The straw that broke the camel's back:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought i might do a \u2018quick\u2019 turbo session this evening. The reason being that the weather is pretty terrible and i hadn\u2019t got the time to head down to the lake for the first race of the season. By the time i\u2019d sorted out the rear turbo wheel by putting a tyre on and then pinching an inner tube, then changing the tyre and putting a new tube in, switching the cassette and setting up the bike and then setting up the computer with \u2018The Flying Scotsman\u2019 on the iplayer with headphones and subtitles (because of fearsome noise) to alleviate the dreadful and crushing ennui of it all and then got changed and put some water within reach and found my sweaty turbo towel that hasn\u2019t been washed since the last time i dared to ride the bastard (turbo, not turbo towel) and wrestled with the quick release mechanism and then adjusted the height with a series of books under the front wheel by getting on and off about four times then adjusting the saddle height then going back and adjusting the resistance about 6 times with the manual turny thing, i\u2019d wasted about 55 minutes. This was about as long as i intended to spend on the\u00a0bastard piece of shit.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I managed about\u00a011 minutes at about 70% of max\u00a0<\/strong>before two things happened. The iplayer began to freeze and unfreeze, robbing me of the only thing that helped me think that i wasn\u2019t actually on the turbo, and then without warning the back wheel leapt out of the dropout clasps and i had to do an emergency unclip and braking manouevre\u00a0ON THE GODDAMNED TURBO<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0just to stay alive. i suddenly lurched towards the computer where Graeme Obree was riding off the front of some sort of Tour of the Scottish Prettylands in the early part of the film and very nearly ended up joining the crazed circular-breathing scotsman on the silver screen.<\/p>\n

If you're made of far stronger stuff than I am, and I'm thinking Ivan Drago in Rocky 4 when he kills Apollo Creed to death – that sort of stronger stuff – and think you can handle the savage bestiality of the CYCLOPS WIND TURBO then please, please, please buy this\u00a0REPULSIVE ITEM.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Awesome. \u00a0Just plain awesome. \u00a0Basically, this sums up how I feel about my trainer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy on ebay UK not only has a hell of a sense of humor, but he has a serious distaste for his CycleOps Wind Trainer: I’m selling this bastard thing because i HATE it. \u00a0 I\u2019m sure there are people out there who like or even have a perverse love affair with their turbo trainer. It might even attract some sort of love\/hate duality. I know for a fact that some people, many of them ostensibly sane with some hideously rapid times to their name, view the turbo as\u00a0the\u00a0essential piece of training equipment.\u00a0Personally, i\u2019d rather rip my face off and dive into a bath of saline solution than use this horrible piece of apparatus. It\u2019s utterly soul-destroying and mind-numbing, which is a pretty vicious combination. The straw that broke the camel’s back: I thought i might do a \u2018quick\u2019 turbo session this evening. The reason being that the weather is pretty terrible and i hadn\u2019t got the time to head down to the lake for the first race of the season. By the time i\u2019d sorted out the rear turbo wheel by putting a tyre on and then pinching an inner tube, then changing the tyre and putting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,168],"yst_prominent_words":[2875,2343,2870,1979,2873,288,2867,1083,2872,2871,2869,2874,934,2866,2868],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10973,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}