I think it’s the disc wheel that makes the other frames faster.
I’m at lvl 32 so I believe for any flat or rolling race the tron is my best bet. My other option is the S5 and Enve 8.9s but like you I’ve millions of drops with nothing to spend them on!
Ah right, so for the Crit City or Champs Elysee you reckon Tron then? What about the Volcano Climb or Richmond UCI courses; I usually use the Madone/Enve 3.4 on that? Tarmac only for proper hilly races.
The trick is finding where a flat course becomes lumpy. Or where a rider needs more/less help.
The other thing with a lightweight climbing set up…is not many races finish at top of a climb… So you also need to work harder downhill.
The Tron is just the best all rounder. Not losing much to any set up on any course
@Jorgan you’d also be better with the DT Swiss wheels over enve 3.4.
Same climbing time, but the DT faster on flat.
And deep rims are more bling innit 
15s, and it was 11.3w/kg… i may have exaggerated a little.
I guess it is possible, the guy has an FTP of 290w and weighs 53kg, if this is true he must be an awsome climber
Groin is still a bit sore so no running yet, so I had a go at the handicap TT race tonight, first race in Cat A, never really planned on going full pelt though, legs were feeling a bit tired. It was a fairly thin field though.
Fairly steady pace throughout and the hilly volcano course was never going to suit me. After a slow start I went past a few, but they went past me on the steeper bits of the climb. Caught a couple on the descent. Only 6 Cat A finishers, I was 4th but only about 14 seconds off 2nd.
Not totally sure how it works when a few Cat B’s take the top 3 on 3.5W\KG, not sure if there times were actual times or with the 2 minute headstart they go.
I did my first race on Zwift, tge British Truathlon handicap 1lap of some route, about 20 miles pretty flat. Went in cat B 3.2 - 4 W/kg…finished 9th on 3.9 W/kg. Really enjoyed it
Can anyone recommend a longer race with some hills, I could look through all of the events but it’s easier to ask you.
I think some of the extra sites make it easier to find races TBH, the main Zwift one is terrible.
53kg, 15s seconds at 11.3w/kg is what the 46year old woman sitting next to me has done at the end of the race, and I’m not sure she’s ever won a sprint. She would certainly find it very hard to put out those watts on a turbo, but I’m not sure that’s the same for everyone.
I’d certainly see that as completely reasonable for a light man who have the extra watts, possibly even advantage as the turbos won’t max out at the peak watts a 75kg guy would.
I’ve done 12w/kg for 20seconds on the road, and also would get destroyed in any real sprint in a road, by 3rd and 4th cats, let alone real riders.
New2tri Facebook group (much better than IMJ) is running a 3 month Zwift competition. Worth joining, partly because they are a nice group, but also for the competition.
I guess I shouldn’t be so suspicious. I know @Daz can do more than 12w/kg… it’s just alarm bells start to ring when I see men weighing 53kg… I am sure that there are some genuine light weight guys, but also loads of weight doping on Zwift.
I sometimes ride with a Guy called Glenn Borrett, he used to ride for team GB in 2006/07, he reckons he can hit 2000w for 5s, which is somewhere over 20w/kg
Chances are there’s a bunch of weigh doping going on but I remembered a comment about Kenny Ellisonde (sp) being 8.5 stone which is c.54kg so there are some light pros out there
They were talking about the lightest rider on this year’s TdF coverage; sure he was 64kg.
The Internet says Leonardo Piepoli was the lightest ever at 57kg.
Google reports Kenny at 52kg apparently, 1.69m tall
Regardless… That means the zwift chap is even lighter than all those. There will undoubtedly be the odd lightweight beast on zwift, but probability tells you that there’s a much bigger chance it’s a load of bollocks!
I don’t know a single guy under 60kgs. Sample of one of course.
Well with Ineos’s reputation for sorting out diets and making people light, I’m sure we’ll see Pidcock take Piepoli’s record!
I know many sub 55kg male riders with great sprints, they tend to be teenagers, sure there’s weight doping in zwift, but it’s hardly out of the realms of normality!
When I’m running short on bikes spares, I’m going to wait until all these Zwift racers pin on a number in real life and bring a big bag.
It’ll be like a supermarket sweep. 
It could come as a bit of a shock that you can’t take a hairpin bend at 70kph
I now understand why I am being dropped on short climbs on recent Zwift races… and its kind of silly. After the summer, I didn’t realise that there was an update for the Tacx Neo 2T and for some reason ergo mode had stopped working. I.updated the SW and Ergo mode back and running. I feel very sillty that I failed the notice that the intensity didn’t go up on the hills, I knew something didn’t feel right, but just thought that I must have the trainer difficulty set a little low, it was only when I put the difficulty on max that I realised that it wasn’t working.
This is very significant for me as I don’t race well if the trainer difficulty is set very low, I need to feel the hills. Now that it is as it should be, I am much happier.
That disadvantages you in the sprint remember on the neo, the motor will kick in and make it harder to put out the watts!