Concept2 Forum

I had the problem when I got a new machine, the handle felt slightly sticky, and I got blisters. An attempt to solve the problem with heat shrink tubing failed, too slippery. I now fold and wrap pieces of household roll paper around the handle ends, it gives a great grip, and no blisters. Works best...

ericallenboyd wrote:What foam did you use??

Quote from the text under the video:

"The foam is from a sleeping mat from a camping shop. It was £7.99!"

The thickness of the layers is around 10 mm, uncompressed, in the pads I have made.

I had the same problems, solved essentially as described in the link given above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnF9D6WJhwg I measured the distance and impression of the tailbones by the "Oasis" method given by Carl Douglas here: https://secure.toolkitfiles.co.uk/clients/25336/sitedata/files/Custo...

There is a calculator for age and weight "handicapping" available at:

http://www.vierzonder.nl/ergogewcalc.html

Background information (in dutch) at:

http://www.vierzonder.nl/symposium_oo.htm

The unit of the drag factor is given in http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/physics/ergometer.html#section7 "The calculated 'Drag Factor' k can be displayed on the Concept monitor (units 10^(-6) N m s^2)" The unit can also be expressed as Ws^3, equation 3.3, or kgm^2 (mass moment of inertia), equation 7....

Here is a link with information on the development of the C2 power monitor:

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/O ... lix_Kocher

I would like to run the concept2 utility from a batch file, typically to upload the days training data to the online logbook. I can do it by automating the interaction by scripting, but it is a bit complicated due to the announcements of available updates appearing at random times. So, what I ask fo...