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Exercise Bike Hacking


On the exercise bike I've progressed from levels 4 to 7, all at 24 minute duration and final distance is always precisely 13.88km. So what's to stop me fitting a standard cycle computer to measure speed and distance traveled? Another project for the list.

UPDATE: better plan, use a cordless optical mouse to detect the crank going round and do the logging on a pc. Less wiring. I was planning something like this for the rowing machine but never got around to it as the setup was more awkward.

Since the profile of the hill program is predefined, data logging program can munge together speed with 'hill steepness factor' to give a measurement of effort expended.


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