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On the past weekend, the Neuen Messe Stuttgart opened with an exhibition unter the motto “Innovation meets emotion“. We had the opportunity to showcase our bike simulator there at the exhibit stand of the MFG. The visitors could use the computer controlled ergometer to climb real, GPS-measured mountain roads on a road bike; the resistance they had to overcome was matched precisely to the actual grade of the road (although we added a little cheat mode for the kids).
Of course such systems are already commercially available – for example from RacerMate or Tacx. However, for us this is only the beginning – possible options for future research range from biomechanical studies to new methods for performance prediction on new courses.
