Zwift Chat

[CXRAndy]

Well done CCC! That dirt climb at the end is horrible isn't it, did many go for the bike change?
Our league looks competitive, 16 teams completed the race and the winner also won the sprint with over 15 w/kg for 15 seconds.

Wow, what was his weight Michael?

I changed and Alex changed I think. I setup my Canyon Grail with 35mm tyres prior to the race. If you check my video at 41.50 it shows standard wheels and tyres- so a complete waste of time, no benefit. I wont chose that bike again instead just go straight with MTB, at least it auto selects tyres

 

[Norry1]

I changed to the Specialized Crux. Not watched my vid back but it seemed to work well.

 

[mjd1988]

Wow, what was his weight Michael?

I changed and Alex changed I think. I setup my Canyon Grail with 35mm tyres prior to the race. If you check my video at 41.50 it shows standard wheels and tyres- so a complete waste of time, no benefit. I wont chose that bike again instead just go straight with MTB, at least it auto selects tyres

77kg so nearly 1200 watts.

 

[CXRAndy]

77kg so nearly 1200 watts.

Carl territory

 

[bridgy]

Wow, what was his weight Michael?

I changed and Alex changed I think. I setup my Canyon Grail with 35mm tyres prior to the race. If you check my video at 41.50 it shows standard wheels and tyres- so a complete waste of time, no benefit. I wont chose that bike again instead just go straight with MTB, at least it auto selects tyres

You can't choose tyres just wheelsets which include whatever tyres they're set up with (maybe that's what you meant but just clarifying?). What did you pre-select for the gravel bike beforehand?

 

[CXRAndy]

You can't choose tyres just wheelsets which include whatever tyres they're set up with (maybe that's what you meant but just clarifying?). What did you pre-select for the gravel bike beforehand?

The Cadx 35mm- supposedly the fastest gravel wheelset. They're deep aero rimmed. But the wheelset loaded were just standard, some glitch has occurred

 

[alex_cycles]

The Cadx 35mm- supposedly the fastest gravel wheelset. They're deep aero rimmed. But the wheelset loaded were just standard, some glitch has occurred

Was that in-game or in the garage you saw that? There was a bug at one point where the garage showed the wheels incorrectly on gravel swaps.

I made a proper bollox of my swap. Selected the Canyon Speedmax by mistake instead of Canyon Grail. Zwift said "sod off" and gave me the Zwift aero instead (cheers mate!) . Didn't notice. Started riding and thought "that doesn't look right", so had to go back and do it properly. Glad I did though as Carl and I got 2nd and 3rd FTS through gravel swaps.

Although, oddly enough, even though Carl also changed, I saw him as still riding his Tron.

View: https://youtu.be/hX5j7bCHicE

 

[bridgy]

The Cadx 35mm- supposedly the fastest gravel wheelset. They're deep aero rimmed. But the wheelset loaded were just standard, some glitch has occurred

I just watched that part of your video - not a glitch, you accidentally selected the Canyon Aeroad not the grail! So it would have been fitted with standard road wheelset. Slower setup than sticking with the Tron up there unfortunately - oops!

 

[CXRAndy]

I just watched that part of your video - not a glitch, you accidentally selected the Canyon Aeroad not the grail! So it would have been fitted with standard road wheelset. Slower setup than sticking with the Tron up there unfortunately - oops!

did I how embarrassing

 

[Legs]

Going back a few posts, wouldn't it be good if Zwift allowed archiving or deletion of obsolete and rubbish bikes?
I'm never going to want to ride the Zwift Carbon again. Same for the standard gravel bike, now that I've got the Aspero.

It'd be even better if you could set up an auto-swap function to toggle between setups while in-ride; preselect 2 or more setups into your 'pit', then it'd do an auto-slow-down and swap at the press of a button. No other clicking or scrolling would be required in the actual event. There'd still be a tactical element to choosing the right time to start the slow-down, and they could introduce a minimum stationary time of, say, 5 seconds, but it would eliminate the possibility of cocking it up through fat-fingeredness and make it fair across different platforms.

 

[Joffey]

I'd love the ability to delete things from your garage.

 

[Norry1]

Anyone doing Flat is Fast #2 this week?

 

[alex_cycles]

Anyone doing Flat is Fast #2 this week?

Yes. Was thinking I might do it today, but I really don't feel like it at the moment, for some strange reason
Might have to be Sunday. Or maybe I'll recover a bit and do it in the afternoon.

 

[Peter Salt]

Going back a few posts, wouldn't it be good if Zwift allowed archiving or deletion of obsolete and rubbish bikes?
I'm never going to want to ride the Zwift Carbon again. Same for the standard gravel bike, now that I've got the Aspero.

It'd be even better if you could set up an auto-swap function to toggle between setups while in-ride; preselect 2 or more setups into your 'pit', then it'd do an auto-slow-down and swap at the press of a button. No other clicking or scrolling would be required in the actual event. There'd still be a tactical element to choosing the right time to start the slow-down, and they could introduce a minimum stationary time of, say, 5 seconds, but it would eliminate the possibility of cocking it up through fat-fingeredness and make it fair across different platforms.

This all would be nice.

But in all honesty, I'd also want them to ban bike swapping mid-race.

 

[Norry1]

Yes. Was thinking I might do it today, but I really don't feel like it at the moment, for some strange reason
Might have to be Sunday. Or maybe I'll recover a bit and do it in the afternoon.

Yeah I'm easy day today, day off Thursday - so will race it Friday or Saturday