So my buddy whom rides a a few times a month at most just did his first ftp test on his wife’s new peloton and texted me, did 334 for 20 min for and ftp of around 4.2 w/kg. I’ve had to train hard for years just to flirt with 300 watts/ 4 w/kg. Life is not fair.

Wow for the price of that thing it doesn’t even have a power meter ? I can’t usually drop him so I know he’s somewhat fit but idea of 334 watts no training made me just a little jealous.

Yea the first generation Pelotons are kind of a crapshoot for power, I always see people on my Strava feed putting up way more optimistic numbers than their IRL performance would indicate is possible

If you look at the DC comparison the unit he has seems to be off by up to 7%. That would place your mate at 3.8 wpkg. Some sources on the internet state even bigger discrepancies. So it’s save to assume that your wpkg outperforms your mate. So all the hard work was worth it. :wink:

I bet your couch is good at long duration easy efforts though :grinning:

My Tacx Vortex also used to make me think that my FTP was 50 watts greater than it actually was. Hard efforts would spike 70 watts greater! Maybe I’ll use it again if I ever race Zwift. :slight_smile:

Usually the best thing for overall comparison of performance on the road is speed :slight_smile:

Well we’re both doing same race in a few weeks so we will see, but now I know to just sit on his wheel at least.

Any chance you can do an FTP test on his Peloton?

Yeah, but what about ON the couch FTP? Mine’s gotta be up around 6-700 w/ full glute activation. :peach::grin:

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anon13702412 February 27, 2021, 7:49pm 2

Key is the device. The peloton bikes are know to overstate power by a lot. So a piece of mind, you are likely well well ahead of your mate.

https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/02/5-random-things-i-did-this-weekend-102.html/amp

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