CS8.0 Bikes Owner’s Guide
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How These Modes are Different
C E: M E M
How These
Modes Are
Different
Operations
Restrictions
Setting
Pedal RPM
Limit
The two modes differ in the way they control workload:
Ergometer Mode: This emulates
a popular cycle ergometer whose
workload settings are in kiloponds
(see side bar) and are adjusted by
changing the amount of weight (in
kilograms) at the end of a brake
belt wrapped around a flywheel.
Many testing protocols are written
especially for such an ergometer.
These protocols can now be run on
the CS8.0 bike, either programmed
into a custom program or run
manually.
Medical Mode: This uses either
METs or watts, instead of
kiloponds, for workload control.
(Although that’s just like normal operation mode, Medical mode
adds the previously mentioned useful functions like no torque
roll-off and rpm limiting, and doesn’t allow riders to play around
with other exercise modes.) Most exercise prescriptions are in
either METs or watts, so this mode is useful for that.
These modes restrict operation to manual and custom programs.
Refer to Chapter 5 for manual operation and Chapter 9 for
custom program operation.
Change the pedal RPM limit in Setup Mode.
What’s a kilopond?
This is an obsolete unit
of force, equivalent to the
gravitational force on one
kilogram at the earth’s
surface, or about 9.8 new-
tons. Sweden made the
kilopond its official unit
of force in 1945, and thus
it ended up being used
in an ergometer made in
Sweden. It is essentially
equivalent to the force on
a kilogram at the Earth’s
surface.
