My First Ibike Pro File! comments requested

[hakuna]

Hi All,

I just got my Ibike Pro calibrated and took it out to our local climb. I'm 49 and weighed 265 about 7 years ago when I started cycling. Now at 210, completely addicted to cycling, I've done quite a bit of touring, quite a few centuries and am heading to the French Alps this summer. I also hope to do the Markleeville Deathride someday. Anyhow I'm wanting to increase my climbing skill (I know, lose more weight!), but I was hoping some of you might have some general comments or pointers about this power file. Specifically anything that seems like good info I should be gathering from looking at it. We climbed the first little hill a bit hard, but the main hill we just spun up. I did sprint against my buddy at the top of the mountain, thus the power spike, and I chased a car downhill (not closely, but I didn't let him get out of sight), thus the power spikes coming out of every turn downhill. Anyhow, any comments or insights would be appreciated....

Gary

[coachboyd]

At first glance it looks to me as if your cda might be a little low.
If you look in My Documents ->iBike rides folder -> calibration rides you should see an ibcd4m file. If you send that to me I can take a look at it.

I have made a makeshift profile that might work a little bit better for you in the meantime. You can save this to your desktop, go to profiles->edit profiles in the software. Then hit the import button and search for this file.

Afterwards if you want you can hit tools-> switch profile after the ride to look at the data with this profile. The main thing that will change is your watts on the flats and downhills will be higher

[hakuna]

Thanks! I found that switching profiles lowered wattage over all, but I think it was the change in Crr that caused that. We have pretty rough roads in this area so I'm not sure. I think I need to redo the coastdowns and calibration ride to make sure things are kosher, but here's my original file.