I'm trying to get out of a suprise conference call so I can ride tonight. We shall see...
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I'm trying to get out of a suprise conference call so I can ride tonight. We shall see...
So. Are we doing 4 laps tonight? 3 laps at group ride tempo, then the 4th we turn it on?
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Originally Posted by Doughnuts01
3 laps, first 2.5 laps group, feel free to afterburner on last climb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
I left it at 3 laps, 27.2 kms (16.9miles). I adjusted it so it finishes at the UCI lap arch (I hope). I was use to the length from the race starting pen, but we just start on the side of the road, but with a short run in to the lap arch. Lets see if my math is right this week?Quote:
Originally Posted by Doughnuts01
Let's keep it at 3 laps for another week (Tues and Thurs) to get the new joiners comfortable and feel like they can hang the whole time. Also I was trying to keep it under 1 hr. (45-50 minutes of racing with a few minutes of warm up).
So does the feather make it easier to climb? Maybe I should use that next time. Are the feather and the van considered cheating though?
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Great ride again!
10 of us tonight!
Dee Hubbs
jamal
Doughnuts01 New
wendigo New
justcuz
Huckbucket
Meryln
E.W.G.
VTskibum New
grmountainman New
I’m trying not to post real names, but I’ll PM you a list of TGR vs Zwift names of you want.
It’s not cheating, we all get the opportunity to get the same Power Ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by EWG
They have a few Power Ups in this weeks Zwift World Championships.
Draft Boost (van): increases the draft effect you are experiencing by 50% for 30 seconds. In a double draft event, this powerup will give you 3x the standard draft effect.
Use at higher speeds (flats and descents) when you are already drafting off another rider (since this powerup only helps when you are drafting.)
Aero Boost (helmet): makes you more aerodynamic (reduces your CdA by 25%) for 15 seconds.
Use at higher speeds (flats and descents), especially when no draft is available (although it is still useful when drafting.)
Burrito: turns off draft effect for riders within a 2.5m radius for 10 seconds. Event-only.
Use when attacking off the front so opponents have to work harder to follow you, or use it in the group to make everyone work harder for a bit.
Cloaking (ghost): makes you invisible to other riders for 10 seconds. Event-only.
Use when you want to get away from one or more riders. Deploy then hammer, in hopes that you will create enough of a gap that your opponents can’t grab your wheel.
Steamroller: reduces Crr for 30 seconds so you roll as fast as a road tire on pavement regardless of wheels or road surface. Event-only.
If you’re on a road bike, use this when you hit a dirt patch. (It also provides an advantage on cobbles, broke, ice/snow, etc.) If you’re on a mountain bike in the jungle, use this when you hit the wooden bridges or the hard-packed dirt at the bottom of the Jungle Circuit.
Anvil: makes your heavier for 30 seconds, so you can descend faster. Event-only.
Use this on downhills. Pair it with a supertuck to go extra fast with zero effort!
damn. That was good fun
Dee thank you for the info. That is super helpful.
Edit: Ok, I just used my sweat points to upgrade from the base wheels and frame. Learning.
Mike was just gone. Nice man!
Pete hung on my wheel until 100 yards from the top of the climb and then just put it in another gear and walked away. 600 watts was a wee bit too much for me. :rolleyes2
Seriously impressive boys. Fun time. Nice job everyone. Thanks again Dee
Nice work gents. Sad to have missed out. Next week.
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That was fun, had a feather for the climb and then just buried it to the finish. Saw you two chasing back, especially on that downhill section. While I was just counting the k to go. No racing w COVID for me this year, so gotta light those matches when they present themselves.
Not sure I’ll be able to make all of them, w/ 8pm start.
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Thanks for organizing, was definitely a sweat fest for me and a challenge to hang in. That 8% hill......
Good reason to jump on the bike so glad to have the opportunity 👍
Nice guys! Couldn't make it tonight unfortunately, but I should be there on Thursday!
Almost done with the garage/zwift remodel. Hope to be there next week.
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Post your setups. I'm in the basement.
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Nice pain cave!
I present to you the Soul Crusher.
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Messy basement pain cave/wind tunnel/bike workshop. I get hot, both fans are on remote though box fan only comes on once really get going.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cc44071829.jpg
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Heh, I'm an idiot who just needs to pick one, since I quit this ride and then didn't get into the next one on time. Zwift not giving me the "join meetup" button didn't help either.
This but picture my laptop on the bench
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Made this trainer base out of a little square of mdf with some adjustable feet because the floor is a little uneven there
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Then added a clamp and weights to hold the trainer down. Then needed to add another couple clamps, which now i should re-do with one on each corner. The stupid legs on that aren't centered over the bike so it's easier to pick the left legs up.
I have a old caad frame hanging up, been thinking about making a trainer bike. Would be nice to not be cranking on the fancy supersix in a trainer.
I had trouble getting into the event tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamal
I had to close Zwift, go all the way out, log back in before it prompted me to join event.
I read on some of the forums that this is common.
As my mother used to say .... "beware the Zwifter that puts weights on his trainer base"Quote:
Originally Posted by jamal
First ever UCI indoor Worlds this morning check it out on the Zwift channel on YouTube or FloSports, starting shortly!
Watopia Hilly Reverse course.
Dope!Quote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
I'm so conflicted on giving a rainbow jersey for Zwift. This is one of those things that could either be a joke in 20yrs or grow into a huge discipline in of itself.
Guess they can only wear the Rainbow stripes indoors per the rules too right?
What a time to be alive has never been more true in 2020.
Well, they give a rainbow out for singlespeed cyclocross, so, what the hell, rainbows for everybody! As long as the indoor winners get the tattoo on their forehead I have no issue with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by VTskibum
Zwift set up:
Spare bedroom is used for pain cave, wattage cottage etc. There is room for mine and Mrs. Hubbs bikes. I'm on Kurt Kentic R1 direct drive, Wahoo Kickr Smart trainer on backorder for her.
Bike is dedicated trainer built Specialized Roubaix with Di2 shifters.
Zwift run off of AppleTV for solo rides, or one on Apple TV and one off of MacBook Pro to HDMI cable if we are riding an event together. (seldom)
One 42" TV Permanently mounted on wall/built in, one 42" TV sitting on the desk (borrowed from Garage) if I want to watch a movie or sports for long rides.
Open window behind me with a fan blowing in cold air, I can reach this fan with my hands. Box fan in front of me for air blowing at me, I have this fan on a wifi remote plug if I want to turn it off or on during a ride.
iPhone is bar mounted for Zwift Companion App or fan remote, or TGR threads. Apple TV remote hangs off the bars, TV Remotes sit on bed beside me, bedside table just behind me for drinks/nutrition, Kleenex to blow my nose.
Rubber mat that rolls up and also collects all sweat and drips and tears.
Other must haves are hand towel, sweatbands for head, and wrists.
View of the room:
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View from behind the bike:
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The room quickly cleans up nice for guests to stay:
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And some time I get spectators, until I start yelling at the screen....
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Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning forever to get a headband. Just ordered.
Also, nice setup. And figureskating? :nonono2:
Not just figure skating, but Pairs Figure Skating ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Ha, I turned on the TVs for a photo op, this happened to be on the Olympic Channel.
Next you're going to complain the bed spread was not even?
My lovely wife and I have always been gym-goers - me maybe weekly, her close to daily. Despite her incessant outdoor riding and skate skiing she still spun a lot at the gym and did weight classes. So when Covid hit we decide to turn the garage into a gym, Figured out it'd be about an 18 month payback - so break-even is early next summer. It's awesome. Will never have a gym membership again, plus our late teenage year kids use it all the time now, so that's awesome too. My 16yo daughter is getting into zwift too which is cool. Very insulated, but it gets a little cold in the winter but never past 48 or so which is quite pleasant for riding. Kinda hot in the summer however.
About 10 years ago I hurt my achilles, and oddly biking was excruciating while running didn't hurt at all. Got out of the biking habit - it had filled up with an enormous amount of performance pressure from my older race days, and it felt good to leave that behind. This year of Covid is getting me back on the bike, so thanks for bearing with my shit watt levels on these group rides. Feels like I'll never get back into bike shape, but the group rides are helping.
Finally, as I got older, I found that lifting really really helps with skiing, soccer, biking etc. I'm certainly no body builder, but boy does my body feel better if I do routine maintenance.
Anyway, first pic is the zwift setup side of the garage with tv/fan/laptop/etc, second pick is the rest fof the gym with a sporting goods store behind it that our family of 4 apparently needs to support our habits. You can't even see the skateboard rack with literally 20 damn boards on it or the wheelset rack above the workbench, so it's even worse than it appears.
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Sweet setup.
Owns two Serottas. Definitely lives upstate. And you don't know Bunny?
Using my old Trek 5200 as my trainer bike. Tacx Neo 2T. Old house with a nice full size basement leading into the garage.
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We have our trainer set up in the spare room that’s still the dumping ground for things we haven’t unpacked. I need to get a matt. The front wheel is on a lazy Suzan for the mountain bike tracks in Zwift.
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Bunny is my alias.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
Just kidding. Seriously JUST KIDDING.
One Serotta. The other one on the trainer is a Independent Fabrication, which is even more NE. I am, however, not East Coast.
While we are on that topic, what the hell is up with all the Canadians in this thread? Half the people on the group rides are throwing up the maple leaf. Is it cause they have snow on the ground 10 months out of the year?
^^ Indy Fab is sweet, always wanted a Mountain frame from them. Rode/raced against Harlan Price who was a team rider early/mid 2000s.
Maybe like tourists in Europe, they’re wearing a Canadian Flag so people will be nice to them, instead of thinking they’re American?Quote:
Originally Posted by EWG
The Zwift Companion App from the Canadian iTunes Store has a button for “Ride On” as well as “Sorry” and “Exclude me please”
"You want us to slow down so you can catch back up, eh?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
"We dropped the hoser." "Yeah, he didn't get'r done."
Can any of you nuts explain this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/s...vpuJagYaTBCYgU
Sorry if this is long, but I kinda work in this field and I’ve read a lot about of different articles about these situations, and find it interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
The ESport Cycling World Championships were suppose to be held today in a stadium with fans and all the riders in the same spot competing. With COVID they did it at each of the riders homes or studio etc.
UCI sent the same brand model smart trainer to all athletes to be equal and fair. Weigh ins and height measurements are done over Skype to ensure it’s accurate. A rider needs a second power meter source recorded by a secondary device to ensure they have not manipulating their smart trainer to read heigh. Like power meter pedals recorded with a Garmin, Zwift them overlay the 2 files to ensure the power files are the same. With all of this the racing should be fair.
Zwift will also look your Zwift history, and look at your power averages and see if anything looks funny.
As for the British guy who was stripped of his national title. His buddy wrote code and tricked Zwift into thinking he rode 50,000m and thus he got the “Tron” bike which is 1.3% faster than other bikes. He was disqualified for manipulating data.
As for the the last 2 girls in the article. The first one didn’t have a independent 2nd power meter file, sent one from a different ride in, and when Zwift didn’t accept it, she copied the power file from her smart trainer and loaded it into her bike computer and named it “crank power meter” and tried to submit it as valid. Zwift disqualified and sanctioned her for manipulating data.
The second girl paired her crank power meter to Zwift (instead of smart trainer) and raced, and then submitted her “independent” power file, which turned out to be exact same as the original file, again when asked for the correct file they manipulated a file to try to trick Zwift.
Today World Championships paid out $28,000 and the sanctioned Races have rules, and you can’t break the rules or try to fake the results.
These 2 girls cried innocent, but they had submitted files that had been manipulated, it would be like a drug test, and not peeing, but submitting someone else’s pee, or your own pee from “another time”. These girls are on a professional cycling team, with a Coach, Manager, Sport Director, and should have know better.
The original plan for these races was going to be in a stadium with DJs and crowds and a fun atmosphere, but with COVID they have to be at the athletes home. They are trying to do everything they can to ensure they are fair and accurate, and they are calling out the early cheaters.
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My humble bachelor pad living room set up. Scoot it out of the way for foam rolling and watching The Mandalorian. New Mtn Gazette on coffee table for street cred.
This bike is now dedicated trainer bike for the winter. Trainer is Kickr Core.
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I love seeing all the setups. Good to know where the suffering is happening. Very cool.