Ahhh not sure if I posted at the time, in 2019 my free hub did that on the Neo. It went really really rough and was garbage after 12 months use.
Interesting to hear this, reassuring me so thanks for sharing!
As my power numbers/averages have been so good since I removed the bad bearing (actually remounted the freehub with only an outside bearing!) I kinda kept riding it until the day after the new freehub arrived...
https://www.strava.com/activities/4639011135 - TDZ#3 up Ventop saw me get a pretty good FTP bump from 262W to 273W. Legs felt fantastic. Sceptical of freehub.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4648677230 - TDZ#4 Aqueduct another great ride, although not as deep as the previous still numbers are good (and bang on the new FTP). Happier with it and reassured it wasn't a fluke.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4659114518 - WTRL absolutely brutal, but hung on to the big boys who'd dropped me within 8km the previous week before the freehub problem solved. Massive ride and accomplishment for me.
Then sunday I did a double. But before it I had fitted the replacement T2805.01(S) Tacx branded freehub. So this was a bit of a trial to confirm to myself I still had the power from the above rides on a known good/ 'fixed' freehub.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4674356843 - TDZ#5 again a massive one but went too hard early so was really grovelling by the top of the Volcano. Very cold garage to start with. But really happy with the numbers! Still took over 2 minutes off my PR even though it felt 'slow'.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4675292147 - did 70km of the usual Sunday 3R Endurance 100km ride. Tough one as Zwift problems killed my companion app and many people where having chat problems. So very little distraction.
I actually rode on sunday with a bar heater on in the garage pointed at me from a good distance to try and heat the air. Garage was frozen when I changed the freehub (-3) but by the time I'd got riding was over 0, then by the time I reached the Endurance ride it was around 8 degrees (measuring with head unit on my bars). It worked quite well, but I did find myself in damp kit cooling very quickly without sweeping/keeping efforts I would normally be doing... But then much of that 2.5w/kg endurance ride is now z1/z2 for me!
So yeah, I'm now up to a 276W FTP. A crazy high number to suddenly 'jump' to without any specific training... If anything the reduction in TTT's over the break actually means I lost intensity, then the switch to working from home means I've lost lots of base/junk miles. The only reason for the close to 20W increase must be the freehub.
TLDR; check/service your trainer freehub bearings!
Kept in the second big group about 60 to 90th position until the zig zag climbs where I just put down some moderate power (330 to 340w) and I seem to jump a load of positions so I dug in and put a bit more power in and was ip to 40th by the top of the climb
I seem to be finding that... Seems absolute madness and full of heroes at the start and along the flats, but when there's a climb and they're all mewing like kittens I drop/catch/pass a bunch. Just like a real sportive then!
I stuck with front group until my neighbour came knocking at my door. I tried to ignore the door not knowing it was him but the window was open right next to me. Peeked through blinds and he realised I was cycling and said he'd come back in 30 mins but by that point I'd lost the front group!
Haha gutted but good work. Good excuse too! One of the jokes in the current TTT team is the captain not using push to talk, as well as suffering from asthma, so we get a good amount of him dying later in the courses while he's breathing out of his ar*e. So much so that when he skipped last week, we took it in turns to do the same (as we're mostly all on PTT).
Annoying on the TDZ today. Doing the A option and it loaded me in to Yorkshire world, but with the timing screens and position for the real event. By the time I had realised something was wrong and restarted everything I missed the start. has anyone else had this happen? Is it a known bug?
I slipped back fairly quickly and managed to stay with a group for a lap around position 140, then slipped back on the second hill set and finished mid 170s with an average of 233W (2.85w/kg and new FTP) so happy overall. Also took over 6 minutes out my previous best lap time, so definitely making progress!
Good work on those positions, what course did you ride?
I have had that before on Zwift - it teleports you to the 'wrong' world for the course the ride is on. Annoying, but quite a rare thing. I'll always generally 'join' the ride I'm in from Zwift power (takes you to it on Zwift site), before or while loading laptop/Zwift. Then I join the default world it has selected, get spinning checking everything is working, the event will be in the bottom left and I'll join using that. It does mean a world teleport, but I have generally found that teleport happens faster once I'm in a world already, rather than it being prompted from the first riding/course screen with the tabs at the top.
Ah pantaloons, I just forgot to do tour of zwift stage 4.
Catch up at the end! I'm going to re-ride stage 2 as I loved it and missed the first 10km due to technicals. Also missed stage 1... And would quite like to do a proper effort up the Alpe as part of a race type event too...
My issue seems to be a wifi issue that hasn't been a thing since I moved here.
I guess it's more an issue of interference than the outright range available on 2.4Ghz. Sure it might have higher range but if the signal is suffering interference it's going to be worse. Perhaps try some Powerline adapters for better reliability.
All riders vanishing from screen, then coming back is generally your connection, even lack of bandwidth can do this. I've seen it when someone fires up the PC in the house and it does a download...
We had an additional layer of insulation put into the outside walls (including the wall to the garage). Foil covered foam stuff into a metal floating frame. That really made things 100x worse, so much so it wasn't ridable/stable/reliable enough to consider racing with. I used a set of powerlines and it 'worked' for getting my connection stable, but then as companion app isn't on the 'same network' as the laptop running zwift it never got in sync (never took me to 'Game' screen).
Setting up an old router with large external antenna as a 'hotspot' to solve that is probably the best thing I've done. It's situated right next to the wall to the garage where I'm riding. 'Main' router is only around 6-7m away, but through another doorway and is a basic home type router without external antenna. It's been rock solid since... Even the times the laptop joins the wrong network, I get riding and it drops out... I can generally reach over and connect to the hotspot network, within 2-3s Zwift comes back with all riders and it rock solid. Zwift is quite a resilient platform for poor connections, so you seem to drop in and out rather than get disconnected!
Rolled around with the second group until the end. Not completely convinced I'd have stuck with the front group anyway but it would have been nice to try! (I realise this sounds like an incredibly elaborate excuse 
