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Supersapiens Glucose Monitor Reviewed - Is Bonking A Thing Of The Past!?
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- The Superspaiens Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) has taken the cycling world by storm, now adorning many Pro cyclists' arms during the off-season and hitting the headlines when banned by the UCI. But is it any good for bike riders such as you and me? Here's our full review of the Supersapiens system from a cycling perspective to see whether it's worth your hard-earned cash.
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The Supersapiens system pairs with both Garmin and Wahoo cycle computers to help you better monitor your on-bike nutrition - can it really stop you from bonking on rides?
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 What Is Supersapiens?
2:47 Supersapiens & Cycling
4:18 Supersapiens Application
5:10 Supersapiens set up
6:30 The Supersapiens app
8:35 Supersapiens in use
11:55 Supersapiens price and conclusion
12;49 Outro
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I found supersapiens to be invaluable on Everestings, and especially on longer ones such as 10k, double, 20k and triple. While spikes and drops are hard to avoid, they can be managed, and for ultra endurance, that is priceless. Without sponsorship I am only using them for special events like this, but if the price came down, I would use them more often.
Regarding warranty, my experience is that the sensor is shipped from Abbott and not from Supersapiens. If the sensor malfunctions, they will send additional sensors free of charge.
And regarding the tech itself, there used to be a difference: supersapiens streamed, while diabetics sensors required nfc scan, i.e. convenience and data point frequency is different. However, with newer diabetics sensors hitting the market, that difference may well disappear.
Couple of concerns with this thing:
- A sensor does not protect you from under-eating or drinking too little.
- does the average ahthlete even know what his of her optimal interstatial glucose level is?
- who guides the athlete in interpreting the trends which occur inevitably?
- what is the warranty? Freestyle replaces sensors immediately and based on a short call (and they fail often). But how does this company handle that?
In short: dangerous without proper medical supervision, and certainly expensive.
And the sensors run 15 minutes behind your actual BSL which is a massive lag
Expensive yes but it is hardly "dangerous". At worse it is useless unless you have diabetes.
Yes, it's all boll@cks in my opinion too
It doesn’t really matter that you can’t use them during competition. The idea is that you can use them in training and understand how your body reacts to glucose and nutrition. You can create an optimal fueling strategy for race day by modeling the conditions and effort levels in training.
Hairy arms is not aero.
Really great explanation. Ironically the interest in this seems to be growing just as Supersapiens shut up shop. What do people advise to try instead?
All those images showing sensor on outside of arm have it in wrong position. Abbott that produces the sensor recommends inside or back of arm.
The glucose sensor is only half the way to go. Use something like a bluetooth controlled Insulin pump and charge the blood with pure Glucose! 120g carbs/hour would no longer be the limit. You could go at threshold power for hours!
...until your body switches the lights off...🤣
And it's STILL not available here in the US... 😠
It’s just a rebranded Abbot Freestyle Libre sensor.
It’s just a Libra 2 sensor, nothing special at 3 times the price you can buy then direct from freestyle
in short, no. see my comment above.
Cycling has become a sport for rich people. We've got $15k bikes, over $100 subscription payments, and $3 gels. How much would it cost for a normal person to race a stage in the Tour if they supported themselves? 10 gels? That's $30 in just food for 1 race! I'm sure its in the 10's of thousands of dollars. This is why gravel has become so big. Less competitive environment to compete with who can spend the most money for the most gains. Its really sad and it makes racing seem elitist. Thank you UCI, for keeping costs lower for us who want to compete and have the genetics but no trust fund to start.
Oddly enough, the $100 strava subscriptions annoy me more than the $15k bikes. You get nothing from that strava sub thats even worth $100. I still pay it just so I can view my power numbers and it's bs.
Nonsense. Yes there's plenty of expensive bikes and accessories to spend money on, but that's just what happens as a market matures. There's still plenty of options to ride cheap, especially if you're willing to buy second hand... another sign of a mature market.
I've just put a deposit down on a high end Hase Pino electric assist tandem bike. It's costing thousands of pounds. On the other hand I still enjoy riding my 10+ year old Btwin Triban 3 in to work, and also have a almost 40 year old Dawes Galaxy which I got for the bargain price of £35. There's a bike out there for everyone.
If you're talking about racing specifically, anyone who's been on regular club rides knows that strong riders are obvious in spite of their equipment.
It's interesting but after a few years I expect most people will realise that they don't need all that expensive stuff to stay fit and have fun on a bike.
@@jellyfishsalad5926 itll get worse because companies keep pushing new product when they cant even get it out to thier own dealers on time