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I think I am going to embrace my much ignored turbo trainer over the Xmas & winter period.
I have an old wooden metronome, but it then clicks away at a fixed cadence for 30 minutes only.
Is there anything out there that's designed to mix it up so that the BPM / cadence goes up, goes down (repeat)?
What mobile phone do you have - lots of metronome programs for phones, and you can stick it on the bars so you can easily change the tempo.
Or, if you know what the tempos are you want, you could record a load of clicks into an mp3 using a sequencer program on your computer and play it back on your mp3 player / computer or something.
Joe
I'd thought about that, making my own "tape" (I'm an oldie) and playing it back.
The phone is a new Nokia 6303c and I have no idea how it's many functions might work - although I do have a manual somewhere!
http://software.aziraphal.com/Metronome.php will probably work on your phone (assuming you have a usb cable to get the software onto the phone).
I have a somewhat quicker to use piece of metronome software that I wrote (with big visible digits, so you don't need to squint at a tiny screen) but I don't know if it'll work on your phone (and I don't have it handy right now).
Joe
Just put a cd on and pedal along to that.
Start off with something mellow to warm-up (Kashmir), a bit more pacy for the main section (Achilles Last Stand / I Am The Resurrection), then mellow to come down so to speak.
you can t really be wanting to turbo to a metronome - surely that has got to be worse than hell on an unseasonably hot day! Get seme techno on the case 120 bpm and above will keep you going!
The metronome is just a non-partisan task master and is unrelenting in its method & demands of me, the cyclist.
You sort of get into a rhythm, and it can be just such hard graft.
Sometimes a spinning session at the gym can be similar, I seem to retract into another place, often getting into another "zone", one beyond the mere grunting, squeaking and popping of hard cycling. One where I only sometime manage to reach.
I'm looking for a similar, almost hypnotic effect again from the metronome so I can really concentrate on the BPM and the action, the click, click, click. It's so utterly unrelenting it's actually quite cathartic once you're into that "zone", but God, it hurts getting there!
I just can't afford £5.50 every spinning session!
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Hills.
Oddly, you can't ride a road bike mounted on a turbo trainer up hills.
Have you not seen the weather outside?
That's when the turbo comes into it's own.
You can make a fine make-shift damn out of it, or a sweat pair of earrings, or better still it'll help you float the family down Cockermouth High Street - just think, not a parking warder in sight!
thesufferfest.com rings a bell - they were "fun"