Zwift Chat

[bridgy]

Last night I did my second Club Ladder ride with Team Electric Spirit. I don't know if anyone's done these but they're a very different format to other Zwift races. Basically it's two teams, 5v5, in a scratch race, and team with the overall best finishing positions wins.

The team are all on Discord and it can be quite tactical as you plan strategy on the go!

This last race was a pretty flat course - Croissant in France x 2 laps - with an uphill finish (but no significant hills really). Often this would be a bit of a snooze-fest with everyone waiting for the finish but in this race there were lots of attacks and bluffs - helped by the fact we had ghost and burrito PU's which added a bit more chaos!

Ultimately it did come to a group sprint at the end - albeit a very long one - and we lost out to the other team overall, but it was really good fun


View: https://youtu.be/sjtprv8UQdA

 

[bridgy]

Last night I did my second Club Ladder ride with Team Electric Spirit. I don't know if anyone's done these but they're a very different format to ther Zwift races. Basically it's two teams, 5v5, in a scratch race, and team with the overall best finishing positions wins.

The team are all on Discord and it can be quite tactical as you plan strategy on the go!

This last race was a pretty flat course - Croissant in France x 2 laps - with an uphill finish (but no significant hills really). Often this would be a bit of a snooze-fest with everyone waiting for the finish but in this race there were lots of attacks and bluffs - helped by the fact we had ghost and burrito PU's which added a bit more chaos!

Ultimately it did come to a group sprint at the end - albeit a very long one - and we lost out to the other team overall, but it was really good fun


View: https://youtu.be/sjtprv8UQdA

P.S. only just realised watching the end back - it looks like my ghost PU glitched and didn't work! Not that it would have made any difference I'm sure but I don't know what happened there!

 

[mjd1988]

Last night I did my second Club Ladder ride with Team Electric Spirit. I don't know if anyone's done these but they're a very different format to ther Zwift races. Basically it's two teams, 5v5, in a scratch race, and team with the overall best finishing positions wins.

The team are all on Discord and it can be quite tactical as you plan strategy on the go!

This last race was a pretty flat course - Croissant in France x 2 laps - with an uphill finish (but no significant hills really). Often this would be a bit of a snooze-fest with everyone waiting for the finish but in this race there were lots of attacks and bluffs - helped by the fact we had ghost and burrito PU's which added a bit more chaos!

Ultimately it did come to a group sprint at the end - albeit a very long one - and we lost out to the other team overall, but it was really good fun


View: https://youtu.be/sjtprv8UQdA

That does sound fun. Are the teams all the same cat or mixed cat? That would add some more strategy but presumably would be much harder to arrange

 

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That does sound fun. Are the teams all the same cat or mixed cat? That would add some more strategy but presumably would be much harder to arrange

Each individual team is grouped together based on ability (although to be honest I don't know exactly what method of categorisation they use because as we know there are many! It's power based I think though, so not ZRS). But all teams of all abilities are in the same overall ladder. league

When the team is first put in the league it is positioned based on it's categorisation, but after that the only criteria is they race any other team within 5 places of them I believe - whether that other team is full of higher category riders or not. Then if your team wins you move up the ladder and if you lose you drop down - I guess the aim is to get, and remain, as high as possible.

You get to see the team you're going to be up against and their power numbers before the race which can determine your tactics for the race based on relative abilities and the course profile etc.

 

[mjd1988]

100% this. SL8 for the win at the moment. Halo bikes are just for fun and of no particular interest to me.

As far as I can tell on the zwifterbikes app the aethos is only better on pure climb when you get to level 5 and even then it's so small. I've been working on aethos but will probably prioritise TT bike moreso. But sl8 is the goat

 

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As far as I can tell on the zwifterbikes app the aethos is only better on pure climb when you get to level 5 and even then it's so small. I've been working on aethos but will probably prioritise TT bike moreso. But sl8 is the goat

Yeah agreed - according to Zwiftinsider tests the fully upgraded Aethos is only 7 seconds quicker over an hour of climbing than the SL8, and the trade off for that is that the SL8 (with Enve 4.5 wheels) is still 22 seconds quicker over the flat than th Aethos. So it would have to be a VERY climb focussed race to ever favour the Aethos over the SL8 + Enve 4.5 wheels. That's why I paused trying to upgrade the Aethos in favour of first getting the TT bike done!

I can imagine a ZRL race with avery long climb finish where I might want the Aethos so I will aim to upgrade it next - but it probably won't get used much!

https://zwiftinsider.com/top-performers/

 

[CXRAndy]

At the rate im going its going to be a very long time before I get Project 74 bike. I've not yet got past level 3 on the SL8.

This is the first bike Im wobbling towards level 5.

 

[bridgy]

Funnily enough one of my teammates on that Ladder ride was on a Project 74 (didn't really help him, he came 9/10!)