Tried it for the first time yesterday. Feels very different to my normal trainer, much more aggressive spindown. Been caught out a few times by the lack of freehub too!
Right knee not overly happy today, so I think I either need to quickly find someone that can tweak my cleat position or I’m going to have to stick to much lower power / higher cadence efforts. At least on this trip.
Yeah it does that. Traveling for work and just doing the free trial again so I can ride. Thought about bringing the bike but this works in a pinch.
Sorry I’m just seeing this and I’m sure you figured it out, but just in case others come looking for the answer, there is an old school big orange resistance knob on the downtube.
Except on some “hotel” bikes the diameter of the crank arm pedal holes is smaller than the industry norm.
It does have power but only accurate to 10%. Also, it doesn’t broadcast so it doesn’t matter I guess.
I am new to TR and been looking for a workaround as I do not have a power meter but do have access to a few Peloton bikes at work and a Peloton account linked to Strava which is linked to TR. Could you explain why the need for a head unit? Could I do the TR workouts from my cellphone and follow along in Peloton’s Just Ride? Any insight is much appreciated.
For those of you who have used a peloton while traveling with their stock pedals, did you clip in or just use toe cages? If you clipped in does the favero assioma cleat fit?
Will be giving this a try this week. I brought my shoes with SPDs. at first glance they look like SPDs, but 
It’s SPD two bolt and the bikes are crap. Loose rocking bars, loose rocking seat also no fans so winning
Have any folks actually traveled with their own pedals and swapped them on a hotel bike/peloton? Was the staff okay with swapping pedals?
I’ve never seen staff interested but I don’t go though the effort anymore. Usually just ride endurance when I travel as the lack of fan is awful. Usually record HR and assume Peloton watts are accurate enough for z2 work
It will depend on the individual hotel, honestly….most don’t care, some may push back.
May not hurt to travel with a small tube of penetrating oil….some of those pedals can be fused on there pretty tight. I’ll usually check them out the night before and if they are corroded, I’ll drip some penetrating oil on and let it sit overnight. Oh, and a pedal wrench for leverage.
I’d bring Allen keys too. I’ve found some bikes don’t take wrenches.
Yup. Do it all the time. Make sure you have the correct wrench with you when you go.
My assioma’s fasten via a hex wrench but you can’t access the back of the crank on a lot of spin bikes (body of bike gets in the way). If this is the case and you own assioma’s you’ll need to find a different bike. It works on pelotons and some of the simple spin bikes.