joe
Reged: 25/08/2008
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Does anyone have a view on how a 45 minute spinning class compares to a 30 mile 18-20mph ride on moderately flat roads.
I am limited for time and doing 2-3 classes a week. Lost weight! Joe
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
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Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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Never been to spinning class but they look torture and I am sure they work but getting out for 30 miles is the best way to go, even on fairly flat roads you have wind and slight gradients to vary the work load plus you will work your core better on the bike. I would suggest do both, road miles as often as you can, spin class when dark, cold and wet...oh that's year round this year. 30 miles at 20 mph is really good going, so I would say that has to be much harder than 45 minutes spin, cooler on you as well, indoor stuff cooks me!
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
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I did a few spinning classes a couple of years ago, when I was monster fit. The final one - 90 minutes - nearly killed me. Heart rate got over 200, and the sweat was flowing in a steady stream - not drips - off my chin for the final third. It was hell. Suffice to say there are only a couple of hills I've suffered that hard on, and certainly not for that length of time. For endurance it's brilliant, but it bears no resemblance to the real thing and it's essentially a kind of cycle masturbation, and not just cos spinning classes are often full of w**kers. The main thing is that if you're doing a 30 mile circuit at 20mph, you don't usually have some lycra-clad Nazi screaming 'Good Job!', 'Go for it!' and 'Make this count!' at you to a soundtrack of dreadful hardcoreacideurotrance anthems.
Anyhoo, great for general fitness and weight loss; rubbish for bike handling, self motivation and your basic quality of life.
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kieran
Reged: 11/07/2007
Posts: 660
Loc: currently in Atlanta.
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it's essentially a kind of cycle masturbation, and not just cos spinning classes are often full of w**kers
oh snap!  
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peanut
Reged: 15/06/2006
Posts: 178
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I did a few spinning classes a couple of years ago, when I was monster fit. The final one - 90 minutes - nearly killed me.
90 minutes ? christus! I'm dead after 40 
Spinning is great for weight loss and keeping your cardio vascular fitness up when you can't go out for a hack regularly .ie too wet/dark /late etc
Spinning or programmed cycling (Technogym) gives you more disciple in terms of intensity of effort as its easy to freewheel out on the bike. Try freewheeling on a spinning bike 
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crymble
Reged: 01/10/2007
Posts: 100
Loc: Belfast
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Only do it in the winter, and remember to take a towel and bucket with you to catch the sweat. It's nothing like actually riding outside but it is more entertaining that sitting on rollers.
K
P.S. Don't take a heart monitor with you, it scares you sh__less when you see your heartrate going over 200.....
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Troy
Reged: 09/11/2006
Posts: 258
Loc: S Lakes
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I love my rollers.
Got an old tv in the garage with a dvd player.
Add my old track bike and I can do that constant heart rate thing that I can't do at home because of the hills.
And it reminds me how to pedal.
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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Get a turbo or rollers, do it at home and save yourself the risk of catching a cold at the gym, a breeding ground for bugs if I ever saw one, and as tvrbird has already pointed out, gyms are full of w*nk*rs anyway!
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 956
Loc: Consett
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and it's essentially a kind of cycle masturbation,
TVR you have such a lovely way with words 
Have you ever thought of writing poetry:
'There once was a TVRbird
Who was great with the written word
Sharp, pithy and witty
Never one to take pity
And her posts were seldom absurd' 
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
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There once was rcruise63
TVRbird loved his poetry
But before she could tell us
The Forum got jealous
And he was banned from cyclingweekly
It *almost* scans....
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
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Loc: Consett
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
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Have you heard of rcruise63?
His emoticon use was heavy
Mostly 'laughers' and 'glasses'
On sad ones he passes
But uses the 'blusher' freely
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 956
Loc: Consett
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I would reply in limerick or verse
but then you would think me perverse
Better stop this before it gets out of hand
A poetry duel can get bland
But an idea pops into my head
Why not a limerick post instead
We could grab everybody's attention
Like tvr's legendary outdoor sex confession
On second thoughts better not
Or under Winegoblins collar will get hot
And it obviously won't amuse bfergie or BOSH
Who will both think its a load of old tosh
And anyway next week back to school
When I won't have the time to act the fool  
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
Loc: slumped over the keyboard
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By your flagrant disregard for the iambic pentameter I take it you're not an English teacher then? The relaxed approach to scansion, elision of your dactyls into your spondees, abrupt verse divisions and yet curiously weak caesurae, and free use of catalectic lines suggests something more in the practical arts...woodwork, mayhap? Interesting afflatus though.
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 956
Loc: Consett
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By your flagrant disregard for the iambic pentameter I take it you're not an English teacher then? The relaxed approach to scansion, elision of your dactyls into your spondees, abrupt verse divisions and yet curiously weak caesurae, and free use of catalectic lines suggests something more in the practical arts...woodwork, mayhap? Interesting afflatus though.
Freee vurs rools man
PS az ann inglish gradu8 eye am fery innsultted buy yur dissin ov me litrusee scills
PPS Woodwork - get with the times TVR, it is Design Technology these days 
PPPS in Primary schools we teach everything - we have the opportunity to mess up all areas of the child's education
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
Loc: slumped over the keyboard
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So you're to blame for the lowering of standards...I knew it!
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 956
Loc: Consett
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So you're to blame for the lowering of standards...I knew it!
At least I have achieved something with my life
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
Loc: slumped over the keyboard
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You must be so proud. On the national news and everything.
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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cheninblancrcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 956
Loc: Consett
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You must be so proud. On the national news and everything.
There once was a smart bird TVR
Who worked so hard to go far
She tried her best
But was sadly not blest
Now all she has are her teeth in a jar
Poetree 4 eva
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
Loc: slumped over the keyboard
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rcruise63 was quite worried
His verses increasingly hurried
The Bird's were much better
Rhymed letter to letter
Where Cruise's were more a la ee cummings dahling, akshully.
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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