I’ve played with cadence so much it doesn’t make a material difference on my bike. Overall I like the SB20, it’s so quiet and smooth. But man I hate the fact it takes me 15 seconds on average to get on power.
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@Donoman I have the Stages app open at the same time and it produces an audible click when changing gears - I find it loud enough to hear anyway
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I’m enjoying the SB20 in resistance mode, but the shifting is quite slow especially for short sprint workouts.
And the thing is super laggy for Zwift racing. Forget it.
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I have the SB20. It does lag a bit more than my TACX neo. However, a few notes that may help:
- the trainer ramps down a bit more slowly too from a results stand point it means you’re still doing the work. From an ocd perspective it will feel annoying.
- many people/coaches recommend resistance mode for interval of 30 seconds or less regardless of the trainer. These intervals work energy systems/skills that are better imitated by jumping on the power.
- there has been discussion that many trainers internally smooth the power data and the SB20 does not which makes it look like the power is more unstable.
There is a fairly active Facebook group dedicated to the SB20.
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I recently switched from a Tacx Neo 2 trainer to a SB20 and I noticed the really slow response time tonight when I was doing 30/30 VO2 max intervals in ERG mode.
Was taking nearly 15 seconds before it reached target wattage.
The Neo 2 took a couple of seconds.
On intervals 60sec or shorter I don’t think you can use ERG with the SB20. On longer intervals it seems ok because you have more time to hit target power. So I just take it out of ERG when doing short snappy intervals.
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