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What am utterly shit video

The rocker plate.... Rocks! 🤙🏼👍🏼😎

can you explain how to use my list in-game. It's not intuitive at all....

Thank you!!!! 🙏

If you want to quit a workout you just fast forward the steps ….

Fab video. Found the same the grade was lower than my ramp and my ramp FTP is usually comparable to the 20 Min FTP. Im a heavier rider so i wonder if the switch backs sap that little bit extra, where a 20min or ramp is less so staccato type efforts. That said maybe thats psychosomatic as the grade looks pretty linear on the graph. Fab ramp result you did there 👍👍👍👍

This showed up in my feed. Are you considered good? my ftp is 10w lower doing the same test (I die 1min sooner) and i'm a couple of kg lighter than you. i'm trying to assess how sucky i am.

First time I've ever seen all those cooldown prompts :D

Well done, kudo's for doing two FTP tests in a week (and another one next week)! Found a number of small issues in Zwift, hope that they can fix this. Not sure you noticed them as you were going all-out ;) 1. The 440W interval was marked as completed (star) while you stopped a the start of it (great effort though!) 2. At 24:07 in the feed the intervals switched to 390-410-430W etc, while during the test they were at 380-400-420W etc. Switched back after a little while... 3. The resulting FTP value screen was shown for far too short, it is easy to miss, especially if you go all-in. 4. 75W cool down for 10 minutes is far too low for people with a 300+W FTP, turning off ERG is probably a good solution. Or Zwift could use a FTP percentage for the cool-down.

"We put a test in your test, so you can test while you test."

is the ghost rider available ,after first attempt

15:26 "starting" to feel a "little" burning in the legs?? Grrrr... LOL

solid work!! looking forward to this once i have it

Great shift. Impressive. I'm disappointed that you're disappointed!

Appears that zwift took 88.8% of your avg watts to give you your FTP. Makes sense for only 14 min test. I wonder if the math changes for those of that take longer?

Am I the only one who is seeing those 87 million drops in awe???

Congrats Eric! :D Not gonna lie, its fun seeing others suffering for once One thing I don't understand: is the time/distance fixed for everyone ? 14mins seems short compared to the usual 20 mins...

Very nice! It seems if you're more of a steady climber, less of a punchy climber, with a flatter power curve, in the spirit of micro-optimization you're best off riding the heaviest bike available to maximize the test duration.

The final gradient is smart, it prevents coasting to a finish, essentially encourages continued effort.

The new best heavy breathing experience there is! 😃

Id like to add a workout to my list and start it right from the companion app.

very useful, are we getting the zwift cog and click in South Africa

do you have the universal hub? Or does the virtual shifting work with a regular kickr core that has a cassette installed?

Thanks it was very helpful for me

Bye zwift

This is your health care professional speaking: don’t stop pedaling when your heart rate is 160 please. Spin it out, good for recovery and your heart.

Is there a firmware update for the v5 Kickr to use virtual shifting with the Zwift Play controllers?

Well done! Was the plan just to smash a high pace from the gun? It seemed like HCT may have been outmatched a bit.

THREE.....HUNDRED......WATTS.....!!??!! 🤯

Thank you for the kind message at the end of the race - Unfortunately, I have my in game messages turned off 🤦‍♂️ Great race and well done to your team 💪 it was no fun being the 1 in a 4v1 😂

Not on Android yet (just like every new feature for the Companion App). They seem to take days before appearing there, even though you've done the update. The update I did today said it was from 26th April, v3.57.0?? Why didn't this update appear before now? Guess the next version will have the new feature?

I just updated my Zwift Companion app and do not see "My List". I'm on Android FWIW...

I wanted to know that what power meter are you using? are you using the inbuilt powermeter of the kickr ? Or a seperate power meter for zwift? i also have wahoo smart trainer and i am using the inbuilt power meter of wahoo smart trainer so i wanted to know that is wahoo inbuilt power meter is accurate as outdoor power meter because i don't have an power meter yet i am only using the smart trianer power meter

I'm failing to see how this is a surprise to anybody who has done group/TTT rides on Zwift for more than a few hours. The drafting is pants (that means rubbish by the way!) - always has been and probably always will. Comparisons to IRW riding are useless, Zwift is a game and has to be accepted for what it is (or isn't). Having said that I miss RGT and its "wasted watts" display😢

Yay! Good race 😊

This doesn't work with the Robo Pacers. I find i have to match and often exceeed the power when sitting in the pacer group or i'll get dropped.

I’ve tried riding at the minimum amount of watts to stay in the draft, and like your video, it was a lot, so I’m not surprised. Still, it’s very useful information. Thank you.

Insane. Would not have thought that

Any chance this looks different in 1st person view?

Interesting! Any TTT riders care to share how they counteract this? Like the lead rider stops pedaling for 1-2 secs after pull? Or 2nd rider shouldn’t ramp up to pull target before their pull starts?

I've suggested that if Zwift pushed you out to the side and into the wind when doing more watts than needed, it would make this obvious. I'm not sure this can be done though as some riders are using steering and will try to get back into the draft position.

Big Rides are the best

Curious though that the Sauce draft meter was showing a fairly high degree of variability (high 70-s to high 80's) behind the the larger version of rider 1, but fairly steady low 90's behind the smaller version. Suggests there is a difference, but not in the direction I would have assumed. Consistent though with your watt wasting video that I watched immediately before this one. Significant window in which nothing happens in the draft zone. But still...... the numbers on the draft meter???

Yeah, that's nuts, but after nearly 9 years on Zwift and a great deal of experience on other platforms, I have no expectation that Zwift ride physics mimic reality. Other platforms have done a much better job. It's a shame that Zwift failed to capitalise on such an obvious and useful tactical aspect of the game, even if they don't care about reality. While the outcome seems obvious it would be interesting, even if for its own sake, to hold the lead rider's power steady as you adjust their dimensions and see how much additional power the 2nd rider has to push to stay on the wheel.

So the height of the rider does impact their personal resistance from drag but not other riders? Cant help but wonder how the powerups works with that. Thanks for the research!

Good video Eric but sadly many Zwift riders have never raced IRL but expect Zwift to be exactly like IRL. It’s just a video game - not real at all, the racing results are not real either.

Glad to see my work has been peer reviewed 😊

Key data point. Riders are same height and weight. So not real life, does a taller rider behind or in front make a difference? does 10-20 kg's make a difference? I've seen 100kg riders putting out more watts, same wkg as a 75kg rider but be pulling away on flats.

Eric, One of the reasons I have never loved Zwift is that it has always felt a little "dead". Besides the delay in power onset, there has also been this seeming lack or correlation between power input changes, and resulting action in more scenarios than this. You have done well to demonstrate and quantify this, but my belief/ impression is that the "characteristic" goes far beyond this limited case you show. Have you tested to see if there is any other kind of power [bracketing] in larger group situations?

I thought this had been well known for many months.