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[steverob]

I'm not even sure they were climbing wheels that I could see to be honest. They were very shallow rims, but the only logo I could see was Zwift's own, so I think that could only have been the stock wheels image. I still think they were almost certainly the correct wheel, it's just the image being displayed to others that was wrong.

 

[alex_cycles]

Meant to ask last night Andy , you mentioned I was on shallow wheels then you saw them change . Basically I equipped the bike with my DT Swiss bontragers before joining the ride but Steve mentioned he could see climbing wheels but I could see the bontrager logo . So I went and changed back and forth between the 2 sets . So all along I thought I was on deep sections but everyone else saw shallow just seems a bit weird

Just keep working on that Tron climbing and then for 3/4 of races it won't be an issue

 

[Milzy]

This race league thing is better than WTRL or what ever it’s called. Hopefully I’ll do the next set.
Thanks Steve.

 

[Legs]

So what’s faster for solo riding in the Jungle - a gravel bike or a TT bike?

 

[BurningLegs]

Just getting my rig prepared for the TT…

 

[CXRAndy]

Hi Phil, yes I saw shallow rim wheels on your bike, I thought you'd had then swapped them and next time your avatar appears on the start line up, deep rims were fitted

 

[CXRAndy]

So what’s faster for solo riding in the Jungle - a gravel bike or a TT bike?

Not telling 😁

 

[CXRAndy]

A bit beaten up today. Spent all morning drilling a core for new water main 32mm.

It took far longer than expected over 3ft of concrete and sandstone foundations.

Knackered

Water back on 💦🚰

 

[alex_cycles]

So what’s faster for solo riding in the Jungle - a gravel bike or a TT bike?

https://zwifterbikes.web.app/route/jungle-circuit
Says gravel. Certainly when I did "dust in the wind" as a race in November, I swapped for gravel in the jungle and passed people who stayed on road bikes (and made enough of a gain to stay ahead even after swapping back again.) I think some people like MTB for this route.

 

[Legs]

Do I need to buy the Specialized Crux then? Anyone want a second-hand, barely used Canyon Grail?

 

[alex_cycles]

Do I need to buy the Specialized Crux then? Anyone want a second-hand, barely used Canyon Grail?

If you think you need those 0.22s to beat us, then by all means
I also have a grail and not a crux

 

[Legs]

Oh shoot, I misread that as 0 minutes 22 seconds! As you were!

 

[steverob]

Tonight I'll do a quick test to check where the spawn point is for a Jungle Circuit meetup (just in case it isn't where I think it is - one or two courses are a bit weird like that) and I'll report back with what the "correct" distance would be if we go ahead with this.

Note - I don't do my testing half arsed. It's full on or nothing at all.

For the record, the spawn point for meetups is roughly where I thought it would be, near the Jungle Pens. My fear was it was going to place me somewhere near the banner at the bottom of the hill, thus messing up my planned distance, but thankfully it's where we expected - in fact it's actually a tiny bit further back from the pens than I'd anticipated. Took me about 0.35 miles to get from where I'd started to the actual pen exit and 0.5 to where the Strava Jungle Lead-In segment begins. You leave the tarmac section at 1.1 miles.

I originally set my meetup for 8.8 miles as a test and that worked out to be just after the lap banner after one full lap, but I'll probably set our distance to 9 miles to give us a margin for error and cause I like round numbers. Also the dirt climb doesn't begin again until about 9.15, so the extra bit is all flat and mainly on wooden bridges anyway.

That does mean though that if you create your own meetup (rather than have me create one for you), you will need to make sure your Companion app is set to Imperial rather than Metric temporarily, as the Distance field only accepts numbers to one decimal point and 9 miles is 14.484km - or you can set it to 14.5km and hope that the extra 16 metres doesn't make any difference to your time!

 

[Peter Salt]

Note - I don't do my testing half arsed. It's full on or nothing at all.

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For the record, the spawn point for meetups is roughly where I thought it would be, near the Jungle Pens. My fear was it was going to place me somewhere near the banner at the bottom of the hill, thus messing up my planned distance, but thankfully it's where we expected - in fact it's actually a tiny bit further back from the pens than I'd anticipated. Took me about 0.35 miles to get from where I'd started to the actual pen exit and 0.5 to where the Strava Jungle Lead-In segment begins. You leave the tarmac section at 1.1 miles.

I originally set my meetup for 8.8 miles as a test and that worked out to be just after the lap banner after one full lap, but I'll probably set our distance to 9 miles to give us a margin for error and cause I like round numbers. Also the dirt climb doesn't begin again until about 9.15, so the extra bit is all flat and mainly on wooden bridges anyway.

That does mean though that if you create your own meetup (rather than have me create one for you), you will need to make sure your Companion app is set to Imperial rather than Metric temporarily, as the Distance field only accepts numbers to one decimal point and 9 miles is 14.484km - or you can set it to 14.5km and hope that the extra 16 metres doesn't make any difference to your time!

That looks like a lot of faffing about with the settings. How about we simplify, ignore the lead-in, and do two laps of the circuit?

 

[steverob]

Meetups don’t allow you to do laps unfortunately (unlike club events), they insist on you typing in a distance. Plus having the lead-in and a lap is good for someone like me as it means I do the downhill twice but the uphill only once.