The leaves are in full swing in their quest to turn brown and compost into mulch on every road and cycle path in the northern hemisphere. The days are getting shorter, and the inexorable creep of the long nights of winter continues apace. For some of us this means a true off-season, while for others (myself included) it means donning the foul weather gear and leaving the jet wash by the door.
For many though, the last glorious ride of the summer before the seasons take a turn for the worse means only one thing: it’s time for indoor cycling. Turbo training of old was a pretty torrid affair, fraught with awful ride feel from wheel-on trainers, and a total lack of distractions save for the TV, music, or the next interval administered by a stopwatch mounted to your betoweled handlebars. Now there’s a whole plethora of hardware and software products to make indoor cycling more enjoyable, more comfortable, and more useful.