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[Del C]

Thanks I’ve been invited and accepted just wondered what the procedure was how to join and where the start gun goes off

You get transported to the roadside near the start of the course @bridgy has selected. It’s Road to Ruins tomorrow.

Countdown and start is the same as for a race.

Last time we rode for about a minute without racing to the start of a Strava segment that we used for timing, but we knew where the start was. It was a start/finish arch and we started racing as we reached it.

Don’t know what segment is being used tomorrow or where it starts but it should be a similar approach.

@bridgy should be able to confirm

 

[<Tommy>]

I knew you would bite .

It is my civic duty to try and keep all your excuses in check after all.

I won’t be on again until lunchtime. By which point I can only assume at least half of you will have picked up life threatening sniffles, toe nail related injuries, and extensive fatigue from climbing the dizzy heights of the office stairs!

 

[berty bassett]

i could have bled out ! i could have gone on about it but rallied on - a bit like the black knight in monty python

 

[Freelanderuk]

@Freelanderuk .
I rode into Louth this morning on the Bkool video. I waved at every rider going the other way . I hope one of them was you. Our thoughts and sympathies are with you tomorrow.

I have just seen that on Strava and left a comment it’s a nice area to ride
Thank you

 

[berty bassett]

I won’t be on again until lunchtime

xbox or playstation today ?

 

[Whorty]

It is my civic duty to try and keep all your excuses in check after all.

I won’t be on again until lunchtime. By which point I can only assume at least half of you will have picked up life threatening sniffles, toe nail related injuries, and extensive fatigue from climbing the dizzy heights of the office stairs!

Taking the van for mot today. Could be stressful so may have an impact on my performance tonight

 

[Norry1]

You get transported to the roadside near the start of the course @bridgy has selected. It’s Road to Ruins tomorrow.

Countdown and start is the same as for a race.

Last time we rode for about a minute without racing to the start of a Strava segment that we used for timing, but we knew where the start was. It was a start/finish arch and we started racing as we reached it.

Don’t know what segment is being used tomorrow or where it starts but it should be a similar approach.

@bridgy should be able to confirm

@bert1971 I believe the segment we are using is https://www.strava.com/segments/16404154. Here is a description by Zwift Insider https://zwiftinsider.com/road-to-ruins/

Zwift should get you to the start like a race. All riders in the meetup have green text so you can spot them. There is a countdown, then a start. We are scoring the "race" by taking the segment time for the above segment. You can draft etc all you want so suggest you don't have a TT bike. See you there

 

[mjd1988]

Article on zwiftinsider about new "drop shop" launching today and a gplama video (but too late for work to read it!)

 

[Whorty]

@bert1971 I believe the segment we are using is https://www.strava.com/segments/16404154. Here is a description by Zwift Insider https://zwiftinsider.com/road-to-ruins/

Zwift should get you to the start like a race. All riders in the meetup have green text so you can spot them. There is a countdown, then a start. We are scoring the "race" by taking the segment time for the above segment. You can draft etc all you want so suggest you don't have a TT bike. See you there

Could be interesting tonight and a challenge for @CXRAndy to stay away from us this week. With you, me, Brendan, possibly @Monte , Michael, Del, possible Chris and Bob all in, and all currently posting similar times, I can see one or 2 groups forming. Get dropped from a group and it could be hard to get back on, but stay in the group and it will move fast.

I have a loose eyelash that could impair performance tonight, so I hope you lot don't mind doing the work and I'll sit in there and add moral support

 

[bobinski]

It is my civic duty to try and keep all your excuses in check after all.

I won’t be on again until lunchtime. By which point I can only assume at least half of you will have picked up life threatening sniffles, toe nail related injuries, and extensive fatigue from climbing the dizzy heights of the office stairs!

Did you get your pedals off?

 

[Whorty]

Sorry for this been out of touch for a few weeks. What’s the procedure tomorrow just log on somewhere and ride and will I then get prompted to the meet-up or do you automatically get taken there? Once there what’s the start do we roll out together for a bit then casually not race for a lap 2 laps??
Cheers

Assuming the same as last week. We all sit in our zwift virtual turbo trainers on the side of the road waiting for the clock to count down. We roll to the start/finish banner as a group (although some cheekily shot off last week, but we'll ignore that for now ), then when you go through the start/finish banner the race starts. As we're using the official Zwift Strava segment, and this starts at the banner then any advantage up until then won't count anyway.

After that it;s every man for himself. Do we draft as a team? Do we make a break and try to draft behind a neutral Zwift rider? Tactics will be all tonight. Gonna be fun fun fun

 

[Norry1]

Did you get your pedals off?

Is that a sexually oriented remark?

 

[bobinski]

Is that a sexually oriented remark?

You have spending too much time in London

 

[berty bassett]

You have spending too much time in London

Huh you can’t even go toilet without someone wanting to interfere with you - no wonder no one smiles there

 

[JuhaL]

New update from Zwift. Now you can customize more your frames and wheel sets. You can spend drops to buy more frames and wheel sets to your "garage".

edit. if you have zero drops then connect your trainer to Zwift, that seems to update drops. Thats how it worked in my case.