The Indoor Riding/ Zwift/ TrainerRoad etc. Thread

[AndyCr15]

Smart bikes quite a lot heavier than trainers though aren't they? I thought the KICKR had some side to side on it? Or is that the Neo?

It's a good point. Google tells me it's 42kg. A DD Trainer is apparently about 22kg, so the weight over the rear, maybe 10kg difference? Then there's the rider at up to 100kg or so, so I wouldn't think the 10kg is a deal breaker?

No lateral movement in the Kickr, just a little as I have it on a thick Wahoo training mat. Maybe the feet have a little give too?

 

[Syla5]

What's your Streak up to? You mean the Strava one after the end ride screen... Or something else? Think mine is from May last year as even when I got knocked off in July I managed to get a ride in the end of the week after. It's always a darn holiday which spoils it!

But talking about actual real streaks... Longest I've heard of amongst my crowd is 850 days of Zwift. Cedric did get up to around 2500 days, but that was outdoors+indoors. Consecutive days of riding. Insane. But he was some semi-pro who rode lots of local Belgian races and training rides with lots of very good riders... Continued that from a young age even though now works in IT. Then he ended up part-injured/lost love with cycling/fell in love with a girl/recovered and now just returned to riding start of 2025 and is back to doing 500km weeks putting the rest of us to shame!

Not the Strava one, i dont have Strava, the Zwift one, it comes up after your first ride of each week, i am up to week 51 so far and counting without missing a ride, sure its not riding every day for a true streak but its making sure i get on the bike at the very least once per week around my other exercise.

 

[UTmaniac]

Think you need a power/cadence/speed source connected these days. You have to 'pedal within X' to actually join the ride?

Nope, you can skip pairing.

Join a robo pacer ride, you're dragged along as in coffee break for ~1min, you then start accumilating distance towards your 2Km for the week. If you're lucky/smart, you might get the 2Km in one attempt by timing the freeride moment on a long downhill like reverse/forward Petit KOM, otherwise click the icon to either rejoin the same robo pcaer or pick another one on the same world. Don't forget to activate coffee break in first ~3mins of freeride to get ~0.5 mile on the flat.

Another little trick is to click the u-turn icon if slowing on an uphill incline before your avatar drops below ~21Kph.

You can start this process by joining a group ride or group workout, but just make sure the world they are on has robo pacers that day, so you can quit the community event (having gained a tiny bit of shop drops) and then finish the quest for a 2Km session via the robo pacers.

 

[Roady]

For a change yesterday, I joined the 6pm ZRacing session on Zwift rather than a pre-breakfast time slot. The morning races are usually a small field of around 20. Last night there were 81 finishers.

Hells bells - it's way tougher in a big field. Going for a run in the morning might not have helped but I was scraping the barrel not to get dropped out the front group on the second lap (Outer Scotland). Just over 32 minutes of racing and I averaged 275 watts. More like a FTP test session but without the mental preparation to suffer like a dog!

Welcome to competitive Zwifting!

Actually thought I'd caused myself a medical issue on Tuesday... Went so deep on ZRL and eating too close to the start I ended up with some kinda 'sickness bug' afterwards. There's been one doing the rounds here so put it as bringing that on, but strangely after visiting the throne 5-6 times in under 3 hours afterwards and feeling like I wanted to 'call the moose' (but didn't). Went to bed and slept it off!? Been fine since - other people with the bug taking 2-3 days to be back to normal... Close call, or exercise induced diarrhea!?

Anyway, best 5 min power of the season while feeling utterly rubbish... 4.5w/kg!