Wattbike 1000 meter challenge - Mates vs Mates

 I'd rather get a trainier thingy that you put your road bike on. Cuz then you have a road bike too.

 I'll bring it to Cannock to a racers guild soon!

 I find it amusing that the downhillers all pretty much sit on top.

 I think a BMX racer would have the best time over 1000

 WTF? Why was my comment deleted? It was:
Whats the idea of buying a wattbike, which costs 2k £?
Whats better in this bike than other training bikes?

 comments are deleted by MODS if they feel the content was inappropriate etc - or your comment didnt load up properly. I didnt buy the bike it was given to me for training by wattbike.

 I agree tom tom, It's a great training tool for BMX and DH racers.

 a track racer that trains specifically for doing kilos would kick any bmx racers ass

 that. track racers or roadie sprinters.

 a track racer, road sprinter and mtb power house is what I am. I would love a go at this challenge haha

 I was just about to post this comment when I saw yours! Chris Hoy is crazy fast!

 gregory bauge

 A rower (a good one)?

 Oh yeah, because they could totally do it upside down and pedal with their arms. Duh!

 Uhh, dude, in rowing the legs are as important as arms..

 If you can row 2000m in under 7 minutes (or even 1000m in 3 and a half minutes) and your legs aren't burning, please correct me... (Directed at Kornowski)

 It's a good point, I didn't really take it into much consideration. My bad.

 I've got the 2000m row at 6.35, the pain varies between forearms and thighs- and i'd love to give that watt bike ago

 Rowers USe their arms one of the least things>I row ... road time trialers and racers would win

 I row! and i did a sub 7 minute 2km with my legs not burning... and, unless your rubbish, you use your arms much less than legs but still want to pound them in to set the boat nicely on the slide. nice time jumpingj btw...

 cheers nick, its not come easy like- proper winter training. Gone from 6.47 in December to 6.35 in March... I row a fairbit- and spinbike (combined with a fair amount of interval stuff).. Rowing is such a good (different) exercise for DH training- I got the idea from seeing articles about the top MX guys and seeing their custom Concept2 indoor rowers-Pimp setups with full mx handlebars to pull on

 yer i train daily aswell.. won my division of schools head of the river last weekend... 17 minutes of hell! im stuck on a 6:58.1 PB. should improve with summer sprint training though.

 Jumpingj, that is a very good time (the people who row a 2k in like 6 minutes [or even less] are, in my opinion, NUTZ!, they have a great fitness level though!) and nick-hawkins 6:58.1 isn't exactly a bad time anyway, my personal best is only ever so slightly better anyways. But i think the racers in the velodrome (is it 'track' racers?) would be fastest, personally.

 chilli-cheese.. where do you row? you don't do any wales national stuff do u? if so do u no sam lapage or fiennes davey?

 Im also pretty sure that rowing uses very similar muscles i cant remember but there is very successful track rider who moved from rowing to track.

also have a friend whos a track rider whos time for 1k is 56 seconds im not sure how good that is compared to some people but yeah

owe what clubs do you row for ?

 Shrewsbury- RSSBC..

Does anyone else have back problems from the combination of the two?

 I row for Penarth, South Wales (on the sea! yeah! we're not the biggest or the greatest, but...) And know i don't row for wales as of yet, but the welsh trials are coming up, and my coach says i can get in so, i may do soon... I can't say i do know those two either, but i may have seen them, but as i don't know them wouldn't have took any notice. And back problems? From rowing and biking? I did feel some pain before but i concentrated on my posture (for those long ergo's especially) and did some pilates every once and a while, and yeah, my back is fine now.

 Awww cool i should be going to welsh trails but at the moument im feeling very negtive towards rowing ;P so thats not great haha i row for monmouth comp haha yes i know

 Any of you fellas heard of the (rowing) Dallas test... I've had a couple of go's at it, its a bit of a recovery/power test- I believe its quite popular with some of the rugby clubs?

Also do any of you know of any other good/fun little tests for the rowers? Maybe stuff that might be beneficial for DH training?

 fun doesn't tend to come into our training very much.. when our coach says 'today we're going to have some fun' it means a 4 mile race against the first 8 so isn't much fun at all..
Yer apparently wales is a bit of a cruise to get into but then again the 3 people I know who are doing it are pretty insane..
Were any of you guys at schools head or chester North head of the River? Will any of you be at Nat schools?
Im off on a rowing tour to america for 2 weeks in a weeks time.. doing some racing around Boston and moving up the east coast... should be good fun.
Ive never heard of the Dallas test.. we do a thing called the Glucker named after an american coach.. 20 strokes race pace 10 strokes paddle and rotates like that for 20 minutes.. seriously painfull after a while.
Oli345 is that the monmouth thats quite competetive or a different one?

 Yeah we are but our senior squad has got abit small recentent years got alot of j15s which look promising. getting the mix with alevels and rowing this year will be the stuggle we should be raceing at wallingford and marlow kinda the warm ups before henely really

 yer ill be at marlow and wallingford and marlow aswell.. last year i did 5 races in the one day at marlow! i could only see in black and white afterwards lol... are you racing in the temple challenge at henley or PE?

 haha im sure thats not healthy ermm i think where raceing in the Fawley challenge cup

 o ok didn't know about that one.. who enters that?

 Coxless quads

 im pretty out of shape. Over 10 mile rides on the computrainer I tend to average about 225-250 watts. I don't often pay attention to watts on sprints. I get spanked though all my co workers average 300+ on the 10ers

 ill second that , thats wen u need me

 You fancy a shot next Saturday ian?

 i knew you would do - no problem - maybe your time will improve with better clothing, a warm up, some notice you would do this challenge ... etc etc