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  • Zwift newbie Q
  • gavmoir
    Free Member

    I have a “dumb” turbo with a speed and cadence sensor, hooked up to Zwift and working fine. However I haven’t found any instructions on which gears to use. Obviously a very easy gear gives a very low speed and a hard gear gives massive resistance (for the same resistance setting on the turbo). What I can’t understand is that it doesn’t seem to be linear (i.e. as I go through the gears my speed hardly increases at all until I’m pushing a massive gear and turning myself inside out – there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground of moderate effort resulting in moderate speed).
    Am I doing it wrong? Is there a special setting to make it more linear?
    (Please refrain from the obvious ‘you just need to get fitter’ gags…)

    mduncombe
    Free Member

    what sort of trainer, Mag, Fluid etc?

    Differing technologies produce different resistance curves. The speed of your rear wheel is going to be a result of the gear you are in and the cadence you pedal at.

    With all dumb trainers you use gears to control the resistance. Zwift uses the speed of the rear wheel against a known power curve for that particular trainer to convert the speed into estimated watts (ZPower), which then determines your progress through the Zwift world.

    gavmoir
    Free Member

    I’ve selected the correct trainer “Elite Volare Mag Force Elastogel” but the zpower option is greyed out. So I deduce that the Virtual Power curve is the only available option and that is very curvy and not very linear. 😥

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