I have been in field based B2B sales for years. In my experience every company has a different way of working out commission payment. Some you have to hit targets to get, others work on a straight percentage figure. Even the percentage figures can be based on turnover or profit. Also depends on the basic salary too. If the commission is target based then it depends how achievable the targets are.

So as you said there is no simple answer – just make sure the commission scheme suits you and your lifestyle.

However i can find no trace of the race nor my stats on zwiftpower. any idea why not? Is it because it was a ride rather than a ‘race’ proper?

If it was a group ride it won’t appear on Zwiftpower, it just tracks race results. There are a few exceptions with group rides that have a race for the last lap.

I did the first 2 hours of the SZR Endurance Ride this morning. A good group ride that pretty much stayed together the whole time.

Yes they do. Private rides don’t appear on any of the leader boards.

If you are worried about people seeing all the training you are doing you could set up a Zwift only Strava account with a false name.

So now we have virtual epo, ebikes and getting your Expert XC wife to smash out segments for you

Strava times should all be my own, I am pretty careful in deleting her rides from my Strava account. I have just checked and her fastest time up Box Hill is 1 second quicker than mine, that gives me something to aim for :-) All my times on flats and descents are much quicker than hers. She can’t generate enough power to keep up, but has the benefit of being very lightweight. .

It annoying the way it doesn’t update the avatar for people already logged in. I think the name changes now, whereas in the old days that stayed the same too.

Yes if she wants her own account she has to pay. However there is nothing currently stopping her using your account and changing the name, sex, weight and height when she logs in. My wife uses my account sometimes and does this.

I don’t think you get anything for climbing Everest, it just unlocks the next challenge, which take ages and ages – I think it took me 11 months to complete. I nearly always use the Tron bike, I don’t think it is the fastest, but seems to go well up and downhill. I occasionaly use the steel bike with a seven-eleven paint job that doesn’t seem too common.

alp_girl, the PAC rides are a great place to start. They stick to the advertised pace, and have sweepers to pick up anyone who drops off the group. Last night was the sub 1.5 ride which is the slowest, but sub2.0 should be fine. The ride leader and sweepers talk to each other on Discord during the ride to keep it all together.

mashiehood, 10,000m of climbing is about 20 times up the mountain, I doubt you will do that in 100 miles, but it is worth it in the end.

Avoid those cheap Neos on Amazon. It seems to be very dodgy, it was mentioned on the Facebook Neo page a while ago. I am guessing they ask you to complete the transaction outside Amazon when you contact them.

Neos are around £1k, but offers come up from time to time.

I had a similar issues with Ones. Went up fine the first time, but after a few months they wouldn’t reseat again. I got them to work by increasing the depth of the rim bed slightly and making them a tighter fit. I just ran a few layers of insulation tape around the rim bed, they went up fine after that.

It works really well. A couple of the team log into Zwift and just watch. During the race they will follow team riders and give them updates over Discord on how they are doing, how other riders are doing and generally try to motivate everyone. It gives a bit of extra motivation knowing that someone is watching. They will comment on other riders heart rate etc. Ideally if a couple of team riders end up in a group it helps with the tactics being able to chat and time attacks. Unfortunatly the chaotic starts to the races doesn’t make forming a group very easy.

At the moment not everyone in the team is signed up to Discord, it does add another element to the whole Zwift experience.

Letting my 11 year old son loose on the 18:30 1.5w/kg PAC ride tonight.

Yes looking at the Flyby I think I was 2-3 seconds behind you at the top. I remeber a couple of riders ahead of the group I was in at that point. If i had known you were a STWer I would have made more of an effort!

Jamie, I hate to think how much I would sweat wearing those.

Scaredypants, I wonder if I rode with you at some stage? I was the first rider under 3.2. I started well and was in a good group, although made a mistake on the descent after the Reverse KOM and got dropped by that group. Decided to ease off a little to be swept up by the group behind, hung in with them until the KOM climb, and then gave it full beans from there to the finish. Despite the mistake in the middle the race went fairly well.

Found me – says I am unlinked. What does this mean?

I don’t know how it works,but have you linked your Zwift account and Strava account to Zwiftpower. Mine are linked and I never have a problem with the results appearing.

If you click the down arrow below the results it shows more riders Are you in that list? I am not sure why these aren’t shown in the main results?

I don’t think resistance changes when you are drafting, I have never noticed it. Drafting means that you use less power for the same speed, but the trainer doesn’t adjust the resistance.

A few more details on the config file stuff here:

https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201559235-Graphics-Quality-

I used a dumb trainer for a few months on Zwift, and the realism sucks you in, so you do feel obliged to change gear on the hills. Also everyone generally puts out more power on the climbs, so if you want to keep up you change gear anyway.

I am guessing that the Zwift profile for your trainer is based on a certain resistance on the dial. If that is broken you might find your power is off.

Doing the ZZRC Sub 2.0 ride tonight, it is the only way I can force myself to do an easy ride. My legs are still suffering after last night’s ZTR Race and I have a bit of riding planned over the weekend.

Muddydwarf, first thing is to check that your laptop runs Zwift. You can do that now. Then you will need a USB ANT+ sensor for your laptop, I use a Garmin one. Your speed sensor will then communicate with the USB sensor and feed the wheel speed into Zwift. As you have a dumb trainer you will have to change into a harder gear when you go up hill, or keep it in the same gear – upto you really

Went there with work a couple of years ago, I had been in New York for the week before and it was a nice contrast to the hustle of NYC.

The Capital Building is well worth a visit, we had been booked some tickets in advance that gave access to some of the areas you can’t normally see. Some one else had arranged it for me, so not sure how easy it is too sort out. If it is a nice day a walk around all the memorials is fairly interesting. As mentioned above also a lot of museum to see. I remember George Town being a nice place to go in the evenings.

I have found my Neo to give a very similar power reading to the setup I had before, which was a Powertap rear hub and Cyclops Fluid trainer. All the tests I have seen on the Neo show it to be as accurate as the power meters on the market. The downhill function adds to the realism, easy to spin out on the descents, and if you free wheel the ‘rear wheel’ still has speed when you start pedalling, on a normal trainer you have to re-accelerate the wheel from a standing start.

All the rides are listed here:

http://zwift.com/events/%5B/url%5D

If you use the app you can also see how many people are signed up for each one.

I only want it to connect to zwift in the mancave. I’m running at 29mb/s so my option would still be good?

Even at half of that you will have no problem with Zwift. It is more reliant on a steady signal, than a super fast one.

For a steady hour ride on Zwift I tend to join in a group ride, there are normally plenty at weekends. the phone app has all the events listed. Otherwise if f I just go for a ride on there I do tend to get a bit bored. The group ride gives a bit more focus, without the full on effort of a race.

Power line adapters won’t work in my house. I use a Netgear EX6100 wifi extender to get a strong signal for my turbo setup. Works fine for Zwift, although as mentioned above it does half the speed.

My architecture pictures on Instagram seem to always get more likes than the bikes pictures.

There are normally a few discount codes floating about for Audible. I have subscribed to it a few times and have never paid the full price. Currently on 3 months for £2.99 a month. I always use it for books for the kids to make long journeys bearable…

Have you updated the software on the Neo? a few people have reported that this has fixed strange sounds.

From one of the trailers at the end it looks like the BBC will have some coverage of American football and baseball in 2017. Which is probably the reason those two sports got mentions this year.

You may pick up some places in the sift??

Looking at Zwiftpower probably 2nd overall. Out of the top 9 it was only Skyler and me who were under the 3.2w/kg limit. I think we both spent most of the ride sat in the group…

The distance countdown didn’t work for me in the KISS race, it also didn’t work for my wife in the earlier ZTR race.

At the start of the KISS C race I found myself in the strange position of being at the front of the lead group as we went into the first tunnel. We formed a fairly big of 20 or so riders and kept a steady pace up on the flat. Tactics seemed to be a big part here as no chance of going off the front, and best to let others sit on the front. The pace picked up a fair bit on the reverse KOM climb and I went over the top with a lead group of 10 riders. For the next flat section we all stuck together and increased the gap on the riders behind. The KOM climb split us further and I ended up in a group of 4 riders, chasing 2 riders who had opened a gap on the climb. We split further on the final small climb, I think I finished 4th on the road, out sprinted by someone who timely used an aero power up. All in all a good race.

Back from my daughters nativity play in time. Planning to enter the KISS race in 25 mins.

I think there are a lot of badly setup turbo trainers out there. Zwift have tried to make it as accessible for as many trainers as possible, but from experience I know that some trainers they support just don’t produce repeatable accurate power data. My Cyclops fluid trainer was an example of this, the resistance of the trainer varied as the fluid changed temperature.

I don’t take the results from the racing too seriously, it is just good motivation to ride as hard as I can. I am sure there are people that finish ahead of me I could beat in a real life race, and there are bound to be people behind me that would beat me in real life. What I like is that you are racing real people rather than a computer simulation – at the start of the race you never know what tactics are needed, and every race is a bit different. How quick the people I am closely racing are in real life doesn’t really matter

The guys with an ftp over 5w/kg in races do get checked, from what I have seen most of them are known within the cycling community, and have real life results that back up their Zwift performances.

I normally race on Tuesday nights, but will have to give it a miss tonight due to my daughter’s Christmas play.

Is the date right on your computer? if it is a day out it will give you the wrong map.

Just about to do the PAC ride for an easy spin.

Mark, for the 10 second intervals try to go into them with a low cadence (maybe 50-60 rpm) then increase your cadence as the interval starts, that gives the trainer a bit more chance to deliver the resistance. Works on my Neo.

I did the KISS race tonight. I had just eaten, and wasn’t really motivated to race. So started and just took it fairly easy in a reasonable size group, I think the front group was about 30 seconds ahead of us when we got to the bottom of Box Hill. I was feeling pretty fresh at that point so thought I may as well put a bit of effort in on the climb. Passed quite a few on the climb, got a PB for the climb too. Then backed off on the descent, ended up with a sprint finish in a small group at the end. It made a change from just riding the whole race at 110% and in the end I finished fairly high up in the C group. Race was a bit short at just over 30mins.

Nath well done on the result. The 95% relates to your 20minute power, which you wouldn’t have got in that race. Another way of working out FTP is 90% of your 8 minute effort, which you almost did in that race.

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1. You insure the car. I have had a PCP car stolen, the insurance claim was the same as normal. It is worth getting GAP insurance to cover the difference between insurance payout and the outstanding finance. GAP insurance is about 150 for the term of a PCP or lease policy. Depending on the lease or PCP you need to confirm with your insurance company that you don’t own the car – although I don’t think everyone does this.

2. It is the normal manufacturers warranty on a new car, which should cover most things. You are treated as if you bought the car for cash. The deals normally include breakdown cover too.

3. You are liable for that sort of damage. The way I view it is if I own the car I would pay to put damage right, so it makes no difference if I have to give the car back at some stage.

Could pcp and NOT buying ever be cheaper?? Hmm…

It depends on the final value offered by the finance company. They have to guess what the car will be worth in 3 years time. In my experience that figure can vary by a fair bit. The difference is reflected in the monthly payments. Most dealer schemes will have a low final figure so that you have £1,000+ in equity in the car, which you can then use as a deposit towards a new one. Going away from dealer finance you tend to get higher final figures, with lower monthly payments – although you often don’t get the same incentives.

Cougar, that is pretty much the set up I have with my work car. I took out a PCP deal on a 6 months old Audi, which worked out a lot cheaper than having the same car as a company car. Only one month deposit up front. It works if your mileage is low, once it get over 25k a year it makes less sense.

I went through this at the start of the year. My wife had a Mini Cooper S that we bought at 5 years old and had owned for three. It had a few reliability issues, so decided it was time for a change. My wife doesn’t so massive miles, but needs a reliable car for work. I worked out what the Mini had cost us per month (including depreciation) over the three years and set that figure as a maximum for a lease price (including the deposit). Ended up getting a really good lease deal on a well specced Peugeot 208GTI for less than the Mini had cost us per month, plus it is under warranty for the contract so no unexpected bills. The fact it is 8 years newer means it is a much nicer car to spend time in compared to the Mini. Not for everyone, but it works for us.

I have had PCP cars for the past 10 years or so. I have taken them as an option rather than company cars, so was fairly relaxed about the ‘it’s a hire car’ part of having a lease car.

Edited to add: There are a lot of expensive lease deals out there, you need to shop around and be flexible on the car you want to get the best deal.

Pierre, I generally set the realism on my Neo to 50%. The bike I have set up on it has a 1×9 drive train. At 100% I would grind to a halt on the steep climbs, and spin out on the descents.

Freeagent, as long as Zwift supports your turbo then yes the gadget you link to will let you get on Zwift. There is link of supported trainers on the Zwift home page. You need to be using a normal 700cc wheel for it to work properly on Zwift.

I don’t think it is enforced in that race, everyone was in the same category. It is only needed when everyone is mixed up, or in the days before the event module. I always change mine out of habit. Just make sure you Strava file has KISS (C ) in the title.