My ANT+ issues have irritated me all day. Fortunately, being a tech nerd, I have an odd assortment of cables around the house. One of which is a long male to female USB extension cable.
After work I plugged this into the PC and, whilst the fish and chips cooked away, got in a short testing session. The USB extension cable allows me to put the ANT+ dongle in one end, and use the cable to put the thing right underneath my Tacx Neo.
And fortunately, it seems to have worked. At least, initial testing seems positive.
It was a bit stupid of me to jump straight into a sprint. That’s one of the downsides of the London Classique course. The forward sprint is dropped on you almost immediately.
Given that I’d been mucking around trying to get the blue tooth dongle to work for ages, and then having given up and switched to the ANT+ dongle, I was already frustrated and just wanted to smash out as much as I could.
I messed up though. My first attempt was in the wrong gear, and I had to accelerate from almost a stand still once over the line.
After the sprint I tracked down to the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace, and then reversed.
Hitting the London Classique reverse sprint for the first time, I still messed up my starting point a touch – thinking the mini map green sprint symbol was the start of the sprint. Not so. It’s the end.
Even so, I managed over 500w on this sprint, and felt this was probably the best I was going to give, but frustrated at messing up the start line.
At this point I was feeling pretty good about the ANT+ dongle setup. It seemed to be doing the job.
Finally.
On my second attempt at the forward sprint, I got a much faster entry so managed to put in a much better time.
By the time I’d rolled around for the fourth sprint – the second time up the reverse sprint – I was feeling pretty bushed.
At one point I saw I hit 7 w/kg, so was pretty happy with that. I was putting in too much effort to be able to consider taking screenshots unfortunately.
I took one last attempt at the forward sprint, but couldn’t match my strongest sprint – the second one I’d done. Even so, I managed faster than my previous (with a longer recovery).
On the left are my forward sprint times. I have many more of these, as I have never ridden the London Classique in reverse. Yet.
Once more I forgot to take screenshots at the end of my ride. This is much less obvious a thing to do for me in Windows, so I need to break the bad habit I’ve formed.
Hopefully the ANT+ dongle with USB extension does the trick and I have solved my Wahoo TICKR drop out issues.
We shall see.