Zwift Chat

[BurningLegs]

Completely off topic, but I've just had an email from my hotel loyalty card saying someone rang them and changed the email address associated wit my account. Since then I'm getting 4-5 emails a minute from various subscriptions being set up on my email.

Anyone experienced anything like this and any suggestions?

Feel free to send me a PM - I lead cyber security for a manufacturing company.

First thing I would suggest is to change your password on all email and finance/purchasing accounts and setup something called MFA (Google call it 2FA). Definitely do eBay, Paypal, and Amazon.
Second, check you don't have malware on your computer. Just use your normal anti-virus but make sure it is up to date.
Then contact your banks and tell them what's been going on.
Do all of the above ASAP.

This is often the result of something called "credential stuffing" where bad guys take some usernames/passwords that have been leaked online and try to use them on lots of different websites/services. Almost everyone uses the same password for at least two services, so if your username for LinkedIn is abc@123.com and password is "EasyPassword1" then the chances are that username/password combo could work at GMail, Yahoo! mail, other social accounts, Netfliex, etc etc

A great resource I would encourage everyone to use is this website, which shows you how many times your personal information is known to have been lost and is publicly available - https://haveibeenpwned.com - you enter your email address and then it confirms whether personal info related to that email address has ever been lost, and what was the source of the disclosure. Most people have been effected at this is the starting point for most attackers - take the usernames/passwords that have been lost and see if there are any services on the internet using that combination of username/password.

It is unlikely the attackers will gain access to your bank accounts this way, but inform your bank anyway. They'll probably ask you to change your password.

 

[Whorty]

Well BRVR does allow riding against live competitors now, OK unlike BKool you don't see a mark on the video showing where your opponents are, but they are displayed in the mini map of the course ... plus you also get the time gaps on the LHS. ... There is no drafting either, so yo all get to feel the burn. Social wise, yeah not a lot of riders, although you/we can always, post here to say I'm riding X course on BRVR if anyone wants to join me, and use Discord ... BRVR also lists events and challenges taking place, so you can join those and ride together ... Like Liege - Bastogne - Liege this week ... which IIRC were actually free, because of lock down

The BKool riders - Remember them?? - are looking at riding "Socially" on BRVR, although my suggestion of the Stelvio was met with an emphatic NOOOOOOO!

I like BRVR and one of the main reasons for stopping using it was the gearing on my bike. I did really like the challenge of going up some of the classic climbs that I may never get to see in real life.

 

[CXRAndy]

Now, if you had said Polish vodka...

Too late, wagon left you miles ago

 

[Brusgaard]

The Zsun chaingang is not a race but a group ride for Zsun riders-all 9 of them that day-where the idea is you hold close to 4w for an hour, as a group. Not unknown for someone to play with their weight for that ride in order to stay with the group.

Looks like you have way too much time on your hands

Okay, so a closed/private race/ride/whatever that shows up on ZP?

Does these affect your ZP ranking, or are you free to play around with your height/weight as you see fit for that ride?

 

[Norry1]

I haven't seen it anywhere else.

It's been working well for our Virtual Club Run. We've had 25-30 for each of our rides and it works as you say.

This week we used the new feature that allows you to plan a Meet Up in any world. I chose Yorkshire as it wasn't one of the 3 scheduled worlds.

We had a really good ride. Most of us were in the same kit and with fewer riders on the road, visually it felt as near as it could be to riding a club run. Using Discord as well made it a really good 90 minutes on the bike.

I've now had people suggesting we include a virtual cafe stop, so we're going for that as well next Saturday!

Yep, my club are doing that as well and although I haven't joined in yet - it looks like it is going well.

 

[Norry1]

Feel free to send me a PM - I lead cyber security for a manufacturing company.

First thing I would suggest is to change your password on all email and finance/purchasing accounts and setup something called MFA (Google call it 2FA). Definitely do eBay, Paypal, and Amazon.
Second, check you don't have malware on your computer. Just use your normal anti-virus but make sure it is up to date.
Then contact your banks and tell them what's been going on.
Do all of the above ASAP.

This is often the result of something called "credential stuffing" where bad guys take some usernames/passwords that have been leaked online and try to use them on lots of different websites/services. Almost everyone uses the same password for at least two services, so if your username for LinkedIn is abc@123.com and password is "EasyPassword1" then the chances are that username/password combo could work at GMail, Yahoo! mail, other social accounts, Netfliex, etc etc

A great resource I would encourage everyone to use is this website, which shows you how many times your personal information is known to have been lost and is publicly available - https://haveibeenpwned.com - you enter your email address and then it confirms whether personal info related to that email address has ever been lost, and what was the source of the disclosure. Most people have been effected at this is the starting point for most attackers - take the usernames/passwords that have been lost and see if there are any services on the internet using that combination of username/password.

It is unlikely the attackers will gain access to your bank accounts this way, but inform your bank anyway. They'll probably ask you to change your password.

Nick that is very helpful and a kind offer. I may well take you up on it.

 

[<Tommy>]

Anyways, it was Tommy who again brought up the weight doping topic, so I just wanted to give him a heads up on his new team mates, so he doesn't offend someone later on. I just picked this rider as I remembered seeing his name in my feed because of your meet up last night.

Steen... not even sure why I’m responding to these silly comments... But it’s fairly obvious what the motive for your original comment was...

I joined a conversation about ethics that was already happening. If I had taken the information you had given the group and accused someone of weight doping it may well have caused offence. Luckily I’m not as quick to jump to conclusions as you seem to be.

 

[<Tommy>]

I can't wait to get the tron bike unlocked so I can stop worrying about equipment choice for almost all races! Hopefully I will be able to live with the lack of visible indication of drafting though...

How much more climbing do you have to do? It’s been a godsend to me being so far from the level needed to buy a faster frame. My advice would be maybe don’t chop and change between frames once you have it. Then you kind of forget about the draft thing.

 

[BurningLegs]

How much more climbing do you have to do? It’s been a godsend to me being so far from the level needed to buy a faster frame. My advice would be maybe don’t chop and change between frames once you have it. Then you kind of forget about the draft thing.

Only about 2500M to go

For a while I was doing lots of workouts up the alpe, but I've backed off that now the weather has improved and tend to one race, one social ride, and one outdoor ride a week now.

Sounds like we are in the same boat when it comes to frame options - I'm level 25 now so a while to wait for an improved frame. The tron will be faster on most routes (just pure climbing where I think it's slower but I don't tend to equip the lightest equipment anyway), and I can "set and forget".

 

[CXRAndy]

Cycling buddy has just completed the Zwift Everest challenge.

He climbed the Alpe 9 times, 30,000ft 136miles

He was going great guns for 6 straight climbs all within a minute for time at 1hr9 per ascent, then boom, the enormity of the effort started to take its toll. He laid down for 30 mins to recover, ate, drank and knocked off the other 3 climbs.

 

[bobinski]

Okay, so a closed/private race/ride/whatever that shows up on ZP?

Does these affect your ZP ranking, or are you free to play around with your height/weight as you see fit for that ride?

Steen, Its a group ride. I have said it already mate. Not a race.
I can't answer your other questions because i don't run ZP -fortunately.

 

[Brusgaard]

Steen, Its a group ride. I have said it already mate. Not a race.
I can't answer your other questions because i don't run ZP -fortunately.

Yes, I get it is a group ride, but can you setup such a ride and only allow certain people to ride it, i.e. like a password protected race/ride on BKOOL?

As far as I know, every event has to go through Zwift's Events team, unless it is a meet up, which isn't really a closed race as other riders are seen (and draftable).

So, if this is a feature, why haven't we used it instead of the CycleChat meet ups?

 

[Norry1]

I couldn't decide which set up to go for tonight so I have selected the Tron - in Green of course

 

[bridgy]

Okay, so a closed/private race/ride/whatever that shows up on ZP?

Does these affect your ZP ranking, or are you free to play around with your height/weight as you see fit for that ride?

Yes, a group ride with only 9 people in it, not a race as I said before - its on Zwiftpower and all that info is clear for you to see.

Group rides as well as races do now affect your race category in ZP but this is a new thing and wasn't the case when the ride in question took place. Even if it was in place at the time the only effect it would have had would be to increase his w/kg average and potentially put him UP a category - kind of the opposite of sandbagging

 

[Randyberlin]

Completely off topic, but I've just had an email from my hotel loyalty card saying someone rang them and changed the email address associated wit my account. Since then I'm getting 4-5 emails a minute from various subscriptions being set up on my email.

Anyone experienced anything like this and any suggestions?

Which hotel chain? I belong to 3 or 4 but generally ignore the emails.