Zwift Chat

[mjd1988]

Anyone else been drops farming on the sprint section of the Mayan8 route?

Nipped on yesterday (after seeing it on a you tube video) and the section was packed. Got myself a few extra drops whilst pootling in zone 2 for a hour.

By all accounts Zwift are ok with this. I'm guessing that with the new bikes etc due to drop (see what I did there?) they are keen for riders to have lots of spare drops to buy the new kit and show it off.

I'll be on again later to get me a few more

Finally doing this. Bit bonkers but actually a nice wee community feel, everyone's in a good mood 🤣

 

[Whorty]

Finally doing this. Bit bonkers but actually a nice wee community feel, everyone's in a good mood 🤣

It's active until the 20th apparently - as you say, a nice community feel, lots of chats going on. With the new kit coming around, Zwift have given us a chance to get a drops boost. Hundreds are on the route at any one time, it's very popular

 

[mjd1988]

It's active until the 20th apparently - as you say, a nice community feel, lots of chats going on. With the new kit coming around, Zwift have given us a chance to get a drops boost. Hundreds are on the route at any one time, it's very popular

Yeah I'm a bit late to the party, I think some people have literally made millions! Few hundred thousand just to pay for the TT upgrades will do me

 

[steverob]

I did an hour of drops farming on Tuesday and another on Thursday and managed to get over half a million drops in total. Probably could have got more if I did the teleporting trick (I just U-turned after the banner and cycled back) or put in more effort than the Z2-3 I did, but I wasn't too bothered. I only wanted enough to afford my level 5 climbing bike upgrade.

 

[Whorty]

Yeah I'm a bit late to the party, I think some people have literally made millions! Few hundred thousand just to pay for the TT upgrades will do me

I think I've farmed about a million or so which goes towards upgrading the Tron (once I've upgraded 3 Zwift bikes). I do it on the BMX which I'm working to upgrade, so 2 birds with one stone.
I don't use the teleporting which many seem to do - I just keep looping round, although teleporting apparently lets you farm almost twice as many drops.

 

[CXRAndy]

Completely missed this. But I dont think I could be bothered looping around a course. I suppose I could set up a bot to ride endlessly to do it for me

 

[alex_cycles]

Yeah I'm a bit late to the party, I think some people have literally made millions! Few hundred thousand just to pay for the TT upgrades will do me

I finally got level 4 Aethos today. I've been mostly outside recently apart from ZRL. You get XP for outside but not drops or bike upgrade credits. Only 4000 metres climbing and 750kilodrops to go. That might take a long time to get if I'm outside more now.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Anyone else playing "guinea pig" for the first Yumezi Grit race starting shortly?

On paper, it looks very tight between gravel or road bike being the correct choice. Not sure how up I am for full-on racing, but will give it a go and see what happens, it's not as if I have to worry about GC position after I had to abandon racing effort and just coast home last Monday on Handful Of Gravel!

 

[alex_cycles]

Anyone else playing "guinea pig" for the first Yumezi Grit race starting shortly?

On paper, it looks very tight between gravel or road bike being the correct choice. Not sure how up I am for full-on racing, but will give it a go and see what happens, it's not as if I have to worry about GC position after I had to abandon racing effort and just coast home last Monday on Handful Of Gravel!

Nope. Saving my energy for ZRL tomorrow. Scratch race 3 laps of Croissant.
Good luck and enjoy

 

[Whorty]

For anyone thinking of upgrading the BMX ... what seemed like fun initially is now turning into a game of attrition haha I have about 7 rides left to fully upgrade the BMX (flat Tempus rides!)

Then 7 or 8 rides on the epic KoM 'see-saw' to fully upgrade the Zwift BMX

After that, it's the 'easy' upgrade of the TRON, for the next 2 years

I've missed riding the TRON, I still think it's a nice status bike and I'm hoping to fully upgrade that over the next 2 years so that it becomes my go to flat/rolling race bike (to replace the SL8 on everything but hillier courses, which I avoid anyway)

 

[alex_cycles]

For anyone thinking of upgrading the BMX ... what seemed like fun initially is now turning into a game of attrition haha I have about 7 rides left to fully upgrade the BMX (flat Tempus rides!)

Then 7 or 8 rides on the epic KoM 'see-saw' to fully upgrade the Zwift BMX

After that, it's the 'easy' upgrade of the TRON, for the next 2 years

I've missed riding the TRON, I still think it's a nice status bike and I'm hoping to fully upgrade that over the next 2 years so that it becomes my go to flat/rolling race bike (to replace the SL8 on everything but hillier courses, which I avoid anyway)

Still working on the Aethos but it's going to take a long time. I don't know quite what I will work on after that. I was thinking to do another Specialized bike and then go for the Spesh halo bike. But if I'm honest, halo bikes don't really 'do it' for me at all. We'll see.

I do have fond memories of doing a DRS TTR with the whole team on pink Tron bikes, but I do like the SL8. Would be nice if you could have custom colours.

 

[alex_cycles]

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/-AgmqfnXY7w?si=5llkIwD0kLFOdHXL&t=279
ZRL this morning. I came top half. Long flat one quite hard for me. nothing left at the end, but the team did well.

 

[mjd1988]

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/-AgmqfnXY7w?si=5llkIwD0kLFOdHXL&t=279
ZRL this morning. I came top half. Long flat one quite hard for me. nothing left at the end, but the team did well.

Yeah it was an odd one. If our race was a day at the tour on tv I'd be skipping the highlights through to the last 400m. There was the occasional break and a handful of people were dropped before the end but generally it was all leading up to the final sprint with lots of people trying to draw it out into a 2km effort.