AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

I crashed out my iBike Pro Gen 3 over the summer (along with the bike it was mounted to). :-( I'm looking for more info on how the PowerPod works. I notice that the Newton docs are all on-line but I'm not seeing those for the PowerPod. Am I missing something? Can someone point me to a link, if I've ...

Today I saw an event with similar symptoms to what I originally posted. In this case, the only ride I had on my iBike was a long ride from last Friday afternoon. When I turned on my iBike to download the rides to my Window's software, the iBike reported a bad battery (voltage was later shown at 2.67...

Reviving a 12-month-old thread isn't a horrible idea. So, steveoc, don't worry about it. From my perspective, I run a Win2k VM on my Ubuntu 10.04 box. I've switched from VirtualBox to VMware since my last posting. VMware seems more stable with the USB drivers. I can pretty strongly recommend Golden ...

This is strange. Before emailing and calling people, I decided to try downloading the data one more time. Oddly, this time everything seems visible. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but for anyone who sees something like this in the future, it would appear that all hope is not lost. As an aside, ...

As a further piece of diagnostics, the corrupted ride inside the iBike looks (from a Wind, HR and elevation perspective -- but not from a power perspective) like the last ride that I had gotten off my iBike. I downloaded data on 6/30 then cleared the iBike. The 36 mile ride on 6/30 (that's already o...

This morning I'm trying to download the files off my iBike for five rides. While my iBike says "Log 76% Full", I get one ride in the list to download in iBike for Windows -- its shown as "iBike_07_10_2010_0151_-187978378019288845000000000000000000_Miles.csv". This is a bit devest...

John, if the supply rails for the iBike see 3.8 volts, is the a risk that anything is going to see a voltage above it's maximum operating voltage? If I had access to the schematic and BOM :-), it wouldn't be too difficult a question to resolve. Still, I'm still bleeding down the supply of 50 batteri...

Saved from the biggest dumb move ever....ever... Two summers ago after a group ride, I got in my minivan to go home. I had forgotten to actually load my bike into the van and was about to back up (running it over). Fortunately, a friend yelled at me to stop -- before any damage was done. Felt silly....

From two posts ago, I got GoldenCheetah working. This seems like a really cool tool for the non-Windows-centric computer users among us. It beats the python script I wrote to decode iBike csvs to generate static web pages about my rides. All that said, it's January in Wisconsin. I WANT OUTDOOR RIDIN...

Doofus, since I just replied to a different post I feel compelled to post a somewhat off topic response. I'm jealous. I wish we had a track/velodrome/good-piece-of-oval-pavement where mean TTs could take place. We travel chunks of rural pavement measuring one mile on each vertex -- four miles in cir...

Doofus (your login makes me smile), are you running version 4.02 firmware? If memory serves me, there is a known bug in 4.02 that can cause the heart rate data to drop in unexpected ways. There is a quasi-formal 4.03 release posted to the forum (somewhere) that may help you. Short of that, the other...

GoldenCheetah? This one's new to me leaving me with the what-rock-have-I-been-hiding-under feeling. I'm grabbing a copy out of git to do a build locally. This looks promising (for the Linux nerds among us). The riding in the basement and writing code phase of the year is now upon us.

Yeah, I kept half an ear pointed toward Vegas last week expecting to hear something. Whatever it ends up being, I hope John offers a reasonable upgrade path for those of us who have Gen IIIs. March corresponds to the show in Taiwan. Maybe John will make the trip announce it there.

I don't use any of those packages. The ONLY two Windows apps I use in my personal life are Turbo Tax and iBike. Other than that, I stick with Linux. I wrote a Python app that I wrote that parses the data and generates similar information (as web pages with graphs). I added a module based upon the al...

In Gen III firmware 3.08, we now have access to NP, IF and TSS on our iPro or iAero. If we use TrainingPeaks, we can access it on your PC (because Training Peaks independently calculates this information). I don't use TrainingPeaks. Is it possible to see my NP, IF and TSS values within the iBike sof...

@jdduncan, when I first got my iBike, I did a virtual serial port dump of the data coming across the USB link. In looking at that, yeah, you could probably reverse engineer the protocol. It would be a good challenge, but it would be a pretty big effort. In the grand scheme of things the path of leas...

@coachboyd: I'm confused about your comment of not having a wind scaling factor greater than 1.0. While it isn't probably appropriate for this tread, in a different thread John had indicated that a wind scaling factor of 2.0 was within reason. Help me understand. The reason I ask is that with my Gen...

I've noticed this problem as well. My iBike (firmware version 3.05) when I'm pedaling up to speed (in trainer mode),will flip (not always just once in a while) from the lowest power bar graph range (100 W full scale range?) and immediately jump to the 2000 W or 4000 W range. There is will sit. I've ...

I had a "bad calc" 4-mile ride. I did a second one it was fine. For the first one, my iBike was in trainer mode. :-( When I got home, I was able to extract the data of the "bad calc" ride. It seemed fine within iBike 3. I'm treating my first iPro cal rides as throwaway once we ge...

I'm not entirely sure that I buy the ESD explanation. I've seen a lot of weird heart rate data at the beginning of rides. However, as soon as I build up a sweat and get my chest strap and base layer damp, the data tends to straighten out. I do find that wearing a base layer contributes to issues. Ev...

I saw the same thing on my Gen III iPro. My altitude is about 760 ft. When I initially started my ride, it was at 250 feet and, within the first 30 seconds, reestablished itself to 740. The outside temp 37 F. Inside it was 67 F. I thought I left the iPro outside long enough. I guess not. Just doing ...

Heads up. I just got my Gen III iPro. It feels like the iPro handles serial communications just a little bit differently than the iBike Gen I did. This seems to have broken my VirtualBox setup. Perhaps it could have been fixed. But, the path of least resistance was to use a VMware VM. So as to not c...

I have a Fluid^2 that I bought in late 2006/early 2007. I would agree with etuaz's characterization of the power curves. They all seem to overstate my power on the traininer. I'm using the 1up one myself. Honestly, I'm sticking with it. I have enough data using that power curve that I'm hesitant to ...

I've made a couple posts about trying to find good curves for Cycleops Fluid 2 trainers. After seeing the responses and looking at the problem from a higher level, I think the best way to look at power on a trainer (at least on a Fluid 2) is as a comparison to other trainer workouts (on the same tra...

Before last night's ride, I noticed that my bike was NOT in trainer mode (which contradicts what I had said earlier). So, to no surprise, during last night's ride, I was not able to reproduce the trainer ride auto analyze issue that I saw on my 11/30. I was, however, able to reproduce the "foun...

Travis, I just emailed you the suspect ride file and the two profiles I use. As always, thank you and Velocomp for their continued support!

I upgraded to iBike 3 (version 3.0.2). Now, when I download a trainer ride, the software attempts to apply a profile to the ride an auto-analyze it. What started out as a 200 W workout all of a sudden becomes a 36 W workout (which makes sense -- in the basement the iBike sees virtually no wind). In ...

If I'm not mistaken, the curves Russ refers to are in the list of options in the iBike software. To the defense of iBike, trainer cal is always going to be tricky. I have to wonder if even small changes in tolerances within the manufacture of trainers, air temp, tire pressure, wheel/roller contact f...

@kb1dqh: Last weekend I was out on a ride in sub-freezing weather here in northeast Wisconsin. My battery was low when I started the ride and gave out a couple miles before I got home. I paid attention to where I was when it failed. I was able to download everything before the failure. Did you try d...

@Nreimche: What version of IBike2 for windows are you running? There was a bug in an earlier version that wouldn't allow users to open iBike files that were read only. That bug has since been fixed. See this thread for details on the bug you might be experiencing: http://www.ibikeforum.com/viewtopic...