Zwift indoor virtual reality trainer

Good setup

We should organise a LFGSS meetup??

Boom. I am jealous.

In Zwift, we should, I have no idea how as I am forever alone normally.

Why do they have aero section seat tube on a turbo trainer?

Is this a ploy to get me to sleep with you/call home office on me?

Looks are fast

I think you need a more sports themed beverage container.
(i like the cable tidy)

Rigidity probably. No idea otherwise.

Yeah, Bromley beer festival plastic cups are not ideal but I can’t be arsed with doing a bidon every time

For slow riders.

Obvs.

Just invested in a cheap(ish) rocker plate to try and improve bollock comfort (which has always been my main issue when turboing- never really get it outside)
(have done bike fit etc).
I'd say it was fine until I got out of the saddle then it was all a bit sketch.
But then its a Tri/TT bike so I shouldn't be out the saddle all that much anyhows.

I am a vet making a come back. Invested in a power meter a couple of months back. Thrown out the window the old school way (I.e base miles, racing to get fit, weights, club runs etc) and just doing high intensity on rollers with plenty of active recovery. I am thus far astonished by the improvements made in two months. I was a bit old School and very sceptical I.e I thought I had to loads of ‘base miles’ weights and spend half the weekend on my bike. These are the rules abstain from alcohol as much as possible (this as been the hardest bit for me) club runs are not training, racing is not training, knocking about with your mates is not training, commuting is not training, buy and learn to use a power meter, record everything you do on the power meter especially records of pbs, cadence always over 100rpm, recovery is crucially important and part of training. How I do it, I train almost every day, but around 2 out of 3 days my training is active recovery strictly spinning 100 rpm about 170 watts for 45 mins, ratio of hard effort in training is about 10%,(Sounds easy but I am shitting myself on hard days cause it hurts!) session of 1min 3min 5min and occasional 20 mins in a session about 45 mins long. About 3 or 4 efforts with plenty of recovery between efforts. A lot of cyclist will say this is bull shit but it really works for me! Equipment bike obviously, I use rollers (much more fun than a turbo easier on your knees and hips and won’t snap your bike!) I use a power tap hub and connect it by blue tooth to my lap top and use Rouvy to record my rides.

I've just tried to use my 2017 macbook pro for zwift and it doesn't seem to like my ant+ usb dongle. The power is being picked up by my Garmin so the power meter is definitely working but somewhere between the dongle, usb-c adaptor and laptop there's a broken link. Anyone else using an ant+ dongle on usb-c or a macbook pro?

Yes, with intermittent success.
IF you can get bluetooth to work, then its all good.

Always found it troublesome. Get one of those ant+/bluetooth bridges if you can, like the CABLE - https://npe-inc.com/cableinfo/

Get rid of the Garmin. Go trainer to MacBook and then use one of those wahoo HR straps to go HR to MacBook. Both via Bluetooth.

I only turned on the Garmin to make sure my power meter was giving out signal. I'm using a power2max so can't do Bluetooth.

Have you used this? It mentions an app a lot, do you have to use that of would it connect to a laptop directly?

Never used one. My understanding is that you use the app so it knows what signal it is picking up and how it is kicking it out.

Hmm, I didn't even know these things existed before. I'll do some more research.

Yeah not much info out there. Almost bought one for my P2M classic before it borked.

I don't think zwift likes ant+. It didn't when I was using powertap hub and ant+ and Android.
I think they prefer Bluetooth.

Zwift loves ant+ but only if you're using it on a PC. I'm not sure why exactly, as it's supposed to be possible but Mac + Ant+ + Zwift just never works properly.