VeloKey is a Bicycle Keyboard to Navigate the World of #Zwift @GoZwift

Let’s face it, indoor training kinda sucks. But our friends at Zwift.com have made it suck a lot less. Actually they made it kinda fun. Zwift allows you to ride with real friends and cyber friends from in a virtual world. You interact with the environment with (besides your bike) a keyboard, a mouse and a phone app. It is great as is, but we’ve come up with a more intuitive interface we call VeloKey.

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