Zwift Chat

[JuhaL]

Totally agree - although I'm sure that they'll milk the 2 cash cows for now with very little investment in them. But you're right, I also can't see them keeping all 3 platforms running long term, makes no logical sense.

I have a feeling that everyone are waiting silently what and when it's something gonna happen on that frontier.

 

[Peter Salt]

My ancient laptop takes about 10 minutes to load up Zwift and has been suffering regular stutters and dropouts when there are too many other riders on-screen, so I doubt it will have the processing power to cope with Zwift Plus. I’m not even going to bother, if it’s not offering anything other than Zwift with pretty pictures.

You may find out it's the other way around. Zwift video just loads the video and how well that works is mostly dependant on your Internet bandwidth - not GPU/CPU/RAM.

My thinking is that as Zwift own all three, Fulgaz is on life support and if Zwift gets close to Rouvy in rides then that will follow suit.
Why would one company have three similar products?

Same reason why you go to B&Q and find MacAllister, Magnusson, and Erbauer tools next to each other - all brands owned by one company... who also owns B&Q itself... And then leave B&Q and go into Screwfix which is usually right next to it - which is also owned by the very same company.

 

[Pblakeney]

Same reason why you go to B&Q and find MacAllister, Magnusson, and Erbauer tools next to each other - all brands owned by one company... who also owns B&Q itself... And then leave B&Q and go into Screwfix which is usually right next to it - which is also owned by the very same company.

We'll see. Rouvy was looking for an excuse to get rid of Fulgaz, and that was before the Zwift buyout.
Time will tell.

 

[bobinski]

Anyone else on a Kickr bike or climb? I discovered on the Galibier video that if you free ride start an incline at 100% "realism", so the bike matches the incline, you can then set the watts lock and retain the bikes incline. You can then adjust watts up and down in intensity. The bike stays at the incline/gradient at which the watts lock was set so doesnt move as gradient varies but apart from that Its great. You get the benefit of greater hamstring and glute engagement which all helps when training fro riding up mountains.

 

[steverob]

It's a Strava thing, not a Zwift thing, but it gave me a laugh so I thought I'd post it on here.

Regularly I get recommended by Strava to follow other accounts either because we have followers in common, I've ridden with them before or they're a fan favourite. But today I got a new type of recommendation:

Yes Strava, we definitely do. Him at the top of them, me at the bottom!

 

[mjd1988]

These zwift plus Easter eggs are getting worse