Stockholm Syndrome

My (cycling) lifelong hatred of indoor riding has been replaced with a problem at the other end of the scale: a week into Level Four‘s 6 to 9am freedom to exercise, I find myself heading back to the man-cave (my garage, IRL) for yet more hamster-wheeling. Every day.

by Tim Brink

...IT WAS THE MOST FUN I’D HAD IN WEEKS, AND THE HOUR WAS OVER BEFORE IT STARTED HURTING. It wasn’t always like this. I’ve been a serial indoor-trainer buyer for decades. And an equally serial seller of such items, almost invariably in mint condition. My record on a non-smart trainer is probably 45 minutes. There was just no way I could ever get to an hour; boredom and pain and claustrophobia won, every time. That changed when the kind fellas at Wattbike dropped off the new Atom for review, and I pulled the trigger on my $15-a-month Zwift membership. It wasn’t quite love at first pedal stroke, but from the outset, an hour on the bike was more than survivable. The Atom is a thing of beauty, arguably the leader of the pack if you’re…

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Bicycling South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, July - August 2020

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