainers also can…transmit power but not control resistance.

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I have a first generation Tacx Neo 2, and the first thing I did in the bicycle store before I bought it, was to try that feature out.

I should have said Tacx Neo though.

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The Tacx NeoSmart Bike runs without mains too, basically a Neo 2 with a frame & screen of course. It’s quite cool (literally) knowing the fans are being powered by your legs!

A while back someone tripped over the power cable & broke the DC socket, but it meant we could still use it until I could get in there with soldering iron & epoxy… :mechanic:t3:

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