Wattbike Take Centre Stage with British Triathlon Federation and Adidas
Snow and rain accompanied visitors to this year’s TCR show held at the famous Gold-Cup venue, Sandown Park. At the show Wattbike teamed up with British Triathlon Federation and Adidas to create a competition stand, to let visitors find out and try the best equipment in the show.
Hundreds of visitors came to the Wattbike stand to see why it is the first indoor bike that British Cycling has endorsed. There were lots of positive comments about the riding experience, the accuracy of the bike and how cyclists and triathletes will use it for analysis, training and competition.
The revolutionary polar-view analysis was very popular, with riders looking at their own cycling efficiency in real-time and seeing the improvements in efficiency with each small adjustment to their cycling technique.
Attendees also tasted the competitive side of Wattbike as friends and family raced head-to-head live on the stand. Over the course of the weekend hundreds tried the Wattbike and raced a flying 200m lap and maximum power test. The second-to-none accuracy of the Wattbike allows results to be compared directly between bikes and users. Visitors’ results are entered onto the free Wattbike Ranking site where they can compare their scores against everyone else in the country.
The fastest flying 200m of the weekend went to top triathlete Ain-Alar Juhanson from Estonia. Despite being unhappy with his performance, the Estonian did the 200m in 10.12 seconds hitting a top wattage of 1538W. Not too shabby from where we were standing!
