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Me too, though for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Maybe it’s becoming old hat?

With work hours and pressure in the last week or so, this has translated into slackness on the bike. Or more accurately, off the bike. Which did not bode well for stage 4, which I did over the weekend. It was tough. After reading about it from other hubbers, I tried a change bike strategy on entering the jungle. And then change back to road bike afterwards. I probably lost 2 minutes in all. At first I thought it was counter productive to stop, but after a few km after changing to the scott mountain bike, I started to catch people, and lots of them, all on road bikes. I made up 60 places, though i doubt I passed 60 people. I find one is promoted as the long rides drag on due probably to the rate of attrition as people get gatvol and dnf. Tonight I did stage 5, after a long day, and suffered like a pig going up to the radio tower. It was a long evening in the saddle, and the garmin app announcing my average speed and hr every 3 minutes through my bluetooth speaker started to make me the moer in with the thing. I still have stage 3 to do, but will have to wait for the make up days. I hope its not as long or tough as 4 and 5 were. Question for the informed. If you re-do stages, do you still get the double xp points?

Ag, thanks Bennie. [emoji3][emoji120] Its ok, on reflection, I deserve the flak, it was a stupid and injudicious thing to say, so I will take it like a man, and go ride my bike. Without coming down hard, or going to [emoji541]

This is true. Your observation opens up the wider debate as to the morality of mountain biking and trail running in nature reserves.

Well, when I told my brother the story, he said: “shoot the f*****”. So, radically stupid as that idea is, I have been cogitating over that contingency, so I thought I would just float the idea here and troll it for a bit. As to your question, its valid. But, its a slow process. Ask again in 3 weeks? On a more serious note. They need to keep cyclists outta there before someone does get hurt.

I wonder if its the same bird. If so, I also wonder if there is any merit in just shooting it and finished, before anyone gets hurt.

Nice one. Was it tough? I think I will get to it on the weekend, if its still on.

Wow. This is absolutely amazing! Were you not scared? I rode there today, but did not encounter the bird. Thankfully.

@alexis, i hope you find the right trainer. Most have advised you to go for a direct drive trainer, with the Kikr core seemingly being the favourite. Its a beautiful machine, to be sure, but its not cheap. If you can get a 2nd hand unit, optimally find one whose owner bought it in the hope of getting fit on it, but never achieved the aim. Personally, I am a fan of the wheel on trainer, most notably the Kikr snap 2.0. Why? Well, cos that’s what I have. And, the problem with the advice dispensed in these kinda threads is confirmation bias. Everyone is in love with their own trainer, bike, Garmin, bib short etc, so that’s what they invariably recommend, which I guess is human nature. But, here is what I like about the Kikr snap: 1. Contrary to popular belief it is *very quiet* provided that you are not running knobbly tires, and that your bike is well maintained, properly oiled and just running smooth. The bike makes more noise than the trainer. 2. It is cheap. Relatively. 3. As it is a wheel on trainer, you don’t have to mess around taking rear wheels on and off. You just click the bike in when you wanna ride indoors, and release one lever when you want to ride outside, and your’e ready to go. moms have more important things to do than change wheels. 4. If you have more than 1 bike, or more than one family member wanting to use the unit, its very easy to switch bikes in a sec for the reasons mentioned in 3. This is especially important if you have (or will get) bikes with different brands of groupsets; you wont have to worry about compatibility issues with the trainer’s casette. just gooi on whatever bike You want to ride, quick caibration, and your’e good to go. 5. Its heavy and very stable. You can stand up with no fear of falling; 6. It has dual ble and ant + compability. Meaning it connects seemlessly to just about any device, whether windows laptop, apple tv or Iphone Ipad or Android phone \ tablet. 7. Its absolutely bullet proof. I have done 15 733km , with zero issues. That said, don’t buy 2nd hand from anyone who has donnered it every night. Find a seller who is morbidly obese, and demonstrably unfit. 8. If you do have an issue, Wahoo’s after sales service is said to be exceptionally good. (Of course this equally applies to their range of direct drive trainers). In the interests of objective equilibrium, Here are cons: 1. The wheel on set up provides less power broadcasting accuracy than a direct drive. Wahoo say you should factor in a 5% margin for error, but people have reported a bigger margin. I personally think its a non-issue, because whats important is only your own number, which will remain consistent. Who cares if its 100% accurate. 1a. You must be prepared to take a minute to calibrate before every ride, and you must pump the rear tire before every ride, to keep things nice and consistent.also keeping the tire properly inflated avoids slippage. 2. It is very heavy. Not the easiest thing to lug around. (I once put my back out for a week picking it up.) 3. If you are going to be riding it every day, prepare for some rear tire wear. You can address this with a trainer tire, which will last for ages. But, peculiarly its noisier than a standard road tire. I prefer to rotate used tires off my road bike, as they are still good for the trainer. I find the old kaput road tires are still good for about 6 months of punishment on the trainer, before they start to delaminate. 4. You’re buying old technology. The new way is direct drive. 5. Your friends wont be impressed. Not an issue for me cos I don’t have any.

Ya, listen I did not spend a good hour of my life wheel-sucking that Canadian oke’s avatar around Watopia on TOW the other night not to get Kudos and follower requests from him. Who knows what it could bloom into. Our wives (if he has one) could be swopping recipes on Pinterest one day.

I agree, there is no point linking Zwift to Garmin. But, if you don’t link Zwift to Strava, then you’re “depriving” yourself of elevation, route maps, and connecting with all the people you ride events with, and comparing your stats to theirs, not to mention losing out on all the segments, and getting 776 kudos after riding big events. All you’re left with is “boring” data - hr, time, speed cadence and power. And the temp of your paincave’s aircon.

Well, to get the points, you simultaneously run the watch whilst Zwifting. So long as you upload direct from from the device with the required time / hr, you will get the points. You can pair the watch to the trainer to get speed, distance and power readings from there if you want, and obviously the same applies to a sensor. But Discovery only cares about hr. But, if you just connect your Zwift app to upload to Garmin Connect, do not expect to get Vitality points outta Discovery. They accept data only from one of their approved devices. So, concurrent uploads are needed, which messes with your Strava stats unless you’re good about deleting the duplicates. Which I am not.

we have a poet in our midst. who knew?

I did the 6pm opener, with thousands of others. I thought there would be dropout and other issues, but they kept it nice and stable on the IOS platform. The route was pleasant, with the Zwift KOM as the only little climb, and I worked hard to gain about 1000 places, and finish with the first 3170 or so. Lol [emoji23]

Good thinking. I will replace mine when its proper dead, and not before. https://youtu.be/vnciwwsvNcc

Pm sent!! [emoji3]

Yes. Last Sunday I ran an “experiment” by uploading 110km ride on both the fenix 3 and the edge 510. The fenix 3 recorded total elevation at 1278m and the 510 at 1080m. I am sure both figures are exaggerated. But the fenix 3 is definitely unhinged from reality. maybe there’s a firmware update to fix this? I am going to plug my unit into Garmin express to check.

Thanks, I think I will try and give it a shot. Probably better to do the experiment indoors to start off with.

How long do the rides need to be to be effective. Are you talking hr zone 2 easy?

Whoa boy! Put this one on hold for Friday, don’t wanna see it go to waste.

Also did stage 7 yesterday on the Scott Spark. Weirdly i had a permanent dropout, right from beginning to the end I was the only on the course, even in the start chute. I might ride it again tomorrow, I really like the jungle route. I also have to make up stage 3.

Thanks, I will check the QR tightness. I have been thinking about experimenting with a couple drops of bike oil where the QR meets the Kikr. My brain says yes, but my gut says “don’t be more stupid than you already are.” [emoji2356] A cheap fork ain’t gonna do it, I have a road bike [emoji2186] mounted. Thanks for the help.

I am also having fun on Tour De Zwift, though I am being killed every ride. I missed stage 3, so will have to go back amd do it on one of the make up days. I believe its very hard. My trainer, is very quiet and smooth when sitting. But, as soon as I stand I get this very loud creaking noise, which really is getting to me. I dont know if its the drivetrain or the trainer. I suppose I should take the bike and ride it outside, or mount another one on the trainer to see. (I have just oiled the chain). Anyone experienced something similar? Any ideas?

Vitality age, mental health questionnaire, and the dischem / clicks health check?