| Re: SPIN CLASS KICKED redux
Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
> networked to displays so you can see your output and
> everyone else's on the front wall.
>
> But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
> away the people who need it most. The closest it should
> get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
> decide who's winning or losing.
Bah!!!
"Conan! What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
and to hear the lamentation of their women!"
>
> If the display was just on the bike, and accurate, it'd
> go a long way to calibrating your resistance.
True, I suppose the varying resistances would make it hard anyway
to have any kind of meaningful comparison.
Though, if you added some cranks with a powertap...
--
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel;
Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest
science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all
on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
-- Harlan Ellison
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