Wattage Cottage
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Wattage Cottage is a sharp, insider look at the evolving world of indoor cycling—where sport, technology, and business intersect. Hosted by Dave Towle, alongside Shane Miller (better known as GP Lama) and Zwift Insider’s Eric Schlange, the podcast dives deep into the culture and mechanics of riding indoors. From platform updates and tech innovations to racing, training trends, and the personalities shaping the space, the show blends expert analysis with authentic conversation. Whether it’s breaking down the latest in smart trainers and virtual racing or exploring how indoor cycling continues to redefine the sport, Wattage Cottage delivers informed, engaging coverage for anyone plugged into the modern cycling ecosystem.
Episodes
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Wattage Cottage Episode 8: Zwift Plus Is Here
Zwift just launched what may be the biggest set of changes in the platform's history, under the moniker of Zwift Plus. So naturally, we're dropping our first-ever emergency episode. It's a new premium subscription tier. It's a new adaptive training tool. It's… video routes? Dave, Shane, and Eric...
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Wattage Cottage Episode 7: A New Smartbike, Race Annulments, and Coffee Controversy
Indoor season is spinning up, bringing as always fresh hardware announcements and big races, coffee controversy and... magpies?! We begin with a deep dive into Stages Cycling's new SB200, the first complete smartbike to hit the market in quite some time. Stages are clearly looking to make a…
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Wattage Cottage Episode 6: This Season on Zwift and So Much Zwifter Data
Our latest episode focuses on "This Season on Zwift", this week's announcement from Zwift about what they have planned for the next few months. We're joined by Ryan Condon, who offers his totally unprepared reactions to each TSOZ topic before we dive in for a deeper take: - Zwift Ride V2…
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Wattage Cottage Episode 5: Garmin + TrainingPeaks and Femmes Fever
On July 22, Garmin announced its acquisition of TrainingPeaks, including TrainingPeaks Virtual. Dave, Shane, and Eric unpack theories about why Garmin made this move, and how Zwift may respond to a company with a big war chest buying a well-engineered indoor cycling platform. Then we move on to...
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Wattage Cottage Episode 4: Guest Ryan Condon, Tour Fever/Paris Expansion, and the Drop Shop Debate
Dave, Shane, and Eric welcome Ryan Condon to the show for a chat about losing weight, gaining health, and how Zwift is threaded throughout Ryan's cycling experience. (For those unfamiliar with Ryan's YouTube channel, he began his health journey at the age of 39, weighing 190 kilos. Now 8 years...
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Wattage Cottage Episode 3: Making Zwift Racing Great Again, Club Upgrades, Rocket Espresso, and a Junior Development Team Launch
The trio begins by diving into “Making Zwift Racing Great Again”. What could Zwift do to make the experience more engaging, more “indoor-only”, while keeping it all dead simple? From real-time points racing to elimination races without elimination to “Tantopia”, we dig into the possibilities.…
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Wattage Cottage Episode 2
In this episode: Shane just returned from China, and what he saw about the global indoor cycling market is not what you'd expect. That's where the conversation starts. From there: Tim Searle's expanded Zwift levels are out in the wild — how is the community actually receiving them? And when the...
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Wattage Cottage Episode 1
We couldn't have scripted a better opening week. Just as Wattage Cottage launches, the indoor cycling world got rocked by one of the biggest business moves in the history of the sport — and we're breaking it down on day one. Episode one of Wattage Cottage sets the tone for everything this show is...
About this show
Wattage Cottage is a sharp, insider look at the evolving world of indoor cycling—where sport, technology, and business intersect. Hosted by Dave Towle, alongside Shane Miller (better known as GP Lama) and Zwift Insider’s Eric Schlange, the podcast dives deep into the culture and mechanics of riding indoors. From platform updates and tech innovations to racing, training trends, and the personalities shaping the space, the show blends expert analysis with authentic conversation. Whether it’s breaking down the latest in smart trainers and virtual racing or exploring how indoor cycling continues to redefine the sport, Wattage Cottage delivers informed, engaging coverage for anyone plugged into the modern cycling ecosystem.
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