Yep. I get that and CGAF really what people want to do, they may fancy an easy day then start to feel it and let loose.
They may want to cheat a win. Good for them.
Just wondered if I’m doing the right thing as I was on the edge last night and ZP has be tagged as C nearly B.
ZwiftPower takes recent results, so if you’re a C and go over power limits for a C race, it won’t invalidate on the first one but if you keep entering C and breaching power limits it will eventually.
Pretty big news for those who race. Hopefully this means it gets fully integrated and not bodged on and forgotten about. Shame the original coders from ZP have left the project.
They didn’t buy it. They took control.
Interesting!
You are correct there.
Yeah, I usually drop down a cat for an easier ride.
I can only hold B for about 40 minutes, the surges kill me.
Yesterday, I was leading the group up the cobbles of the Champs-Elysees on the 1-3% killer climb, then around Arc du Triomphe, then back down, parallel with the Seine…all until the little tunnel section, with the tiny 5-7% kicker out, where the group all overtook me and went 2 seconds up the road, causing me to sprint to catch them back up. It killled me.
I sent the group a message asking them not to surge out of the tunnel, their reply?
Get to the front and surge up the hill, we will catch you up they said…
On the next lap, I realised that a lot of people must lie about their weight on Zwift, or there are a lot of people who are 60kg.
If I stuck my weight in at 65kg like a lot of people then I’d be 4.4w/kg and could cruise round the B cat races at 80% IF leaving lots of power for the sprints…
Yeah it’s certainly a weird one with the weight doping.
The other thing that gets me is the incessant ‘chat’ on group rides etc. LIke those riders at the front are tryinbg their very best to show off that they’re not working hard and they can sit typing away inane crap the whole ride.
When I am racing, there is no way I can type. What I typically see is Alpha male bulshit most of the time, to be honest they should just shut up and try to keep up
That nearly caught me out on lap 2 not helped just after that when everyone started shedding their power-ups
The Ventoux group ride I did on Saturday had a guy posting non stop dad jokes for an hour.
I was bit annoyed the start with But he just kept rattling them off one after the other!
I’m lucky if I can type out a lol!
But you could already do that in C cat if you really wanted without weight doping - just don’t try in races for a while and drop down? Winning a B is no ‘better’ than winning a C really, it’s all just arbitrary groupings.
Much better to put your real weight in I think and then judge everyone else and assume anyone who beats you is weight doping 
that’s what I do (recently was sandwiched between two riders who were ~50kg and over 50 years old -not impossible but 
)
A 50kg adult male is a rarity no matter where in the world. Zwift seems to have a high number of them.
Hoping Zwiftpower being taken in house doesn’t ruin the ‘racing’. For me it’s a fun way to get in a high intensity/workout and similar abilities being put together allows me to cling on and slowly improve.
This is what I constantly do!
I ride with a club, where two or three guys are proper Cat B (so Cat A+) in ZwiftPower.
There is no way there are that many good riders at any one time on Zwift.
Funny you should say that. Surprising how many neo pros and ex pros are on Zwift. I got chatting with a few after sharing comments on a particular race we were in. I looked them up on the UCI site so they were legit and rode as A+ riders and were smoked by a Cat C doing 470watts for 40 mins
You don’t need to weight dope. Take your wheel on trainer, calibrate with wheel at correct tension, let tension off before the race, hey presto input 100w, output recorded on Zwift 400w
Did the France Discovery Ride (partially) up Ventoux at lunch,
These rides are definitely not races, so I definitely didn’t race to get a top 40 placing and set a 1 hour power PB of 271W. Weighed myself this am and came in at 68kg so 1W shy of a genuine 4w/kg hour.
Pretty happy, have basically hit PB numbers purely off 3 zwift rides a week (about 3 hours riding total)
or, you weren’t trying hard enough before 
@Matthew_Spooner - Ah! Cheers for the trick…might try that…although my wheel on trainer doesn’t have a tension device, the wheel simply sits on the trainer. There is no calibration to do?
Bkool? You’ll have to wedge something between the arms of the trainer to lift the bike slightly off the roller.
Ps. I’m not on Zwift and don’t have the Bkool any more so purely hypothetically of course
Yeah, same one as you had - I managed to update it to FE-C, using that Spanish website (just go into the scripts and amend the version number of the hardware, then it auto-updates - seems odd that BKool purposefully didn’t allow older units to upgrade to FE-C when there was no reason they couldn’t?)
Hmm…now, what do I have to use as a wedge???
The Tacx Bushido I used to have was easy as you could calibrate with drive wheel clamped hard down on tyre, then just release to drive wheel to minimum friction. Make sure difficulty in Zwift set to zero otherwise wheel will slip. Only experimented with this for scientifc purpose, while weighing 45kgs
I assume that this is why IMVC do not permit wheel on trainers for the championship series