PowerTap / G Computer / LeMond Revolution Upgrade assistance

this man is on fire ! what is your max wattage and how long can you sustain it.
do you think cadence is important . my cadence i try and keep the same and adjust gears accordingly.
is the resistance for that lemond trainer a plastic friction belt ?
max hr are written as roughly 220 minus age.does yours fit in with this.mine doesnt.
do you know can you feel when you are on anaerobic threshold ?
if so on your trainer you are most prob 12/53 what are your watt's then ?
 
I've been thinking about these profiles some more, over the weekend, and it occurs to me that I might not need a Garmin GSC10 speed/cadence sensor for all four bikes? I am basing this on the fact that doesn't the Edge 810 take its speed information from GPS rather than the speed sensor in any case, and that the speed sensor data would only be used if you were in a tunnel?

Therefore:

Garmin Profile 1 - LeMond Revolution paired up to the Wattbox (am aware that the Garmin combined speed/cadence unit isn't compatible when using the Wattbox (as the Wattbox sends speed data already) and that I'll need a separate ANT+ cadence only sensor) to get all of the data displayed on the Garmin. Therefore, I'll need the Wattbox, the Edge 810 computer and something like a Bontrager cadence only ANT+ sensor? This will all be using road BIKE 1.

Garmin Profile 2 - PowerTap wheels paired up with the Garmin - this is where the combined speed/cadence Garmin sensor could be used fine, and just take power data from the PowerTaps themselves to get all of this data in the one place. I've just bought a PowerTap G3C rear hub, so these wheels will be ready soon. These wheels will be used outdoors on BIKE 1 (same as Profile 1), but had thought that I would need to set this up as Bike Profile 2 (as the power data source is different from Profile 1) - but that all that would be needed is the power data from the hubs and the same cadence sensor as used in Profile 1 (above) - no speed sensor would be needed in this set-up as the GPS would provide it?

Therefore, all I'd need to do is unhook BIKE 1 from the Revolution in Profile 1, stick in the PowerTap wheels to train outdoors and continue using the Bontrager cadence sensor for both profiles - is this correct?

Garmin Profile 3/4 - Normal wheelsets - with no power data being supplied at all (Profile 3 would still be BIKE 1 (just no power data this time - running normal wheels) and BIKE 2, a separate road bike (BIKE 2) I'm going to use far less often than my training road bike (BIKE 1), and just speed/cadence/HR data being collected to the Garmin sensor. I am assuming that this could be either of my steel roadies, and that all I will need is a handlebar mount and the same Bontrager cadence sensor as used in Profiles 1 & 2, for Profile 3 (still BIKE 1), and a second Bontrager cadence sensor on BIKE 2, with a mount for BIKE 2 so that I just pop the Gamin onto BIKE 2, and I'm away?

Garmin Profile 5/6 - 2x separate MTB's! Again, am assuming that I'll need a handlebar mount and a third and fourth Bontrager cadence sensor for each of these MTB's?!

Therefore, for all of these profiles:

1x Garmin computer
1x LeMond Revolution Trainer & Wattbox
4x Bontrager cadence sensors (1 per bike)
1x PowerTap wheels
6x Garmin computer profiles as set out above?

I ask, as I had initially thought that I'd need to get a Garmin GSC10 speed & Cadence sensor per bike? I not so sure I do anymore...

Many thanks for the input of any Garmin users out there
 
Turns out, now that I have all of the computer and power kit, and worked it all out for myself, that the suggestion above of how the profiles should operate with different bikes and power kit, was right.

Works perfectly...
 
great to hear,i read recently that cadence sensors might well be superseded by body movement grs.

best wishes kevin the gerbil[here's to a fit nation and reduced carbon emissions] :xmas-wink:
 
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