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Typing on the turbo

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  • 04-07-2017 8:23am
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    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever manage to set up their turbo so they can use a laptop on it? Or even a wireless keyboard, but I think the mouse would be awkward...

    I'm not really a big tv watcher, so I get very bored. But I'm also think of sneaking up some sessions when I'm working from home.

    A really tall but wide and shallow table?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    What sessions you plan on doing that allow you to focus enough to type?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Use Siri ( or equivalent ) voice recognition and shout code across to the couch

    Hey Siri, write me a new class, no java, public static hang on a minute I've a hiit interval no stop oh now look what you've done ....

    Actually, on topic, would a breakfast bar be the correct height? I'm sure ikea have some table legs free standing


  • Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭leopard trek


    They're quite expensive to buy new but hospital tables do go quite high depending on the brand - probably high enough for turbo use.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭mossym


    see if you can pick up one of these, or equivalent, there are loads. easy to use two handed without a table

    https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-920-000594-diNovo-Mini-Keyboard/dp/B0011FOOI2


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    I've got a half finished laptop stand the turbo you can have, it needs two legs on it to reach the ground but its a board that fits a laptop with a surround and then 2 hooks that go onto the handelbars. I got it from Carpenter when I bought a turbo off him. Can get pics tonight.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,343 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Jesus, a hospital table? Not a bit overkill, no???? :)
    I have something like this http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/40242177/
    About € 20.
    As said though, I wouldn't be doing much typing whilst actually training. Just a bit of banter before Zwift or getting my settings right before the pain starts


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,769 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Chorded keyboard?
    The large number of combinations available from a small number of keys allows text or commands to be entered with one hand, leaving the other hand free. A secondary advantage is that it can be built into a device (such as a pocket-sized computer or a bicycle handlebar) that is too small to contain a normal-sized keyboard.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

    You'll be up to speed by 2020, I reckon.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Raam wrote: »
    What sessions you plan on doing that allow you to focus enough to type?

    Sprint intervals. Sweat doesn't damage laptops, right?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Chorded keyboard?


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

    You'll be up to speed by 2020, I reckon.

    OMG! Now I want a Twiddler. I don't need one, just want one...


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