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I use a cheap (~$14 USD) 20” box fan. It works well enough for me.

Kudos on ordering your C2. I doubt you’ll ever regret having done so. Here’s hoping you receive it before another wave of Covid lockdowns shuts down C2 production and distribution again.

I read the recent thread about what shoes people preferred for erging, but it seemed there were different kinds of shoes--like track, cycling and lifting shoes that posters recommended. I’m familiar with cycling shoes, but I don’t know anything about track or lifting shoes, so I didn’t really “get i...

G-dub wrote:..... a road bike on a magnetic trainer....

I use cheap MTB with a high-quality saddle on a CycleOps gel trainer. For an economy rig, it works pretty well.

I’ll be interested in saying what the experienced/knowledgable people (a group that I’m not part of) have to say, but I have to wonder about one thing. After a multi-year layoff, is moving up into hour-long sessions in >1 month maybe a little too quick to be hitting it that hard?

That photo is is worth a whole lot more than the traditional thousand words. Forgive my PC euphemism, but Ornish is one pudgy character. That jacket hides a lot, but I’d guess him somewhere in the high end of overweight and close to if not obese. I’m sure pix of him in full competitive cycling kit w...

Thanks for the advice and especially for the confirmation that I’m not the only one who get irritated by TheAlmightySpellChecker. I try to be at least a little bit articulate, but when The Mighty Machine keeps “correcting” me (despite its frequently being incorrect), I sometimes get irritated. Oh, w...

OK--thank you. I figured the cycling shorts would be wrong. That unique “chamois" of the cycling style shorts just didn’t feel right for a C2 seat. I’m glad I got that much right, which is an encouraging thing. I suppose after I spend ~$1K on a C2, worrying about spending another ~$40 on a pair of r...

I use a quality, dense closed-cell foam pad on top of the C2 plastic seat. The pad lightens up on hard seat-induced butt discomfort and I haven't had any problems so far with the boys wandering out of place and getting mashed, but so far I'm only doing 5-10 minutes sessions. I have a few pairs of cy...

I'm presently just starting into using a C2 at a local gym, but I'll be getting my own C2 in the near future. Thus far, I've been making do on my short, beginner-type sessions with cheap generic gym shorts. I've read that wearing quality rowing trou (like those from JL Racing, Boathouse Sports or Se...

.....I cool down with 30 mins on a bike. If I put enough effort in, I can lose 2lbs a day, but not every day. I know their are a lot who will say this won't work, but "don't knock it till you've tried it." 2#/day? Yikes! Is that even safe? Do you make a point of eating so that you put it back on an...

This one looks like a decent, low-cost foam pad -- http://www.joann.com/airtex-foam-chairp ... ad&start=4 ....
Has anybody tried it?

It's good aerobic training and for sure two hours on a bike in the clean air is more to enjoy than two hours on an erg. I’m ~200 miles S of Montreal. Winters are sadly characterized by bike trails/paths unusable because of accumulated snow/ice and road riding made dangerous by snow/ice and hostile ...

..... alleviating the boredom of winter time indoor work outs on a trainer..... Any aerobic activity done in the proper HR range will certainly help to maintain cardio fitness. And if the goal is variety and to break up monotony; cycling is fine. I’m new to erging and I intend to spend this coming ...