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16 Jan
10:38am, 16 Jan 2025
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hellen
Gobi wrote:I ride in level 30 kit and have since I was a level 30 - it's a good orange I must be close to 25 climbs now and all a mix of 100 and 125% Do people have their training on 100%? FTP test next Monday or Tuesday and expect as always it will hurt.


What do you mean by 100%?
I’m using a wattbike, had it a few years but not as into it as I could be. Just realised what a tron bike is and want one. Fortunately a friend said to click on the Everest challenge, I did as I was told not quite seeing the point! Had a look when I found out Everest = tron bike and I’m 78% there !
16 Jan
11:58am, 16 Jan 2025
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Gobi
In zwift you can set your trainer difficulty

So if you are at 50 % and on a 10% climb it's actually only 5%
16 Jan
2:58pm, 16 Jan 2025
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wolves1877
Whereabouts is the setting please
16 Jan
5:07pm, 16 Jan 2025
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kstuart
When running zwift go into the my settings bit and provided you have connected your bike stuff up in the hardware section i think it is there will be a trainer difficulty slider. It's only accessable if you have your bike connected up with Zwift however. You can't change it any other time.
16 Jan
5:38pm, 16 Jan 2025
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Hendo
....but that's only for gear ratio purposes, you still need to push the watts to get up it :)

So if you have it on 50% and push 200w for 10kph the only difference at 100% will be what gear you are in.
16 Jan
7:11pm, 16 Jan 2025
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wolves1877
kstuart wrote:When running zwift go into the my settings bit and provided you have connected your bike stuff up in the hardware section i think it is there will be a trainer difficulty slider. It's only accessable if you have your bike connected up with Zwift however. You can't change it any other time.


Thanks for that I’ll give it a try
16 Jan
7:30pm, 16 Jan 2025
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MudMeanderer
wolves1877 wrote:Whereabouts is the setting please


In the menu from within game, there is a tab for hardware settings, and a slider that allows you to set trainer difficulty. It defaults to 50% I believe.

I'll usually have it at 50%, but will occasionally shift it, typically if I find I'm at the cusp of frequently jumping from little to big ring to hit the power/cadence combination I want. I've different cassettes and chainrings on different bikes and the turbo, and it captures things like my instantaneous aerodynamic position different to on the road, so it's already not giving a perfect one to one reflection of outside. Given that, I'll find a resistance that suits my intended session whilst putting me toward the middle of the block.
17 Jan
2:09am, 17 Jan 2025
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Foppotee
Did my FTP test. I actually ended up virtually the same as the last test (326w). I'll hope to add 10-15 watts over the next 12 weeks.
17 Jan
8:09am, 17 Jan 2025
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Northern Exile
That's very decent, impressive.
17 Jan
9:50am, 17 Jan 2025
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Gobi
@Hendo watts are watts for sure so it depends on your training goals

I use 100% as I climb in the real world so need to put out watts at 50 cadence in the same way I can put out watts at 100 cadence

@Foppotee nice numbers indeed, WKG ?

I'm not looking forward to testing in a few weeks 😀

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