Virtual Zwift Rides

Yeah, you’ve been mugged right off there!
That ZA Road Race was a good scorer for you :+1:t3:

Bought Apple TV afew days ago none of this setting up 25 mins before now… Defo Game Changer

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Yep, I reckon I’m down to 90secs from walking in the garage to being in the game. It would be even less if the ATV remote wasn’t so shit.

I use a PC, and I’m that, and it includes swapping the bikes on the turbo, getting three computers connected, even the laptop stand if I need to type while riding. What delays other people?

Maybe it wil take a little while to update my ranking, it has been slow in the past. It’s not currently using today’s race, which is my second score under 400 now.

Aha! @Poet I just needed to click refresh profile under my Avatar! Now 404.59.

I was working hard to catch and drop a Swedish behemoth on the Climb, who I knew had a ranking in the 200s. It worked; he couldn’t catch us after the summit and finished 6s behind. Bosh - points bonus :+1:

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Crit City race, B cat. Felt pretty good, after some hard efforts with the TT massive, last week. But had a quiet weekend so was feeling good and rested for this one. Was leading with 200m to go, only to get swamped for 14th place. I really don’t have any form of sprint. But quite nice to see this pop up.

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Wow, that’s a huge jump!

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nice :+1:

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Thanks :+1:

So I managed to adjust the parameters a bit on zwift, with the inertia adjusted, I can now ride around on the flatter stuff more comfortably, still find Box Hill and the escalators less realistic and tough so more tweaks needed there, but I got up to 253watts for 20 minutes, about a 30watt gain on previous best I think (still not even absolute watts in the house though, despite being 20kilos heavier…)

Biggest change is just adjusting the aero parameter of the rider to not be riding a mountain bike which zwift leaves it set at, it’d be no time at all for them to add a little slider in the UI for it, but no, expensive smart trainers able to simulate this but zwift doesn’t bother… No idea why it doesn’t change with the bike, or the drafting factor change when you’re drafting, how much better would it be if you could actually feel that you were in the draft because the resistance lightened like in real life?

Going to provide more adjustment next, let me control it as I ride to really find something right, and maybe adjust the zwift gradients to be friendlier, get rid of silly steep bits, or silly downhills so I can keep the watts on.

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GOOD BLOODY WORK!
And at 50 years old :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::face_with_hand_over_mouth:
Well bloody done.

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Anyone know why I’ve not got my badge in the cabinet?

This was from last week…about to do it again, but remembered I’d done in.
Pretty sure I’ve also done Lutscher, which also isn’t showing

ETA: sent an email to support :+1:t3:

@jorgan @gingerbongo @TROSaracen
Any of you up for a race tomorrow at all?

yes i could probably shuffle a few bits around the lunchtime-y slot. Anything springing to mind

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No race for me until at least Friday. Need some gentle recovery!

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No. Nothing really.
You have a look as well.

Whilst looking, I saw this, which made me laugh.
Bloody UCI still working on pointless regs

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Looks like a bunch of very similar races at that time

Volvano circuit, BC crit, ZHQ crit, 3R laGuardia

OR a 6km Bologna TT! :rofl:

Or a quality bit of tongue in cheek from whoever runs this portfolio?

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No. It’s the actual UCI eSports world champs.
No tongue in cheek here

Haha, this could easily merge into the ST thread! There was a discussion over there years ago about how irresponsible it was to have your avatar in Zwift riding without a helmet. :smile:

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