Zwift Chat

[bobinski]

Picked my bike back up yesterday - now has Ultegra Di2 R8150 12 speed fitted - oh and moved from 25mm to 28mm tyres.

Just a 2 hr recovery ride today to try it out.

Don't forget to drop the psi a little. 60/65 on my 35mm tyres at 74ish kilo's and probably a little too high.

https://axs.sram.com/guides/tire/pressure.

 

[mjd1988]

Spoiler: Giro

poor Derek Gee! Giro has been a slow burn from a GC perspective but all set up for a good finale

 

[CXRAndy]

Exciting stage, mega tough

 

[Peter Salt]

Exciting stage, mega tough

You mean us in the FRR or those amateurs in the Giro?

 

[CXRAndy]

You mean us in the FRR or those amateurs in the Giro?

Without question FRR

 

[Peter Salt]

Without question FRR

My race reminded me how hard Zwift competitions can be. The 20-minute monthly series made me lazy.

I've decided to push up that first hill, try and stick to fastest riders I could. Managed to get in the 2nd group of 7, just 5-6s behind the front - which we caught on the downhill. Was very happy at that point - figured I'll be able to hold on to them until the finish, or at least Aqueduct.

14-15 minutes in, I started to hurt really bad - went out too hard, and they kept on pushing. I got dropped in the most brutal way - lost the wheel, and saw the gap growing, but I couldn't bridge if my life depended on it.

Waited for the 2nd group that was almost a minute behind, used them for the Marina sprint. Couldn't hold their wheels after, so waited for the 3rd group, 30s behind. The latter then caught the former so there was decent draft for the Pave. Couldn't really do much through Aqueduct but held on to the group. Then, completely and utterly exploded up the Petit - over a minute slower than my PB and ended nearly 60s down on the group I was with.

Delicious humble pie. But got 2nd and 3rd FTS on the sprints across all Friday races.

 

[CXRAndy]

Feel for you Pete.

 

[mjd1988]

Some finale at the giro! Worth a watch of the highlights

 

[Peter Salt]

Spoiler: Giro

watch it

Not really a spoiler, that. Exciting, wasn't it?

 

[mjd1988]

Not really a spoiler, that. Exciting, wasn't it?

Haha yeah I just changed it! Cracking ending to the GC

 

[13 rider]

I don't think I every got so stressed watching a bike race

 

[CXRAndy]

Best man won

 

[Joffey]

Spoiler: Giro

SRAM will be happy that their crappy group set didn’t cost their man the win!!!

 

[JuhaL]

Spoiler: Giro

SRAM will be happy that their crappy group set didn’t cost their man the win!!!

....and that group set was gravel group set. Maybe in a future we see Sram gravel group sets only with road bikes and Sram road group sets with gravel bikes if it's work better that way . Opposite what Sram meant.

 

[Joffey]

I only have experience of a Rival 1x on my gravel so my opinion may not be reflective of all their offerings, but in my experience it is dreadful clunky muck!