Auto steering is now dreadful, I cannot understand why after 10 seconds my rider should move back to the centre of the lane for no reason whatsoever, this annoyed the hell out of me and unless they add an option to turn that off they must reverse this change.
We need a braking mechanism in the companion app. I’m not close enough to a keyboard to go through the steps to brake. An icon on the companion app would be smarter
Fab video. Found the same the grade was lower than my ramp and my ramp FTP is usually comparable to the 20 Min FTP. Im a heavier rider so i wonder if the switch backs sap that little bit extra, where a 20min or ramp is less so staccato type efforts. That said maybe thats psychosomatic as the grade looks pretty linear on the graph. Fab ramp result you did there 👍👍👍👍
This showed up in my feed. Are you considered good? my ftp is 10w lower doing the same test (I die 1min sooner) and i'm a couple of kg lighter than you. i'm trying to assess how sucky i am.
Well done, kudo's for doing two FTP tests in a week (and another one next week)! Found a number of small issues in Zwift, hope that they can fix this. Not sure you noticed them as you were going all-out ;) 1. The 440W interval was marked as completed (star) while you stopped a the start of it (great effort though!) 2. At 24:07 in the feed the intervals switched to 390-410-430W etc, while during the test they were at 380-400-420W etc. Switched back after a little while... 3. The resulting FTP value screen was shown for far too short, it is easy to miss, especially if you go all-in. 4. 75W cool down for 10 minutes is far too low for people with a 300+W FTP, turning off ERG is probably a good solution. Or Zwift could use a FTP percentage for the cool-down.
Appears that zwift took 88.8% of your avg watts to give you your FTP. Makes sense for only 14 min test. I wonder if the math changes for those of that take longer?
Congrats Eric! :D Not gonna lie, its fun seeing others suffering for once One thing I don't understand: is the time/distance fixed for everyone ? 14mins seems short compared to the usual 20 mins...
Very nice! It seems if you're more of a steady climber, less of a punchy climber, with a flatter power curve, in the spirit of micro-optimization you're best off riding the heaviest bike available to maximize the test duration.
I always do a cooldown spin around 15 minutes or more... but yeah, point taken. Should keep spinning the legs in the minutes right after I cross the line!
Yeah, we planned to do that… and once we saw that they were struggling, we kept pushing to hold the gap. Doesn’t always work, but it’s often worth the try.
Thank you for the kind message at the end of the race - Unfortunately, I have my in game messages turned off 🤦♂️ Great race and well done to your team 💪 it was no fun being the 1 in a 4v1 😂
Not on Android yet (just like every new feature for the Companion App). They seem to take days before appearing there, even though you've done the update. The update I did today said it was from 26th April, v3.57.0?? Why didn't this update appear before now? Guess the next version will have the new feature?
I wanted to know that what power meter are you using? are you using the inbuilt powermeter of the kickr ? Or a seperate power meter for zwift? i also have wahoo smart trainer and i am using the inbuilt power meter of wahoo smart trainer so i wanted to know that is wahoo inbuilt power meter is accurate as outdoor power meter because i don't have an power meter yet i am only using the smart trianer power meter
@@ZwiftInsider right now i don't have power outdoor meter but one time i have used my friends Power meter and i did a 20min effort and that's was more than 300 plus watts. so i will come straight to the point that on my indoor smart trainer v6 I can't even hold 260 270 watts for long time. so i guess outdoor powermeter and inbuilt are way more different.
I'm failing to see how this is a surprise to anybody who has done group/TTT rides on Zwift for more than a few hours. The drafting is pants (that means rubbish by the way!) - always has been and probably always will. Comparisons to IRW riding are useless, Zwift is a game and has to be accepted for what it is (or isn't). Having said that I miss RGT and its "wasted watts" display😢
I’ve tried riding at the minimum amount of watts to stay in the draft, and like your video, it was a lot, so I’m not surprised. Still, it’s very useful information. Thank you.
Interesting! Any TTT riders care to share how they counteract this? Like the lead rider stops pedaling for 1-2 secs after pull? Or 2nd rider shouldn’t ramp up to pull target before their pull starts?
I've suggested that if Zwift pushed you out to the side and into the wind when doing more watts than needed, it would make this obvious. I'm not sure this can be done though as some riders are using steering and will try to get back into the draft position.
