Zwift meetups and social rides ?

Me in too.
Bumble bee kit again I assume

Don’t think we will be able to wear bumblebee kit. Zwift April fool this year is compulsory 80s retro bikes and kit.

This zwift April fools kit and bikes thing is not going to help the grouping, plus the weird 80’s blurry camera is hard on these old eyes!!

Oh… I certainly wasn’t aware of that…

I guess we’ll just be doing our best.

Hey I would be up for this, although waiting for Yodel to find my Kickr and send it to me. ( Due Sat 28th) If it finally arrives and i can get it setup, i’d love to join.
Would it be ok using an mtb?
Cheers

This zwift April fools kit and bikes thing is not going to help the grouping, plus the weird 80’s blurry camera is hard on these old eyes!!

Just fired it up on my Mac to have a look, love the retro bikes but the shitty blurry graphics (some people online are saying you’re meant to wear 3d glasses?!) and VCR effect make it looks like it’s going to be vomit-inducing & borderline unusable! Loads of people complaining online.

I also had a look on my iPad, and it seems totally normal (no retro bikes or video effect). Possibly because I haven’t bothered to d/l the latest update yet? So if you haven’t updated your iPad yet – DON’T!!

Not really related to the Zwift meet-up, but just wondering – who uses zwiftpower?
What is the point of it? Is it just for race stats? I remember looking into it when i first signed up to Zwift, but never actually signed up.

Zwiftpower is basically what’s ‘right’ and wrong in racing in that context.

A mate did the Watopia tour race yesterday in D.

The first 10 riders over the line finished on over 4w/kg in D… one was close to 6w/kg.

Zwiftpower filters them all out of the ‘results’

It also has leagues, rankings, points etc.

Anyone finishing outside of Cat limits are either kicked out, or moved up etc. People without HRMs can’t be on the podium and people without smart turbos cannot either.

It’s basically what’s the ‘fair’ representation of the results after the rules are applied.

I did a stage 1 of Watopia race last night but it still hasn’t shown up on Zwiftpower, my stage 4 & 5 efforts are there though. Weird.

So how would I go about signing up to this evening (attending is time and SWMBO dependant obviously)

(I’ve followed Weeksy)

Sent.

Super ta. 7pm should give me time for (mini house bound) circuit training before hand too so hopefully see some folks there, if you’re really lucky you might get to hear me breathing like an old fashioned dirty crank call over discord too.

ZwiftPower is for those doing the races really.
Some races as said – no HR monitor then no result. But some races do allow you to result – my HR strap broke last week, and Amazon delivery not scheduled till May!!
So no HR till then. But I was disqualified in one race, but been shown in others .. podium places too; so I think HR is certain races only.

Not going to make it tonight so I’ve cancelled my invite to free it up for someone else.

I’ll definitely be there for the next. Enjoy chaps!

As Blackadder once famously said ‘My life is strewn with cowpats from the devil’s own satanic herd’. Now can’t make tonight so my legs will be saved from being ripped off by the usual suspects.

Should be back for the next one.

Not going to make it tonight

Ditto – did a ride at lunch time so can’t make it. Have declined the invite to free it up.

Ditto

Ditto here, home school declared a last min INSET so I went for a ride outside!

Same here. Wife had an asthma attack today. Have got her settled now and got some steroids from the docs to help her out (she has had a cough and we have been self isolating but coming to the end of that so docs were ok the prescribe) but I don’t think I am in the right frame of mind as has been pretty stressful. Little man goes to bed between 7 and 8 and I’m not going to make her walk up and down the stairs just so I can have a bike ride!

Enjoy yourselves. Let me know when the next one is on.

Fine 🙁

Mooman. I’ve got a spare Garmin HR strap knocking about if you want it. I lost it, bought another then found it so it’s spare but happy to lend you it til May if you want. I’ll wash it!

Slowpuncheur – thats very generous, and thank you very much. But I can manage not wearing a HR monitor for awhile – my podium results are less frequent than the races that disqualify me for not wearing one, and I more concerned about my average watts than results if I am honest.

But big thanks all the same.

I’m not going to be able to make tonight I’m afraid weeksy.

Not feeling at all well. Not virus related Im very glad to say, stomach related.

I’ll have Discord running though if anyone wants to try it though.

If you do, your best to click on your name in the app, then the cog (for settings), scroll down to “video and call” and tick the box labelled “press to talk”…. Otherwise your Mic will go hot anytime it hears a noise…. Which will cheese off other people and potentially embarrass yourself to boot.😉

I think only 3 or 4 have clicked the invite link anyway but at least it will give those that want to a chance to try it.👍

https://discord.gg/YYaQmJ

Username = Poopscoop

stomach related.

I’ll have Discord running

Might give that a pass thanks! 😉

^^ lol. I’ve certainly had my exercise today running to the toilet.

If it were an outside loo I’d definitely have broken current lock down rules…

Apologies for the late cry off weeksy.
After a blustery day here building up my new bike, it’s turned into a lovely evening so I’m heading out for a shakedown run.

This is gonna be interesting with all the retro kit 😁

Anyone having trouble getting into the Voice channel on Discord need to click on the STW icon and select “STW Voice” channel rather than the General channel.

That “should” work when you try next time. General chat is for text messages only.

Hope everyone had a great ride!👍

Thank you for arranging that Weeksy. I clearly need to work on the staying with a group bit.

I kept yo yo-ing back and forwards, every time I dropped off I over shot catching up, then dropped off the back again over shoot and so on. That or chasing down people who, when I got there, turned out not to be in our group at all

Yes I seemed to be yo-yoing a lot more on that ride, still great fun though 🙂

Well, that escalated 😅 Blowing out my arris for 45mins chasing Mooman and P.Alcock

You boys were flying!!!

We had fun though benman?

Yeah it was good 👍

I was waiting for you to disappear into the distance in the last 5 mins 🙂

Really enjoyed that again – thanks for organising Weeksy

Thanks for organising that Weeksy, thoroughly enjoyable apart from that little kicker every lap!

Really good session tonight chaps! Myself and Ivan buddied up for most of it… had a few issues with the new turbo tyre slipping, but was a GOOD workout!

DrP

benman
Member
Yeah it was good 👍

I was waiting for you to disappear into the distance in the last 5 mins 🙂

I made the mistake last time of assuming Alcock would go for the sprint to finish the last 30 seconds … and he didnt, so I felt a bit silly going off on my own. So made sure it was a sensible group finish this time.

Hopefully catch yous next time.

We were about 5 mins in and it looks like my tacx vortex lost connection with my iPad, first time that’s happened, game over, rode a 42km loop in Watopia instead 🙁

Great ride again Steve. I was surprised how much the first climb blew everyone apart.

I had a great ride with Ian W for a large chunk and then foolishly decided to try to catch DrP and Ivan. That nearly killed me and I had cramp at the end of it. Props to DrP for riding the MTB!!

Sounds like a good one chaps.

Anyone up for a spin at the weekend? I’ll have more free time then.