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How to record spinning

1822148
over 3 years ago

How do I record spinning on the fenix 6?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    You mean a spin bike? Use Indoor Bike profile. Heart rate is the minimum you can expect. If you want any other useful metrics I recommend fitting power meter pedals. Trying to get meaningful data on speed and distance from a spin bike is futile. Power {and heart rate) is the only sensible metric of value from a spin bike. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to eezytiger

    Yeah I meant spin bike. Thanks for your answer I'll give it a try

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 1822148

    I've done it with my Assioma Duo pedals on a spin bike so that I could continue to Zwift while I was between Neos. It totally works. 

    Speed and distance are worthless because, even if you could use a speed sensor to measure them, the resistance is variable and effort vs flywheel speed is a complete unknown and a nonsensical way of measuring the workout. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I use the Indoor Bike profile, and have the Wahoo Cadence and Wahoo Speed sensor (mainly for distance) on my bike. To get accurate speed/distance you just need to measure the circumference of the wheel and manually enter it in the calibration of the speed sensor. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to ekernodle

    A spin bike doesn't have a "wheel". It has a flywheel. These are spin bikes....

    You can't just measure the circumference of a flywheel and say that its speed at the rim corresponds to road speed in the real world. It could be just about anything, depending on gearing. Plus, flywheel speed corresponds directly with cadence, not effort.

    If you have extremely light resistance you can spin the flywheel quite fast for small effort. In the real world you cannot go fast for small effort unless rolling downhill. If you turn up the resistance and grind away the flywheel speed may slow down. You're doing massive work, but not going "fast". This would be like climbing in real life, but the spin bike doesn't measure gradient or accent/descent and cannot send these things to the watch, so everything to do with "speed" is rooted in arbitrary numbers, not real world speed. Same goes for distance. Nothing is calibrated. Speed and effort are not related when resistance is unknown. 

    That's why it only makes sense to measure power (i.e. effort) (and heart rate).

    Now, if you have an actual (road) bike on rollers or a resistance trainer and the resistance curve matches real world physics of drag then you could measure the road wheel speed/distance. This does not apply to a spin bike. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to eezytiger

    Correct, the spin bike has a flywheel and not a wheel. I have a Sunny spin bike which I use with the Peloton app. The cadence sensor is the only sensor I pay attention to when using the bike. The primary reason I added the speed sensor was to have some measure (however arbitrary it is) of "mileage" or usage on the bike. I don't use the speed/distance for any training metrics. And the came as a set, so...why not? :)