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I usually warm up for a while before any event, pick any route in any world. Exactly a half hour before the event starts a pop up will appear on the bottom left that says “join event”, you can join at any time right up till the start. When you join event, you will either be in the start pens or on the side of road on a virtual trainer. A countdown clock will be on the top right with the riders listed on the sidebar. When the clock times out it’s on!
I will pick up lightly used Kickr v4 tomorrow. The seller also has climber accessory. Trainer only is $900. Or $1300 with climber. Is the climber worth?
/ don’t want to open new thread, sorry about the thread drift.
Climb seems like a cool idea, but I don't know if it is $400 worth of cool.
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Piece in bold is what I was missing. All set now. ThxQuote:
Originally Posted by Iowagriz
I work till 6, but if I can get out quick and bust it home I’ll jump in for a little bit. Thanks for putting this together.
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Event is set up to accept late riders, as long as we are still riding, you can join in mid pack.
8:00 is too late for me y’all. I’m in bed and reading by 8:30. Maybe next time we could make it more east coast friendly. I’m out.
Plus it’s like 60* right now, riding in shorts!
Fuck, just seeing this. Did a hard leg day this morning - bad timing. However, I might actually be able to make it tonight. If so, I might just ride through the first lap and then watch you fuckers go after each other.
Was going to try to make the 8pm ride but it’s right smack in the middle of putting-kids-to-bed-o’clock. Regrettably, 7pm (EST) on weeknights is the latest I can join a ride.
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7pm east coast for me also.
I'll give er' a go tonight! I'm probably not qualified to keep up on lap 3, so don't be offended if I disappear :).
Me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by justcuz
I will try to keep it together for a few laps.
Less than 2.0 for a lap, less than 2.5 for a lap, and then see who has some legs/lungs.
enjoy the ride all. I'm also on kid duty at night so kind of limited to early morning rides only on weekdays (and most weekends)
Shit, I got dropped by the GF. She’s doing a Zwift race right now, we use the same rig. Ride on everyone
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Dudes that was fun and a heck of a finish. Thought my heart was going to explode. Peter is a beast. Once he put the coals to it he was long gone. Good pack of us racing for second.
Thanks Dee for the setup!
The first ever TGR Zwift meetup was a success!
8 riders! (in no special order)
Dee Hubbs (DH)
jamal (PL)
Whiteroom_Gaurdian (TA)
justcuz (KR)
huckbucket (PMJ)
Merlyn (SS)
Yanos (AKC)
EWG (FT)
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We all stayed to together for 2.75 laps (40-45 mins), and then in the last 4km to the finish line, showed us all who had the legs.
I'll set one up for next week. I'll try for an earlier start time for the East Coasters, but I don't want to cannibalize the riders we already have for the possibility of other riders.
I'll adjust the length by -900m so we finish at the banner (27.2km). And I'll try to name it TGR meetup and not my name.
Give me feedback on route, length, time of day.
RIDE ON!
Thanks everyone. Peter just disappeared. Literally. He was gone before the finish I think. I wondered if we were gonna get lapped by him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
I just didnt want to put all the names out there, as some are guys real names, may not want em here on TGR.
Ahhh ... gotcha. Will remove.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
I'll put initials beside TGR names in my post above with the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Really like that route. The climb is just short enough and everything else rolls. I vote for 4 laps (~60 mins). 2.5 w/kg right up to the bridge before the climb on the last lap and then free for all is great.
sorry I had another meetup to make and ours didn't quite finish in time. Fun time! I was a little worried there'd only be like 2-3 people but that was a good turnout.
And I'm not too worried about my real name, it's not hard to find if someone wanted to as I've already posted my zwift profile in here, strava rides, etc.
I'm pretty sure you still would have smoked the rest of us!Quote:
Originally Posted by jamal
Thanks DH for putting together the meetup. That was solid. I didn't plan on taggin along for the third lap, since i'm justing getting over this sickness, but got suckered in.
I haven't done a small meet up in Zwift, that was damn cool. I like the time, distance and course. Perfect for a Tuesday.
The time sucks! Make it earlier please! Looks like a fun time was had by all. Bummed I missed out.
Yeah it was super fun. My power graph looked like a Christmas painting (red green red green) as I’m getting used to riding in groups on zwift but it was cool.
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That was my first meetup - good times.
At the start of the third lap I was thinking I’d maybe be able to hang near the front until the finish but after the hill you guys were gone. Nice work!
I know, SFJ...I did that.
So after years of being dumb I've decided to get smart. I like the idea of a direct drive trainer but not too keen on having to take the wheel off, plus my bike has a 10 speed cassette and from what I've seen the direct drives are 11 so I'd have to swap it out. Not a huge deal but not really what I want to do so I'm thinking a wheel on wheel is my best option. Looking at the Wahoo Snap or Kurt Road Machine. My dumb trainer is a Road Machine and it's fine but I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of the Rock and Roll Kurt...seems like the motion aspect would make things more interesting.
Any suggestions from the collective on these or others?
If anybody's got a used smart they want to unload I might be interested.
I love it! I couldn't swing last nights ride but I'll try for the next.
I have the Kurt Kinetic R1 Direct Drive. I love the side to side motion. I think it really helps me adjust my position on my saddle, and prevent me from getting sore on long rides. The Kurt Kinetic software is great, no signal drops, always connects to Zwift right away, I calibrate it once a week (just for shits and giggles) and the numbers are almost always exactly the same. I have a crank based power meter on my outside bike that I should try swapping over to my inside bike, just to see how the numbers line up.
The freehub on direct drive trainers also accepts 10 speed cassettes. You can currently buy a 10 speed shimano cassette online for around $40.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garth Bimble
GB - I've got a couple of 10-sp cassettes collecting dust. Yours for shipping.Quote:
Originally Posted by scharny
Thanks...I've got one too, perhaps the DD option is something I should reconsider if there's that much difference between the two.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Actually a couple DD trainers on my local CL. I need to make the swap. My Kurt Road Machine works ok, but it's still a dumb trainer pretending to be a smart trainer so it's not actually accurate and possibly even an advantage for racing?
So you're saying I would have outsprinted you last night? :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
Very real possibility. I have heard from some people that trainers that calculate watts are not accurate and not even allowed in "real" zwift races.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
kidding of course. Yeah ... get the smart trainer. It'll change the experience dramatically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
Dude you already know the only place to get ‘real’ results is on Zwift Power. Your setup won’t even be recognized on ZP, get a smart trainer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
Fellas, very fun last night. As an out-of-biking-shape slacker who had just done a hard leg workout yesterday morning I was planning to do a lap to say hi and then bail. Was too much fun to leave, so I bounced around trying to figure out how to stay with the group the whole time. Never rode in a group before on zwift. In fact, never rode without the erg on. As an ex real world racer I have some habits I need to unlearn, like when we got over the climb that first lap I started coasting on the downhill only to see you bastards disappear (no coasting in zwift, apparently, even on downhills) then spent 2 miles chasing back, laughing and cursing my stupidity the whole time. That happened to someone else the next lap I think.
Then I decided I would just drop out on the last climb, but Yanos (I think) rode by as I went to get off, so I hopped back on and rode home with him. Pretty damn fine effort on his part for the first ride back after covid (if I've kept my riders straight.) I clearly have a lot to learn and did way too much yoyoing, but was super fun. Thanks all. Thanks for not sticking anything in my spokes.