• Ok. Complete beginner, please be gentle. don't know what I need kit wise.

    1. Some sort of trainer to hook my bike into?
    2. Does it need to be a proper road bike?
    3. One that I have to take my back wheel out? Or is it better to get and put a bike on it full time?
    4. Is zwift all just about racing? I'm wanting to up distances ridden daily, so a couple hours on the bike short break them back on again type of thing. Does it matter for that type of thing? Kind of competing against yourself rather than others.
  • It may be a bit cliche, but zwift can be whatever you want it to be. You can race (and they are hard), you can do training plans (ftp, distance etc), social rides (the events calendar is full of meet-ups), you can ride in a group with a pace rider (various speeds depending on what you want) or you can ride on your lonesome.
    With only a few exceptions if you are on a road bike with a smart trainer then all the only difference between all the routes is the image on the screen. Some trainers (Tacx Neo for example) provide some real road feedback which I assume means if you’re going over a virtual wooden bridge the trainer does something to replicated that. For most of us it just adds a little resistance.

  • I assume means if you’re going over a virtual wooden bridge the trainer does something to replicated that.

    It does indeed. And with cobbles.

  • Thanks.

    I am however having no luck convincing my partner that a trainer set up in our dining room (which is the only room really with space) is an acceptable idea.

    Even though she has a whole room just for her books.

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