Zwift Chat

[berty bassett]

Hang him

 

[bobinski]

Hang him

Still hungover?

 

[peterob]

Can I be cheeky Pete .... where there is an estimated time because someone hasn't completed a stage can you add that into the table, but maybe highlight it red or something so we can see it's an estimate?

Done! Where someone has been given the max completed time for a stage, this is highlighted in red.

I've added Chris's stage 6 time, but Aleman's isn't showing yet.

Martyn - no DQ's here! It's really not a race you know
Right...I'd better get ready for stage 6 myself

 

[berty bassett]

Still hungover?

Will be in a few hours

 

[Aleman]

Does that mean I can keep my stage 1 time, and only have to do Stage 4 on the Make up Days

1:31:08 Sorry Chris ... it was actually 1:30:36 under the banner, but Zwiftpower added on a few second I was really trying to hold it to 1:30 :something. Had to back it off at turn 5, I was toast and didn't have a gel or anything ... up until then pretty consistent watts for each segment

 

[CXRAndy]

Ive successfully converted my TT bike to Di2 .I was given the rear derailleur so just had to get a battery and long cable, shifts beautifully. Just need to fabricate a custom chain guide out of xarbon fibre and aluminium

 

[Breedon]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUgwR9gDHi8


This is a rough watch if you are interested in CVRcade as a potential zwiftkiller!

Saw that and it's very much not for me.

 

[Nebulous]

Well that was tough! About 1:50 I'm still not sure that the dumb turbo equates to my flux. There were times I seemed to be passing people where I wouldn't have expected to, and then times where more people than I expected were passing me. It was strange not having any change in the resistance as well. I just picked a gear I could turn reasonably well at a cadence of 90 and stuck with it. A bit like a time trial on a very flat course. Towards the end, as I was tiring, I mixed it up a bit, going up a gear and reducing the cadence for a while for instance.

 

[Whorty]

Done! Where someone has been given the max completed time for a stage, this is highlighted in red.

I've added Chris's stage 6 time, but Aleman's isn't showing yet.

Martyn - no DQ's here! It's really not a race you know
Right...I'd better get ready for stage 6 myself

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Cheers Pete

 

[Whorty]

Does that mean I can keep my stage 1 time, and only have to do Stage 4 on the Make up Days

1:31:08 Sorry Chris ... it was actually 1:30:36 under the banner, but Zwiftpower added on a few second I was really trying to hold it to 1:30 :something. Had to back it off at turn 5, I was toast and didn't have a gel or anything ... up until then pretty consistent watts for each segment

I watched you on the first few segments and you was flying .... still a great time though. Everyone put me in my place

I'll going to have another pop in the catch up days as I kept getting stuck in the 'sticky' draft yesterday and losing speed. Not sure what the impact was, but want to try it again with less riders.

As for your stage 1 time ..... nah, do it again Actually, I'd like to do my stage 1 again too as I did it when I was technically dead, so I'd like to gain a minute on that. So I'll aim to do stage 6 day 1 catch up, then have a pop at stage 1 on day 2 catch up.

 

[bridgy]

I watched you on the first few segments and you was flying .... still a great time though. Everyone put me in my place

I'll going to have another pop in the catch up days as I kept getting stuck in the 'sticky' draft yesterday and losing speed. Not sure what the impact was, but want to try it again with less riders.

As for your stage 1 time ..... nah, do it again Actually, I'd like to do my stage 1 again too as I did it when I was technically dead, so I'd like to gain a minute on that. So I'll aim to do stage 6 day 1 catch up, then have a pop at stage 1 on day 2 catch up.

Carl I noticed the other day going up ADZ that I got caught by the sticky draft if my watts/kg was 0.5 watts or less different to the person in front - if I was more than 0.5 w/kg higher than them I just went straight past. So give it a little extra dig if you can if you're approaching someone and your w/kg is only slightly more than theirs - not scientific but it seemed to work for me

 

[Perky77]

Nope to disqualification- this is all fun and pain. Just reset the trainer after you start Zwift ( turn off then on) just in case it is giving you some fairy dust. And if it isn’t then well done!

Thanks everyone. I’ll reset it next time I go on by unplugging when first set up.
It certainly hurt! I’m walking around like John Wayne

 

[Brendan Parker]

Not a stage for us “larger” lads

 

[Whorty]

Carl I noticed the other day going up ADZ that I got caught by the sticky draft if my watts/kg was 0.5 watts or less different to the person in front - if I was more than 0.5 w/kg higher than them I just went straight past. So give it a little extra dig if you can if you're approaching someone and your w/kg is only slightly more than theirs - not scientific but it seemed to work for me

That's what I see too, problem is when the hill is crowded and a constant flow I can power past one only to get caught by he next one. It fecks me off when I'm going 12/13 kph then suddenly get sucked into a draft and drop to 10kph, to then crawl past the rider and speed to increase to 13 kph and for it to happen again, and again. I'm hoping next time I do the Alpe there will be enough riders on the re-run to pace me, but not so many that my speed is constantly halted.

 

[JuhaL]

Stage 6 1:32 dead. With drivo2 i ride Alpe du Zwift nearly 8min slower than with Bkool Smart Pro1. I am gonna do my best to remove that PR in history someday. I set trainer difficulty somewhere 20-25% and it worked well, chain was in a bigger chainring all the time.