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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Trainers, Power Meters and More with DC Rainmaker – Ask a Cycling Coach 219

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 219 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast is live from Eurobike! DC Rainmaker joins the team to discuss trainers, aero sensors, and all the latest training tech. Tune in and get faster on your favorite podcast app!

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

  • DC Rainmaker is here to talk tech!
  • Aerodynamic testing with aero sensors
  • How to test the accuracy of your power meter
  • Why are there not more pedal-based power meters?
  • Improvements in power meters for MTB
  • Ray's top trainer choices
  • How to choose the best power meter for you
  • Are indoor bikes, or trainers, the future?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.4

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our not head coach our CEO Nate Pearson

0:09.2

Hello, and a very special guest Ray maker from DC Ray maker calm has gone. It's gone good. It's nice

0:14.8

We are not in America right now. We're in Eurobike and we are in your RV

0:19.1

We are outside of the the the whole show and so if you hear kind of noise going on

0:25.0

It's raining really hard on our RV roof

0:27.4

We're in Germany by the way Ray have you found any vegetables other than potatoes here?

0:33.4

No, there's nothing other than brown vegetables brown vegetables. I mean right brown

0:39.9

It's amazing the endurance diet is not really utilized here. I went to grocery store. They didn't have spinach or kale

0:46.6

No, I found some raspberries and blueberries and that's all been living on as raspberry blueberries and brown things

0:51.8

Yeah, good apples here though. Yeah, yeah, yeah amazingly good tech

0:55.9

So we are gonna so this is not going to be a normal episode

0:59.3

We get tons of questions all the time about like the tech that like is coming out or the tech that we use and recommend that sort of stuff

1:06.4

I mean, you can kind of speak on the stuff that we use but there are plenty of things that we don't use like directly

1:10.9

You know, so you're the authority on all these things and if people don't know first of all DC Ray maker calm

1:16.0

Honestly, if you ever want any device that probably you'd use with trainer road

1:19.4

There's an amazing review on it probably

1:21.4

And I think your manuals are better than other manuals

1:25.2

Yeah, it's basically just a manual. It's all comes down to unknown

1:28.1

I won't talk about a company but I had a question for them and they said oh you go to DC

1:32.3

Remakers article to figure out how to do that. They didn't have a way to do it

1:35.2

They didn't have it pointed to you. They pointed to you. Yeah, yeah

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