I found some time this afternoon to mess with the trainer. Unboxing and assembly is straight forward. It took 5-10 minutes to make sure all the parts were there then attach the legs. Nothing of note.
I fought with my chain for a bit, but turned out I could not find my chain break tool anyways, so I left my existing, old chain on the S40 and set about trying to mount it. In the 4 years (I think) that I have had this bike, I don’t think I have had to attach the wheel since I first assembled it. The last chain/cassette replacement I had the shop do. Popping the front wheel off, I really hoped that the chain stays stayed together; they did. I used the cardboard cutout to measure the dropout with; 130mm seemed right. I popped on the adapter and attached the front wheel with their skewer. Once I started attaching the bike to the trainer, it took maybe 10 minutes.
originally I thought I might need to pull the post mount disc calipers off, but there was just enough clearance. I had zero issue mounting an original model S40 to the Zwift Hub and did not need to make any adjustments.
I still had time before dinner, so I updated the firmware and hopped on the bike. I like to ride out through tempus Fugit as the LAX turn around is 10km and takes 19-20 minutes to warm up a trainer. I did try to run a spin down in game and starting at speed like I have done for years on my old Wahoo Kickr Snap. After the spin down, I was down to 40w. Ok, save the session and go back to the login screens. I ran the spin down from the trainer pairing screen before jumping in game and that worked well.
Last fun part, trainer and I are warmed up, let’s do an FTP ramp test. I did one on with my Snap 2 night ago so I have a recent comparison. It’s a ramp test, not much to report about the test itself. Other than I have never hit the 300w mark (fail at 280w mark). Today, I did get up there so, FTP boost. Overall, from Kickr SNAP to Zwift Hub, I have picked up 15-20w.
The biggest difference though is the lack of noise. So much better in the house when riding!
Tomorrow is my first race with it.
