AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

I do not go off road much but here are my thoughts. 1. cal ride and CD's on smooth pave to establish the baseline Cda and Crr. 2. options: A. CD's on chosen rough road, etc and force Cda back to above value. Actually I have only been able to 'try' various CRR's until the Cda comes to match baseline...

You only need to do one cal ride per bike to get your wind scaling factor. Then do a set of coast downs to get your CdA and Crr. Cal rides don't determine Crr - they just work out your wind scaling factor and riding tilt. So no need to do one on a trail. Ahhh. That is really helpful actually. Also ...

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So, what about doing a cal ride on the road, as well as coast downs under one profile (named ProFlex Road of course) to get an accurate Cda. Then doing another cal ride on a trail under "ProFlex Trail", and simply putting the Cda and wind scaling from "ProFlex Road" into "Pr...

KenS wrote:Another factor which I haven't included is the dynohub which at higher speeds would offer more resistance.

Haha, yeah. was putting some of the parts that came in the mail today on my commuter build and realized that I built myself a dynamo hubed front wheel. Oh boy.

OK guys, so what can I take away from this as a solid method for setting up CX and touring bikes in the Newton? Cal rides on the surfaces you ride on? Coast downs seem near impossible on anything other than smooth paved road. So maybe instead initial cal rides and coast downs on pavement to get the ...

So what did you figure out about the Panniers and wind scaling?

Ah, perfect. Thank you! Looks like an awesome trip. Yeah, that would be a perfect marketing stunt. Put a DFPM and an Newton on a DH or even better an Enduro rider's bike for a season and see what's what at the end. :) MAN, if iBike could claim their PM was Enduro?!!! Dude, they'd sell out in 2 secon...

I don't know. I still want to see how well it stands up to Danny Hart using it for a season. ;) Great and helpful story, btw. How rough have the roads you were on been. I am more interested in constant small vibrations. My gen III has held up fine, and I expect no less from the Newton, but you alway...

Hmmm. Seems like I am pulling out my wallet a lot for the Newton. I have Garmin Vector on my race bike and Garmin hasn't charged me for any enhancements. $50 for GPS (hasn't yet worked for me - what a waste! The paradox is I use Garmin data), $100 for pedal stroke balance, $50 for user selected dat...

I ask this with great trepidation, and with the realization that you guys have better things to do. But, I will be putting my new Newton on my MTB (which I am sure you know by now) and my CX bike that I hope to race (when I finish building it). But I will also be doing training rides with my shop's ...

Again, here I go with another old thread, but I ran into a similar thing with the sample file in Isaac I played with today. For grins and chuckles try MapMyRide. I think it is that very thing. When you stop Isaac knows (or only looks at ride time), but Strava includes actual time. In MMR it will bre...

blp wrote:When I went to Isaac (V3.02)/Device/Check for firmware update, V4.14 was the latest.

How do I update to V5?

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You gotta pay for it. $50. http://store.ibikesports.com/ibike-newt ... pgrade-key

Not sure if you saw my Windows phone post ronpei, but One drive on our windows phones make things nice, and almost all of the windows phone cycling apps will let you upload the file straight to one drive. Then you just sync the one drive on your computer and load it into Issac. The issue I have bee...

Hey guys, this is just something I noticed and thought I should bring up. In the sample file on Isaac I clicked the little Facebook icon (very nice btw) the issue is none of the links provided go anywhere. I just get pges don't exist errors. The instructions under the "more" button were ve...

Sorry, I am sure many of you probably already know this, but I also uploaded the .csv file into Strava for grins and chuckles. The cadence ave. was the same but all of the other averages, (power, cadence, HR) were lower in Strava. Interesting, and kind of funny in a snarky kind of way. Also it repor...

Again, just playing around with Isaac some more and thought I would share. I exported a .csv, .tcx, and .gxp versions of the sample file in Isaac to see how MMR would react. Well, actually I exported them to a file I created in OneDrive, and then uploaded then oped MMR and uploaded them from that fi...

Works perfectly with WiFi on my Android. that sounds good, but I think the phone I have available is a windows platform, so I assume that is not applicable yet. Is there any thoughts towards a windows app as well as the apple and android? Sorry to say, there aren't enough Windows phones out there t...

It says this in the manual: "HOW DO I HARD RESET THE NEWTON? Your Newton contains a microprocessor. It is possible, though extremely unlikely, that your Newton might “freeze”. Symptoms of a freeze include: the buttons do not function properly, the screens are frozen, or you can’t download rides...

Cool! Thank you for letting us know.

Since I put in the order for my new Newton I have downloaded Issac and started reading he instructions. It says this in bold letters: "APS requires the use of an ANT+ combined speed/cadence sensor on each of your bikes." I'd just like a clarification. Do you mean APS will only work on the ...

DC Rainmaker's comments make more sense after reading this. But I have always been under the impression that we can get Cda analysis even without a DFPM, if we bought the whole enchilada. As far as the screen comments, it seems everyone is comparing the iBike to Garmin's screen, not anyone else's he...

Is there an advantage in accuracy by letting Issac merge the GPS data and then sending it to Strava? Seems like cell phone GPS tracks, while getting better all the time, aren't the most accurate.

Oh, so this is why the Powerstroke option says it comes with 4X the memory. It kinda needs it. I mean, not for folks like me, but people who do centuries and such. Correct?

Alright, I really hope some of the stuff you "are working on right now", is firmware and not hardware related (special mounts excluded) because I just pulled the trigger on a new Newton Powerstroke 5. I saw the coupon code on Facebook. Maybe I could have leveraged things to help make my sh...

No, we mtb'ers are out here, but, technical challenges acknowledged, Velocomp simply doesn't have an interest in developing a product for the mountain biking market, I'm afraid. Really? We hadn't heard that. Maybe we should stop working on some of the stuff we are doing right now. Don't make my mtb...

And that is fair enough. It's just a change I find odd. When I asked if the iSport could hold up to MTBing it was an emphatic yes. Now, its just the silent treatment. Also, I'm out there beating the iBike drum in my shop and MTB club. And as we can see as evidenced on DCRainmaker it is an up hill ba...

Glad I'm not the only one who gets crickets when they use those three nasty letters. Oh well. My Gen III iSport has held up fine. I am hoping the Newton does the same.

I have narrowed it down to three apps. CycloMeter I think has the most bells and whistles like it will show you your elevation profile post ride, it's ready to sync with Bluetooth sensors, and will upload to Strava, MMF, OneDrive, and one other. But you have to pay $3 each for that, so I didn't chec...

This got me thinking and I started looking for other cycling apps as MMR on Windows Phone is a let down. So far I have found two that will upload straight to One Drive. I will test them out and give you other Windows Phone users my impressions. But if there are those ahead of me, please post your fa...