<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
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bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
I really enjoyed reading it. Reassuring and ( occasionally) worrying at the same time!
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
hows the quest for a new jersey going ?
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
And then you went out and bought a track bike 🧐😄
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
yeah but that’s coz one of the things the book says is ignore ftp and numbers oriented turbo and ride for pleasure👍😁
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
I was hoping someone would set up a poll. And frankly I’m surprised that there haven’t been multiple polls by this point! But I have a feeling that the general mood was:
- some people like the idea of the rapha jersey, but I don’t think enough people to really call it magnanimous
-so then the option we have is to design our own jersey , or use another cycling brand but put our name / club name / or both on it.
Personally I think design our own. Design something that will separate ourselves from the masses in a big field event so we can pick eachother out, but not so garish we have Laurence Llewelyn Bowen asking for the name of our tailor!
And guys my opinion is let’s go for something of decent quality. Or maybe we can split the order / design, between two different brands to try and cater for everyone’s budget
If I was to wear that size it would literally be doing that
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
i do like the name splitters or the splitters though.
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Think I might have found the ultimate sandbagger/cruiser on Zwift.
The guy who I mentioned previously who was listed as a D despite his top three results all being mid-C class; so after posting about him on the Zwift forums (didn't mention any names, just flagged up that there might be a calculation bug in ZP), the admins took a look and manually promoted him to C. They also retrospectively DQ'd him from my race, meaning I now have the win - wasn't expecting them to do that, but cool that they did.
So I went back onto ZwiftPower today to take a look at his profile and saw that he's raced precisely once since then and finished with the fastest time in a B race, averaging over 4 w/kg for 20 mins, which means in a matter of two days, he's gone from "D almost C", to C and now to "B almost A"! Possibly realising he's been rumbled, he's now decided to race at what was his correct pace all along.
And yet for the whole month of August he's been entering a D race almost every day, winning them all of course, while making it look like he was racing at his limit and so avoiding the two (possibly three) levels of promotion that he was capable of. Just goes to show that if someone REALLY wants to win, there's no way any algorithm can stop them.
The guy who I mentioned previously who was listed as a D despite his top three results all being mid-C class; so after posting about him on the Zwift forums (didn't mention any names, just flagged up that there might be a calculation bug in ZP), the admins took a look and manually promoted him to C. They also retrospectively DQ'd him from my race, meaning I now have the win - wasn't expecting them to do that, but cool that they did.
So I went back onto ZwiftPower today to take a look at his profile and saw that he's raced precisely once since then and finished with the fastest time in a B race, averaging over 4 w/kg for 20 mins, which means in a matter of two days, he's gone from "D almost C", to C and now to "B almost A"! Possibly realising he's been rumbled, he's now decided to race at what was his correct pace all along.
And yet for the whole month of August he's been entering a D race almost every day, winning them all of course, while making it look like he was racing at his limit and so avoiding the two (possibly three) levels of promotion that he was capable of. Just goes to show that if someone REALLY wants to win, there's no way any algorithm can stop them.
What a sad little man entering and winning D races when he's a top B racer. Must have a big self confidence problem. Or just be a prize bell end.
Good work calling him out
So do I... it does leave us open to being called the derogatory term for ladies though but I'm sure we've all been called worse...
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
The funny thing is that I didn't even need to call him out. I've seen lots of threads about "cheaters" on the Zwift Forums get deleted by overzealous admins because names are mentioned, so I made sure that I didn't say his name or use a screenshot that had any of his details in.What a sad little man entering and winning D races when he's a top B racer. Must have a big self confidence problem. Or just be a prize bell end.
Good work calling him out
Only when I was told to report it to the admin team by e-mail did I send them a link to his profile. Their e-mail back to me said that they had acknowledged the issue but because it involved others, they wouldn't be able to tell me the result of the outcome due to privacy concerns, but that they would handle it (which is the only reason I went back to double check his profile later to make sure it was actioned).
