Zwift meetups and social rides ?

Good Work Kirky impressive effort

Wow Kirky that’s impressive – heading towards crazy!

Who’s up for the uber tomorrow?? 🤣🤣🤣
You can tell the wine is open…

The beers taste good tonight. Well earned and made all the sweeter by Bidens win.

I’m good for the Uber in the morning! Enjoying some wine and a nice three course Iranian themed meal.

Assuming that Brian cracked open the 10% beers and is no longer able to stand!

I am also ok for not doing the Uber tomorrow 🙂

That France hill will seem easy on tuesday after today’s elevations

There is less climbing in Tuesdays race than there was in New York. It just looks more intimidating in France.

Forum lurker here and only really got into Zwift the past month or so.

I’ve been reading this thread loads, fair play to everyone riding that distance and elevation today.. think my furthest ride is about 30km so far 😂

Robbo if it’s ok I’ll add you on Zwift in a min, it would be good to join up and ride/race with other members.

Stupid question but how would i join races/rides when they are on through the week?

@rmprest just watch the zwift threads, there are a few but this is the main one for meet ups. Follow some of us on zwift and then we can send you an invite if you want to join any of the rides…just let us know on here.
Not all rides are as crazy as today, we also do shorter ones and always look after the group as today.
Come join in, don’t be worried to get involved, best thing I did to get the most out of zwift

What’s your zwift name and I can add you to upcoming invites?

There is a Tuesday race series which is handicapped. I just need your weight and ftp to work out your handicap.

STW Zwift Autumn Series 2

There is also ttt in thursdays – all are welcome. That is organised by Savoyad on his thread.

Zwift Team Time Trial, Thursday

Have a look through my friends list on Zwift – add anyone with a STW tag in their name. Add STW after your name and people will know you are from the forum.

There is a weekend morning ride pretty much every weekend but I don’t always organise so if you add the STW tag people know to invite you along.

@oopnorth ok great, cheers will do. Just sent Robbo an invite anyway so will keep an eye out for other usernames

My Zwift name is – Richard Morgan (STW)

My avatar picture is a cat wearing sunglasses (obviously)

@robbo1234biking brilliant thanks for all the info. I’ve just added about 40 STW people on Zwift so that should do the job. Oh and changed my username so it’s now Richard Morgan (STW)

Tuesday race series sound good, I’m 67kg and FTP is currently 195

Looking forward to getting involved !

Just followed you on Zwift Richard.

really enjoyed today, much easier to do a big route in a group. Thanks for organizing Robbo. Would be up for either of the Pretzels or PRL. Have my 100 mile Zwift badge but didn’t think of doing the PRL route when getting it.

Assuming that Brian cracked open the 10% beers and is no longer able to stand!

I resisted those, grabbed a couple of easier ones from the shop so had those. I was pretty much unconscious by 9pm, much of which I’m blaming on the work week but yesterday morning’s ride out certainly didn’t help!

I hope the uber is going well this morning.

Ha I was also in bed by 10pm last night, couldn’t keep awake any longer.

Another long ride we could consider is the 25 lap volcano badge, it’s a bit repetitive but should be better as a group and would benefit some drafting. It’s around 100km in all.

I’m thinking short and flat at the moment, I’ll start thinking up to long and hilly once I’ve a few days between me and the Horsemen

Morning all!

Sorry I stopped and bailed yesterday!
This ANT+ issue is weird (I’ll stay a new thread! ), frustrating, and also really demotivating ….

For example…. I’m doing a workout this morning…all was fine…. power good, all ant+ connections fine..
Then… the PC does a “bleep bleep” like something has been unplugged.. and the mouse cursor comes up over zwift…and I lose everything….
But…!! If I minimise zwitt, and open trainer road (which wasn’t open or running) I can connect/see my PM and HR etc….
Weird!

Also… I take the crank power as accurate, and it’s what I use for ftp and training etc….
When that drops out (as, annoyingly… it’s ANT+ ONLY) and I have to use BT and the turbo for power, it massively under reads..

305w on turbo is ACTUALLY 370ish watts according to the crank! I can’t train, race, or keep that up!

Anyway… I’ve ordered a second hand 4iii power meter so I can use BT solely… and forget ant+ all together..

Is clearly a zwift issue, but they won’t accept that!

DrP

One huge problem with zwift is it doesn’t play nicely at all with things running in the background. Steam kills mine 5 times or of ten. Playing music will cause alt tab issues when tracks switch and the like, BT headphones are fine until they drop out /power down etc, at which point zwift loses all BT devices and needs restarting to find things.

That’s a huge difference in power output according to the two devices. What are you using for the turbo? By comparison with your cranks a wheel off turbo should be more accurate as its basically a hub based meter (which are more accurate than cranks) on a stand.

Well done all for yesterday. Sorry I didn’t make it, we had nice weather so it was a 5 hour hillwalk with the kids instead.

I think my ant+ issues last week were due to stuff running in the background, mainly garmin express which I thought I’d stopped but obviously hadn’t. All running fine again now so hopefully I’ll be back next weekend 😎

Hi gents

I had no issues on my iPad till updated to iOS 14 then it started dropping out regularly and I don’t thing it was Zwift as the pairing screen was saying I was connected but I wasn’t , then stated using Mac book but it wasn’t great (it’s 8 years old) so took the plunge and brought a dedicated gaming laptop and so far been great the detail is brilliant even get a front light.

I’ll second that..a gaming pc makes the detail awesome!

Brian… it’s a novo elite thing…

Maybe steam is an issue? Anyway… I like the crank pm for real world riding too…

I can’t sink any more money into ‘this’ (!) So a wheel off turbo is out of the question!

I’m happy with the 1% accuracy a crank pm offers….
Once the 4iii turns up, I’ll be happy again!

DrP

Brian… it’s a novo elite thing

Usually the wheel on one’s read high! That’s likely a setting thing but they’re notoriously inaccurate.

I could, and should, adjust the trainer settings….

But it’s cool… I’ll move on the current PM to another bike, or sell it , and can carry on as normal again!

DrP

So Mega Vs Uber.

Based on my time on Saturday it would take me around 3h 55mins to complete the mega (greater distance – less climbing and the climbing is more spaced out for recovery time) and Uber pretzel is 5hr 24mins but I suspect would take longer due to finishing on the Alpe and you’ll be completely fubared by that time.

PRL full doesnt interest me as a route at all due to the repetitive nature but that one should take 6hr 41min at my pace – I will have to do it at somepoint to finish the challenge though 🙁

6 hours of riding is pushing the boundaries of saddle soreness and potential divorce 🤣🤣🤣 Mega is definitely an option but I’m not sure when I’ll get the time to do the other 2.

Although based on yesterday’s performance I’m not sure I’d actually be able to get up the Alpe at the end of the Ultra 🤣🤣

Either for me, times no issue at the moment, PRL I won’t look to do when that comes up. 🙂

Any commutes this week?

Forge I’ll maybe be virtual commuting towards the end of the week, the tuesday night race tends to stop me doing anything on a Tuesday or Wednesday now.
I also have to fit in an Academy workout one morning too.

Ok no worries, I may set one up for Thursday or Friday I’ll see what my plans are for the weekend riding and if I need a rest 🙂

Uber should be fairly straightforward. It’s longer but the climbs are relatively easy, well spaced out and if you have a decent group there’s plenty of flat to recover on.

I’m home Friday so up for a commute if folks fancy. Happy to put one in?

Also are we doing Sunday “hills” this week? I did suggest fan flats and sprints as folks fancy for something different and a complete change of pace from last week but I’m very happy to be overruled.
Again in happy to put one in the calendar.

Anyone up for hills this weekend? Maybe something flatter?
Dust in the wind, out and back again, perhaps twice around Yorkshire or similar? Maybe something we haven’t done for a while.

Throw your ideas in, any preference for Saturday or Sunday?

I think I can do Sat or Sun this week but prob not at long as last week! I wouldn’t say completely flat as we are riding on the flat on Tuesday’s race.

Commute wise – I can make a recovery ride on Friday morning depending on how I am feeling after the TTT on Thursday evening i.e. I may not make it!

I’m planning 2 of the ZA workouts tomorrow and Friday Robbo, not sure if that will work for your recovery ride… I’ll be probably doing the CCW Volcano circuit one on Friday if you want to use the rubber band?

I was planning to do one this morning but it’s the sprint one and that was never going to happen after last nights race 😉

Can do Saturday or Sunday this weekend flat or hilly only thing not keen on would be laps, though I see Friday is laps but shall do that as a commute 🙂

I’m also up for a weekend hills ride and would prefer some elevation (but less than last week!)

Sunday would be good for me. I’m up for ‘owt, I’ll look at routes later and pop something in.

Popped invites in for dust in the wind on Sunday then. It was that or everything bagel (because I’ve still got it to tick off) but I don’t think I can face New york this week.

New York is banned…