It’s rather silly
by carroll2005 (2020-05-30 14:00:15)

In reply to: Peloton Challenge on ESPN  posted by johnthomas02


With the caveat that Colleen Quigley is an absolute beast...

Peloton bikes don’t measure power. They estimate it. And the reported tolerance/quality control of a new bikes calibration is 10-20% error range.

So two bikes could by random chance be 40% off.

What that means practically is that my bike could be showing a resistance of 50 and feel half as hard as your bikes 50.

Makes it hard to have any objective “race”. There is a lot of speculation that Rory in particular (5’9” 160) has a “juiced” bike.