THE UPPER PANEL
CHAPTER TWO: THE DISPLAY
Time: The amount of time remaining in your workout. If you press 
, this becomes
elapsed time: how long Distance: An you’ve been working outestimate of how
so far.*far you would have traveled on an out- door road bike.*
Watts: The amount of mechanical power the bike is receiving from your exercise. This is not the same as the amount of power your body is using, since the average person is only about 20% efficient at generat- ing mechanical power. *
METs: Your
METs rate.*
RPM: Your pedal cadence. *
Heart Rate: In beats per minute (bpm).*
Calories: An esti- mate of your calories burned. This doesn’t include your basal metabolic rate, which is about 72 calo- ries per hour for a
*Pressing the “Change Display” key switches the readout from the top values to the bottom values and will light up the LEDs of the values now being displayed. If you press and hold the “Change
Display” key for one second, the display will enter “Scan Mode” and
switch between the two sets of values.
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