It’s at this point that I pondered how to turn it vertical on my shoe-laces, to see if that made a difference. I got absolutely nothing actually registered on the phone, while the exercise bike showed RPM: I figured maybe the motion would still somehow work: So tonight, I set out with the standard Wahoo RPM packaging, plopped it on the beach-cruiser seat of the hotel gym bike, and got ready to begin tinkering.įirst, before I dealt with any of the zip ties or sticky tape, I decided to be lazy and just see if setting it on top of my shoe laces would work. Because of the way it’s designed with the rubber case system, you could actually have it for your regular bike, and then when you head to the gym/hotel trip, simply pop it out of the little rubber case and take it with you.
#Spinning bike computer full#
At some point between now and the future I’ll put together a full review when I dig more into accuracy outdoors on a bike (things like stability on rough roads, limitations of cadence levels, etc…). My experience is solely on a hotel gym bike in Helsinki. I haven’t spent any time with it outdoors yet, or on a real bike. I posted about it when they first announced it back at Interbike. *Detour – Wahoo RPM Backgrounder: The RPM is a small Bluetooth Smart pod that’s designed to attach to your bike crank arm, and measure cadence without any magnets – using accelerometers instead. I figured I’d then perhaps come up with some clever solution involving Velcro. Hardly ideal for a gym bike, but certainly doable. By default, it comes with zip ties and stickies. Initially, I figured I’d have to strap it to the crank arm in some manner. And every single time I’d check into a hotel I’d plan to see if I could execute my vision of somehow tweaking the little blue sensor and making it work for a hotel exercise bike to get cadence information.
Hotel, cycling studio, gym, rec center, etc…įor the last few months I’d been carrying around the Wahoo RPM* in my travel suitcase. Basically – a bike you don’t own, and can’t mess with. One question I get a lot is how to measure cadence on an indoor spin bike, or gym stationary bike. Or at least, I had an improvement upon an idea that I had planned for months.
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