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Just 1,300 more miles until I’m a class 5 cyclist! ~Not-So-Handy Andy
Favorite Comment: showler said, “Wimp. I have a laptop stand mounted on my treadmill and am in the process of adding a trackball holder on the grip. If I add a keyboard tray I’m having it declared a home office.”
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Well that’s one way to do it I suppose…
i want one
That was my first reaction too.
I don’t think I would try to heal a guild raid to kill the Lich King while riding, but it could make my attempts to farm cute minipets more productive!
I donno call me wierd but this seems like a win..
I must be equally weird. I think this is a pretty clever win.
Totally a win!! Kinda said I never thought about it sooner!! All that time I spent getting to 80, I could have been getting cardio at the same time!!!
Watching tv while on a treadmill/cycle is fine but a computer isnt?
If I’m cycling hard enough to break a sweat, my mouse is not going to be very precise for gaming.
Win at an fps while cycling, put the video online, and I’ll award you most of my internets.
HellMoo.
World of Warcraft is not an FPS.
World of Warcraft is what is loaded on that laptop.
What are we gonna do with seven internets, Bob_Super?
Second that motion… I have no internets to give so I’ll give you bob_super’s internets.
Wimp. I have a laptop stand mounted on my treadmill and am in the process of adding a trackball holder on the grip.
If I add a keyboard tray I’m having it declared a home office.
FTW!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Treadmill-Desk/
Oh, he’s playing World of Warcraft, thats FAIL right there.
…and you know the login screen because? Hypocritical fail.
Cause it says World of Warcraft in the upper left corner?
You be hatin…
I do not want to hear that the last 4 (5?) years of my life have been fail.
FOR THE HORDE/ALLIANCE!
Horde/Alliance ?
Confused much?
That’s a hell of a good idea. Cycling is just boring. Playing WoW AND cycling is way more effective.
The scary part is that there’s a company that makes things JUST LIKE THIS. I have one. It may have been rotting in a closet for the past year, but I have one! http://www.gamercize.net/
Wanna sell it to me for next to nuthin?
Interesting way… but AI could bring us even more amazing ways of leveling up, for example, mind expansion beyond body death (http://www.eternity20.net)
Best part about this: They’re playing World of Warcraft as they cycle. That’s some kind of geek dedication!
Playing WoW is not geeky. WoW is far too casual for any geek label.
Well, that’s Wrath of the Lich King. If he’s got the Loremaster title (some 2000+ quests), it’s geeky. I’m working on it.
I don’t see the connection between playing Wrath of the Lich King and having accomplished the Loremaster achievement. They aren’t mutually inclusive.
He never said that. He said loremaster was geeky and just playing wotlk was casual.
3000.
No more waiting for that last tank before ready to go, because said tank has to “exercise”. Win!
Now just for added sadistic realism, add generator to bike/treadmill and power laptop off of it. ‘Course you die a lot since your virtual character suddenly can’t run tirelessly all those miles to the next post.
It actually wouldn’t be that bad. When you stop pedaling, the laptop just draws from the battery. You just have to pedal enough to keep a useful charge up, you can take breaks from pedaling if you have enough battery power.
It would be epic if in order to move he had to pedal and if he pedaled faster he would run
Haha this is only useful if he connects the battery to it.
I wonder how he’s handling the patch changes. They nerfed cycling big time.
The question is: Is the laptop powered by the stationary bike? (If you stop pedaling, the laptop loses power, therefore you must continue to pedal until you want to shut it down.)
Seriously! That’s really the only way it’ll work.
*In raid for two hours, work your way carefully to the final end boss*
*Boss is on ropes, in seconds you will get a super-rare drop for you last several hours of effort*
*In your concentration you forget to maintain your pedalling, game and computer shut off*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You’re exposed to Real Life! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
i’ve seen a variant of this. a treadmill hooked to the laptop and as you run on the tread mill, you’re controlling how fast your character in WoW runs.
There is no variable speed running outside of buffs/abilities in WoW. You might be thinking of lag.
Now, that would be a great motivator. The more calories you burn, the less lag you have.
They varied the length of time the ‘walk’ key was depressed depending on how fast you ran on the treadmill. So if you did 1 mph, it pressed ‘walk’ for only 1/8 of each second, and if you did 8 mph, it pressed ‘walk’ for 8/8 of each second (all the time.)
So if weren’t going full speed, the movement was kind of jerky, but that’s about how it worked.
I want one….
I tried this, but I tended to lose focus as I concentrated on the game and slowed down my pedaling. Having the pedaling linked to some game parameter, as others have suggested, is the way to go. I’m more of an elliptical man, though.
That laptop just sucks… A friend of mine got it and it’s trash by 5 motnhs of having it… Its a dell inspiron I think
When 5 months have passed from buying it, it is also incredibly out of date.
Sure is a dell 1525 Inspiron…. i has the same model J.U.N.K
well, it’s a model that’s WAY over 2 years old – what do you expect?
but for that time it was rather good. except the graphics card, it always sucked.
Yea, I got one for my birthday almost 2 years ago. It’s a “meh” laptop to get simple things done, but when it comes to gaming, the graphics card is absolutely terribad.
Put MAME with Propcycle on that computer, and you have a really sweet setup.
http://www.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=sv&q=propcycle&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=bJHGTMKlKs7oOZyi4K8B&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQsAQwAw
Thats the World Of Warcraft that you play!Yea-Ye-Yeah!
hahaha I must set that kinda thing up too!
I have the same treadmill and when I first got it, got an iFit subscription to connect it to. I should have taken a picture of the contraption I set up at the time to get the laptop to stay up on the windowsill in front of the treadmill! It was truly a kludge.
Oh cool that’s a cool idea… but instead I would want to watch movies online or something.
Alright, lets get this guy involved in the space program. Great idea haha
EPIC. that is so funny. i want to do something like that. i was trying to hook up something like that with a treadmill..but no treadmill =\
Gotta rig it up so that if u stop cycling it stops the power or something XD
Lets attach a dynamo to the laptop from the cycling machine, and a toilet to the seat, and have a minifride stashed with energy drinks and carbs.
weird…do you think you can pull it off?
XD