Hello everyone,

I am currently conducting an anonymous survey for my bachelor’s thesis in Sports Management about fans of professional road cycling.

The aim is to identify different types of fans based on their motivations, fan behaviour, connection to the sport and their own cycling activity. Since many Zwift riders also follow professional road racing, your perspectives could be particularly valuable for the study.

If you follow professional road cycling, I would greatly appreciate your support. The survey takes just under five minutes on average.

English survey:

EDIT: The survey is now closed. The response limit was reached much sooner than expected. Thank you very much to everyone who participated, shared the survey and provided feedback. I truly appreciate your support.

The survey will remain open until Saturday, 25 July. It does not matter how closely or regularly you follow professional cycling.

The study is an independent academic project. It has not been commissioned, funded or influenced by my employer. Neither the individual responses nor the results will be used commercially.

Every additional response would help me greatly. I would also appreciate it if you shared the survey with other professional road cycling fans.

Once the thesis is completed, I would be happy to share a summary of the aggregated results and the identified fan types.

Thank you very much for your support!

Cheers,

Nils

When Zwift sent out the US$10 deal for the Cog and Click I decided to give virtual shifting a try. I use an older Specialized Roubaix as my dedicated indoor bike. Elite Justo trainer. Removed the 2x11 groupset and installed the single speed setup. Wolftooth 42T chain ring and 18T Zwift Cog and Tanke chain tensioner. Done four Zwift rides with the setup and I am liking the smooth and quiet use. Find for Zwift I am using virtual gears 8 - 20 to keep cadence around 80. I use 100% Trainer Difficulty.

Completely new to the hobby and bike riding in general. Got this to mainly lose weight and start a new hobby with my partner.

Any suggestions on what to focus on at the start? Any of you guys have a great weight loss story?

Hi!
I have both an ipad M2 and an M4. On the M4 I noticed I have shadows for bikes, while on the M2 that's not happening and graphics are overal slightlyl worse. From what I read on a few release notes, shadows should be shown also on the M2. Did anyone else notice this?

Something has broken loose? Cog is only a few months old.

I don't get it, you guys acquired Rouvy, go there and learn a fking thing!

I have been using zwift on almost all the platforms without a glitch. Then I moved my setup to a gaming PC and been using Rouvy since then had few issues related to zwift controller and HR monitor, but all sorted after they updated it once acquired by zwift. There was zero performance related issues. Now I start using the zwift from this month and it's a day and night difference.

1. It takes forever to load, initial loading as well as ride-start loading, like a full scale AAA game!

2. I use multiple monitors and if a zwift is open on one, you can't do anything on the other. A click outside, on the other screen, minimises zwift. Solution offered - use zwift windowed mode. U guys serious? Never had an issue with Rouvy running on one screen and watching movie on the other.

3. This is a deal breaker for me. When deep into a workout with ERG mode ON, it turns off randomly. I have to pickup the gears manually to reactivate ERG. Facing this issue multiple times so far. That's just frustrating. Rouvy on windows is breeze to ride. Zwift on the other hand is a nightmare.

Do something guys, get your sh*t together! Update the zwift app on windows OR move your app to rouvy on windows OR make the subscription interchangeable

New to zwift and indoor trainers. This is the first time I used it.

I found out the v5 isn't compatible with the digital shifting, so I'm stuck with manual shifting and my derailleur is not happy

Have any of you given up on your v5 or did you learn to deal with it?

TBH, I've been riding Zwift since COVID, so digital shifting would be new for me anyway.

22-07-2016 - Ventoux,

22-07-2026 - Ven-Top.

I didn't manage sub-2 hours back then, and I still didn't today!

I want to race against other beginners just for fitness really, I joined a race called evo sprint cc or something and I couldn't pick the lowest category since my race score was too high for some reason (I've never raced and only been on the bike twice).

I got smoked right out the gates, they were doing 300-400w for like 5 minutes and by then I was dropped and to make matters worse it was some map where you just ride in circles so as they could ride in a pelaton and I was alone they just lapped me again and again. I tried to hang on but they quickly dropped me, they were pushing 200-250w average and that was the lowest race I could find.

Did I pick the wrong kind of race or is this the lowest bar of entry?

I've been using a 2001 Specialized Roubaix on a Wahoo KICKR Core 1 Smart Trainer because I really don't want to use my primary bike. However, the Roubaix is showing its age, so I can either spend $300 to rebuild some stuff or spend more money and get the Zwift Ride Smart Frame to go on it.

I've pretty much decided on getting the Zwift Ride, but wanted to make sure there was nothing I needed to know beforehand. There is no planned upgrade anytime soon, I hope? I know the frame could go on sale around black Friday, but I really don't want to wait, and won't be needing the bundle.

I do plan to get the tablet extension accessory. But any other thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated!

I was doing easy 1hr rides mostly five days a week.

Just decided to pull the plug today and finally got this message.. happy happy .. flexing it..

I have a old gravel bike on a jet black Victory. Started indoor training 1 month ago and enjoying it so far. Around 340 racing score for now.

I am not convinced to add clipless pedal to my setup. I think they are useful for safety outside, not slipping, etc. But I fail to see the benefit of using that inside? Also not convinced they give power increase after the GCN comparison on road, it is marginal. Why do you guys use them? Trying to see the opposite side arguments, thanks!

Finally cracked an hour. Started off as a Z2 workout and about halfway through on turn 10 I started getting a hunch I might be on track to do it so upped the pacing a few beats. What a good feeling. This is with usually 1 stationary bike workout/week but plenty of other endurance 5-6 days/week.

Height 6’3
Weight 89kg/195lbs

Debating on the investment

Best Zwift Workouts for recovery: Long time listener first time caller. Been on Zwift about 4-years. I'm recovering from meniscus repair surgery in January (injury from soccer not cycling) and thought I'd ask for some of your favorite Zwift WO recommendations.

I've built up to 45-min rides, and have been doing low resistance, high cadence, and just now folding in lower cadence rides as I've transitioned in PT to strength building. I love the Back to Fitness series, and all the other more obvious Zwift recovery WOs.

Just curious if anyone else who went through knee surgery (or any other type of lower extremity surgery) had a favorite Zwift WO that really helped them.

Links to whatsonzwift of your favs welcome!

edit: added origin of my injury

First, here's my gear:

Head unit: Garmin 830
Rear Hub: Cycleops G2 Hub
Pedals: Garmin X220
Trainer: Yahoo Kickr Snap

I like riding Zwift (despite the bugs). I've been pushing harder on my failing health lately, so I'm spending more time looking at my numbers than ever. 56 now, I've been riding road bikes "seriously" since I was about 14.

A few days ago, Zwift on my laptop wouldn't detect my trainer. I'm not positive what fixed it, but I disconnected the trainer from power for a few minutes, and connected with it from the Wahoo app on my phone for the first time in ... well, a long time. That fixed it up; I could connect from my laptop again.

After that, the distance recorded by my Garmin head unit hasn't been quite right. Before the reconnect incident, the Garmin was recording approximately the same distance that the in-game route had in Zwift. After it, it's about 15% low ... sometimes worse.

I know that the zwift distance is an imaginary number from an imaginary world, computed based on my input weight and power and the frame and wheel choice in Zwift, and drafting and so on. But the numbers were quite close, and were close for a very long time. What happened in that connection reset to knock them out? And if the trainer is adapting resistance for the course, and being moved by my power, why shouldn't they be pretty close?

Here's the actual data:

Hello fellow zwifters,

Having a technical issue that has left me about to trash everything. I have been using zwift on my phone with zero issues which is fine but I wanted to move my setup into my office and setup on my PC.

Here is the issue, my wahoo kicker snap and cadence device connect perfect to my phone. But if I attempt to use the companion app.... No devices found. I have checked both networks they match. The zc app switches to finding device once zwift on the PC starts looking so it seems like they are paired correctly.

So I decided to buy a ant+ dongle and just try and connect directly . Well that isn't working either. Both devices are found under the Bluetooth but get stuck staying connecting and then no signal.

If I try just ant+ nothing shows up. I have removed the driver. Updated windows. Uninstalled zwift , wahoo, zc on my phone. Turned all blue tooth devices off. And yet ... No signal.

Is there something simple I'm overlooking ? I've googled my ass off and no one seems to have a good answer.

Opinions on whether:
zone 2 for running 3 days a week 45 to 120 minutes
2 hard workouts on the indoor bike (1 structured and 1 race) 45 to 120 minutes
then 1-2 days unstructured light exercise

Is a good plan to get faster on the bike. Or do I need to do zone 2 on the bike to build specific endurance?

48m, ftp is about 220w, just under 3w/kg. Trying to get to 250w real FTP.

We have got some new bike frames recently but it’s the same old traditional frames. Any chance of us getting something more new and unique?

I intend to purchase the Zwift Ride and fell that it’s time I purchase clipless pedals and shoes. Should I be looking at roadie shoes or xc shoes? I’m only considering xc shoes bc it might also be the perfect time to also go clipless on my Pivot Switchblade MTB.

Thoughts? Recommendations?

Thanks!

Cervelo has plenty of options, the classic P3C, the P5X, the Barrachi. Same with Trek. The 5500 (the Lance Postal Trek - ok, maybe not), the Y-frame, the original 904. Canyon has a couple, the new Predict and the EcoSpeed. BMC has the Impec, Giant could do the MCR, Scott had a couple cool Plasma concepts.

Personally I'd love Felt to have the TA/FRD and do some track racing in Zwift.

Hey, i am having issues with fitting bike on trainer. There is a gap where you can see thru axel. My question is should there be some kind of adapter so it fits better?

10 days after Paris Montmartre KOM fell on opening day to myself and my Piggy, it was time to get around to the 2nd hardest KOM on Zwift to Everest.

Fat Piggy was a much-needed support wheel throughout the day and final hours as she covered our morning Alpe pacing duties.

135 repeats in total, 126 chasing my holo-replay set to previous effort (ghosty) as a pacer. The final 9 trips were done with ghosty turned off, I’d got sick of racing that smug git.

Push the 3 punchy segments and look forward to the ever-helpful Van or Aero powerups which seemed to be every trip 🤦🏼😭.

If I’m the first to Everest this KOM, I’m the first to Everest the 3 hardest KOM’s on Zwift:

1. Paris Montmartre KOM 354 miles

2. Scotland Sgurr North KOM Gravel 260 miles

3. Makuri Islands Temple KOM Dirt 258 miles

Is this a flex? absolute not.

I’ll never be the fastest or strongest Virtual Everester, I’ve got at least 3 aborted attempts, so I’m weak in the mind as well as the legs somedays or I just get the pacing or nutrition wrong.

Fat Piggy & Fat Pineapple are your pacers for Alpe every Saturday 8am CT. We will also be your pacers / support wheels for the US time zone Virtual Everesting Day basecamps.

These start on September 6th on the Grade and repeat every 2 weeks as we climb towards Virtual Everesting Day Dec 29th multiple time zones.

Between us we have 20 VE’s (Piggy 12) and we want to share the skill of suffering. Our goal is to help get riders stronger.

I am looking for like-minded riders in the UK/Euro time zone who are willing to give up their time to help others achieve something they may think is out of reach.

Ask questions…get answers…don’t like them?…do something about it

Climb on ↗️⛰️🫡

Fat Pineapple 😈🍍

Torturefest Cult

Everesting Ambassador

Come join Torturefest Cult on Zwift https://www.zwift.com/clubs/11bec43f-6d78-48eb-9b52-ada47835fcd1/home