Well, I'm all out of banter on this one....
But back to the original question about making turbos more bearable - maybe we need to be a bit more innovative? Was thinking (while out on the bike this morning, proper cycling that is
) that I've often amused myself blowing beads of sweat off the end of my nose across the garage. Now this could be developed with targets - maybe cups arranged on the floor? We could award points for each cup - maybe more points for those further away? What do you reckon?
Anyway, this is true: some of you know Pete Lumb, lifelong Clifton member - the older guy you seam to pass *every* time you go out on the east side of York. He told me he had a quiet year on the bike last year and *only* did 12,000 miles
- I think he's 77. He’s ranked about 23rd in the 300k club with 480 odd thousand recorded lifetime miles despite not recording any mileage between ’54 and ’85. The last day he failed to get out on his bike was in July 2000 due to his granddaughter’s graduation and before that he missed a day in ’96 when he was knocked out by a pheasant on Garrowby Hill…….. Anyway, legend has it that he once connected his rollers to a generator and used it to power an immersion heater in his hot water tank. He even calculated the expected temperature rise for a 60minute training ride! We could try to do that calculation while riding the turbo - that'd pass the time eh?