Reader, I love cycling outdoors. I will bend anyone’s ear for hours about the benefits of being in the middle of nowhere on two wheels, and I don’t think it is too much of an exaggeration to say that riding my bike has helped me continue to stay on the straight and narrow, to keep me away from the mental health shaped wolf at the door. Throughout the pandemic I kept riding, through the heat and the cold of lockdown, even in the rain, because I simply had to keep going.
Throughout this, I never once considered cycling indoors. Mainly through stubbornness, because I felt superior thanks to my exploits in the great outdoors, but also because of the merits I see “traditional” riding having.
Also, it must be said, I am a 27-year-old without the resources to buy or the space, generally, to host a turbo trainer or subscribe to Zwift . It’s expensive! Essentially, I missed the boat on this one. The covid-induced boom, when it was harder to buy a turbo trainer than find the ark of the covenant, passed me by.
However, I have always been intrigued. There are people who bang on about how great Zwifting is and given this in the indoor cycling special edition of Cycling Weekly , I volunteered to give it a whirl. What could go wrong?
Day one
Thankfully, I borrowed a Wahoo Kickr that was hanging around in the CW offices, so no stress there. It should be noted that these […]
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