I’ve lurked on this thread for a week now. Made the jump and bought a T2240 (with BC discount down to £170, natch!) today and tried it out with my wife’s MacBook, a 3m USB extension lead and a £10 Amazon ANT+ dongle this evening.
Brilliant!!
I downloaded the Mobile Link app but couldn’t work out how to use it to turn left or right at junctions, so ended up on Watopia heading left past the crashed aircraft and… up a mountain. I’m one of those weirdos who quite likes climbing, so despite the little screen and the lack of riders around me, I just carried on getting stuck in and powering it out, changing down a couple of gears and standing up when the mood took me and sitting down, changing back and spinning when that got tiring (much like I do on a real mountain, really).
But the result was amazing – there is no way I’d ever have been bothered to keep going for that long at that intensity in any other turbo session! I even found myself pushing harder than I’d planned to for the last km just because Zwift started showing me possible places on the live leaderboard for that climb!
Thank you for inspiring me to take the plunge. I think the Tacx reads a little high on the power output, I’m going to fit the Stages to the bike tomorrow and use the readings from that, but that was easily the best turbo session I’ve ever done and I’m actually looking forward to the chance to do more.
One newbie question that I may have missed the answer to in the 15-ish pages of the thread that I’ve skipped: what’s the deal with cadence? Even though Zwift detected my Garmin crank cadence sensor, the cadence shown in the game and the on-screen cadence of my little guy was at times completely different from my own physical cadence.