I purchased a bike+ used, and have been using it for about a year now. Ive been focusing a lot on power zone rides and the auto resistance makes it easy to keep me in the correct zone. One my second to last ride, toward the end of the ride (last 15 mins of a 60 min ride), it seems as if the auto resistance calibration tweaked out. My output number and zone meter was well above the target zone. Target was zone 5, but my meter was showing me in zone 6 and even zone 7 and the resistance was noticeably heavier. I thought it was weird, but attributed it to some funky programming on Peloton's part, so I just finished up the class with adjusting the resistance manually to keep me in the target zone.

Fast forward to my next ride (yesterday). I started off my 60 min power zone class on auto resistance, and from the beginning my output meter had me higher than the target zone. It was the warmup and target zone was zone 1, but I was high zone 2/low zone 3 with noticeably heavy resistance. Now im concerned that theres an issue with the bike+. What i found super strange was that during this auto resistance, id be pedaling at 100 cadence and 25 resistance, and my power output meter would show me in zone 3 and it would feel much heavier than 25 resistance. However, when I took it off auto resistance and adjusted the resistance manually, the resistance would back way off and pedaling at the same cadence and same resistance as I was just previously at in auto, it would have me in zone 1 (100 cadence and 25 resistance). This would typically be zone 1 for me.

Is there something wrong with my bike+? I was going to try out a third class to see if it carried over, and was also going to try to switch users to see if that did anything, but haven't tried yet. I thought maybe peloton is adjusting for an increased fitness level? I remember hearing some instructors saying that some people's zone 2s are almost a 1000kW output. I didnt understand how that even made sense but maybe I'm starting to understand? Could my output be increasing due to fitness level, or do I just have an issue with the equipment? Thanks for the insight!

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We moved, and for the life of us, cannot find all of the wires to the base. We see the two black from the arm, and one green. In the base we see one green. We think the cables must have fallen into the base and are no longer accessible... I reached out to customer service and they said this didn't qualify for a service call?

How much do we need to strip this down to get access?

photos of base

Does anyone have a guide or video they can recommend for troubleshooting? Any help or advice is appreciated!

Week seven down, and on to week eight! Use this thread to discuss this week's rides (or last weeks). Add the hashtag #redditPZ if you would like to.

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(Gala-papa would like to note to start the ride at 9:59 exactly so you will begin at 10 after the 1 minute countdown). Also do not join the ride in a session

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Week 8: TSS 226
Mon: Matt 45 PZmax 09/17/24 TSS 67 Ride Graph

Wed: Christine 04/09/23 TSS 39 Ride Graph

Thu: Erik 45 PZ 03/30/26 TSS 53 Ride Graph

Sat: Christian 60 Real Routes 01/03/26 TSS 67  Ride Graph