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Old 01-06-23, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomm Willians
I did a small number of classes during a hot spell as I couldn’t ride. I was amazed at how poorly I performed knowing I’m a fairly strong rider. I could not complete any of their classes without slowing down at times.
I have ridden with a number of the people in these classes and know full well that on real bikes they wouldn’t keep up with me for an hour but on spin bikes I was useless. Go figure?
On a spin bike how do you know how your riding compares to someone else? All you have is that resistance knob that you cannot typically see on other bikes (plus cadence, of course). How do you make that judgement?

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