Yeh only time to swap is if you’re on your own or with others who also swap. Can then gain an advantage. And even if solo, your gains from two swaps will probably be cancelled out by a fast pack.
I had a practice yesterday. Got auto hot key and it’ll do the swap in about 3 seconds… When stationary.
12 attempts… Got one right. And that was me riding solo at cruising pace.
Another program affecting the hot key.
Pressing Keys in wrong order.
Avatar not stopped before trying to press a key.
Starting pedalling before the hot key has finished.
I didn’t learn very well.
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Seems too risky. Going to pass and I’m unlikely to be competitive unless I put the road bike back on the turbo
Go to pairing screen first.
It’s a piece of pie with a keyboard and mouse 
Maybe not when “sur le rivet”
That helps but it doesn’t stop you instantly; A - Esc - T and you can still be waiting for your avatar to stop and the Frame to become selectable
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Just watching the APAC race.
Men - no bike swap. Breakaway team going up the start of the epic; got caught - coming back down the epic!!
Women - peleton was kind of in half; an entire team stopped for a bike change at 8.8km.
They caught the group back 3km later (before the bottom of jungle).
Attacked going back up.
One lady not on gravel managed to stay with them. Out of the jungle - swapping back to normal bikes; the gravel riders had 20sec plus on the pack; the lone road rider gapped them by another 14 seconds.
The gravel riders and the lone rider came back together on the descent.
Still gapped the field with over 30 seconds and will stay away for the win!!!
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My team mate was following that. Switching to gravel is tempting right now. I get to ride in C cat and could do well today if the legs are up for it.
MTB is faster than gravel on the jungle circuit I think 
Didn’t they introduce new, fast event-only gravel in the jungle?
I thought gravel with Gravel wheels trumped the MTB. Especially uphill.
I thought MTB was quicker on a 100% dirt route 
Zwift Insider dude says with the new gravel wheels (ie not the basic Zwift ones) gravel bike is 1-2s quicker on a lap of the jungle circuit than MTB
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Got the bike swap to sub 5 seconds (the flywheel is still spinning when I get going), with the wife on keyboard.
Gonna be a call mid race
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You’re really treating Mrs mw22 tonight 
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She’s in the team car with the sticky bottle and the magic spanner 
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She wasn’t needed in the end.
Lots of bike swaps …our team was the only one not to swap.
Our team only one to have all 6 in front pack at finish.
2,4,9,11,14 and 20.
14th for me… Sprint started far too early for my liking…
League leaders after race 1 
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I was in the front group of 15-20 heading into the jungle and no-one changed bikes. The climb back up to the rope bridge whittled the group down to 12 and we contested the sprint with over a minute to the next group. I was 9th and my team mate was 8th
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I made the front group but missed a surge in the jungle by the banner and lost 5 seconds. Got back to the group but blew with HR over 190. 16k solo before forming a group of 4. Sprinted for 13th and got14th place. We had 3 in the top 6th so also leading the league
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I just went on to check my cadence, as sprint felt really poor.
Then saw my HR hit 203 at the end 
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@mw22 your missus is riding with Coco (with me) at the mo and dishing out the hurt on the comments! 
Telling the douche bags to shut up with the texting and work harder.
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