Hello everyone, New to TR and smart trainer so if the answer if obvious I apologise now. Background: I paired my trainer to TR and my PM to a head-unit to compare to two numbers, just to check for any discrepancies. Reason for this is that only one bike has a PM (TT) and the other doesn’t (road).…

Can you tell us what trainer you are using and what PM you are using?

Quarq D-Zero. 16 months old. Calibrated 2 months ago. Tacx Flux. Brand spanking new.

This is pretty common–I always expect my power meter to read slightly higher than my trainer (Kickr Snap). While I would recommend trying to always use the bike with the power meter, you could just do two Ramp Tests—one with the PM, one with the trainer power. Then when you do workouts on your bike…

Now I feel like an idiot. That is a very obvious thing to do. Thank you.

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jmjf October 1, 2018, 1:21am 6

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