Zwift indoor virtual reality trainer

Cheers, sounds like the individual workouts would be best for my friend.

For myself I have made a small library of custom workouts that I use depending on my needs.

FINE!

Just tried zwift first time. Interesting.

I was on rollers with speed, cadence & hr sensors.

The speed recorded on 3rd party app (black background) correlates to power zwift calculated. Zwift speed is much more up n down, and distance covered is about 75% of my other recording 9 vs 12.

Anyone in the know can explain what's wrong or not?

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Bit of a guess but some virtual hills slowing you down on the zwift recording?

Maybe I guess. I was in "flat course" as it was the intro ride. It did mention gradient at one point during the tutorial.

Got swept up in a large group for some of it? There’s some odd draft physics at times

That's to be expected. Zwift is using just the roller speed to guesstimate a power value, then using that in conjunction with your weight to derive a speed in the virtual world, factoring in (as others have said) drafting and gradient. It's really designed to be used with a power meter.

It's really designed to be used with a power meter.

If I get well into it I might upgrade. Ta.

Next question. I follow almost 200 people on Strava... many use zwift. Is there a bulk follow your strava connections option I'm missing somewhere?

^ question bump with added csb

Sharp left appeared on the screen last night, started to make the turn on the rollers... caught it just in time but was defo a squeaky bum moment. /csb

Hmm...

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Fixed

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Did Zwift change the epic KOM? I've hardly ridden in 4-5 months and set my fastest time up to the radio tower which seems surprising

can you use a Lightning to HDMI Adapter to cast Zwift from an iPhone to a tv?

Edit: yep, seems you can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKp4lMBA3s

Any hints and tips for running Zwift on an Apple TV?

Install it
Open it
Use it

Never had a problem with updates.
Might want to think about a different remote /using your phone if you race as too much sweat isn’t great.

Been really easy in the two years or so I’ve been using it on Apple TV.

Get a case for the remote: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/favorite-zwift-apple-tv-accessory.html (there are other options, mine has little ball-bumps at the back)
Use "Pair through phone" functionality if the limited number of Bluetooth channels are not enough

I now use it exclusively on the Apple TV, in fact purchased a separate ATV just for this, leaves the computer open for other stuff such as Netflix or Youtube or GCN+ (sigh)

Progress

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(Just ignore the transformer, I’ll tidy that away next).

That cable appears very taut.

I finessed it a little, after the photo- I think it will be ok.

I look forward to content such as
https://www.youtube.com/@ZwiftyZwifter

and
https://youtu.be/ZxiwL1F3gpw?si=EvytLMGeavFghUBO

I have a wobble board jobby that I don’t use because my Wattbike has wheels on it (so I can move it out of the way of the tv) and the rocker board does not. I want to add retractable wheels, preferably to the edges, so I don’t cut holes in it.

Anyone done it? Anyone know what sort of wheels I’m looking for?

[not my board not my Wattbike but that sort of idea]

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Maybe something like this, but with a horizontal attachment.

Edit: need to not increase the overall height of the bike + rocker when bike is in use, as I’ll run out of headroom

Or any other solutions anyone can suggest

Does anyone know how Zwift works out time gaps? I had a ghost of my fastest recent time today and it reckoned it was never more than 2 mins behind, even when I finished 10 mins faster. Seems odd.