Training (entertainment) progresses!Minoura's tablet holder for indoor bicycles
The author uses a virtual fitness app called "Zwift" to solve the lack of exercise by indoor cycling. However, no matter how much you can play like a game, you get tired of running just plainly. So, apart from the Zwift screen, I've become a habit of running while watching videos with my smartphone nearby.
Apart from the Zwift screen running on the computer, I also prepared a smartphone to watch the video, but it is small and difficult to seeHowever, it is still difficult to watch videos on the screen of a small smartphone, so I feel like I have a bigger screen, a bigger screen, and so on. I wondered if I could use a tablet with a 10-inch display, so I found Minoura's tablet holder, which is famous for bicycle accessories.
Minoura tablet holderObviously, wearing a tablet on a bicycle and running outside is dangerous in many ways. Therefore, this tablet holder is an item exclusively for indoor cycling. In that sense, it may be a very niche product.
Nevertheless, there are many tablet holders for indoor bicycles from other manufacturers, but among them, Minoura's tablet holders have two main advantages. One is that the holder itself is easy to put on and take off. With a structure that grips the handlebar with a clamp and tightens it with a lever, it can be quickly attached and detached without tools. For bicycles that are used not only indoors but also outdoors, such ease of attachment and detachment is an important point.
It can be easily fixed to the handle by tightening it with a lever.
The other is that the arm is a little longer and the tablet can be fixed in front of the handle. What is good if it can be fixed in the front is that it is hard to sweat.
This "difficult to sweat" is very important for indoor cycling. During training, sweat will surely spurt out from your face, arms, or even your whole body, so sweat will fall around the steering wheel. If the screen gets sweaty, it will be mistakenly recognized as being touched, and the video you were watching will stop, jump to another video, or return to the home screen. Of course, it could lead to mechanical malfunctions and failures.
When placed horizontally, it can be fixed in a front position that does not cover the handle. When placed vertically, it will cover the handle slightly, so be careful of sweat.Even though it's only a few centimeters, it's surprisingly big that you can avoid this sweating problem to some extent by just fixing the tablet in front of the handle. You can watch videos while Zwift with confidence, and training will be more fun.
However, if you lean forward, such as by dancing, sweat will fall on the screen, so it's best to use a longer arm. Since the structure of the arm is simple, it may be ant to extend it using a stay like in a home improvement store.
The tip of the stay. Since the structure is simple, it can be extended if processed (at your own risk, of course).However, it turns out that using a tablet causes some serious problems. By fixing the tablet with a large screen in front of the steering wheel, the wind of the circulator facing the face from near the front floor is completely blocked. Heat measures are the most important thing in indoor cycling, so I would like to reconsider the position of the circulator.
Is it the neck that the wind from the circulator placed in front of the front wheel is blocked by the tablet?So, although there are some issues to be cleared, watching videos is much more comfortable than smartphones, and because it is firmly fixed, it is easy to operate the screen, so it seems that I will be more and more involved in daily training.
| product name | Selling agency | price |
|---|---|---|
| Tablet Grip TPH-1 | MINOURA | 3795 yen |