Zwift - Cruzbike Activities (races and group rides)

[ratz]

First I recommend those new to discord use the phone app(it's free) with some regular ear bud headphones or possibly set it to speakerphone if you trainer is super quite. Phones these days have awesome sound cancellation technology all you get is clear conversation when setup correctly. After you figure out the phone and how well I should work you can then start messing around with discord on your laptop or whatever which seems quite a bit harder to do when you have to deal with third party peripheral and such. Hardy has more than a few bugs to work out with his broadcasting half of discord.

I have discord up on most days we use it for work People are welcome to schedule debugging with me. I concur you need a good wireless computer head set or a phone with ear buds that are sweat proof and have a microphone work the best. We use beats wired ones here and they work well.

 

[anotherbrian]

We really need Hardy on the discord chat next time since he was our slowest rider and it kind of felt like we unfairly beating him up. I'll start at 250 lbs next time and make adjustments as needed. I will say for the one KOM climb where Brian and I cut loose and ride hard, I was having a hell of a time stick with Brian who didn't even seem to be pushing that hard.

I know you were working a lot harder than me on the climb to the tower at the end. I went up at an all day chit-chatting pace, and I felt bad when you'd let out a little gasp between sentences. It did make it easy to bridge up between you and Hardy between your disappearances.

I've got more than a month until Davis's brevet season starts, so I'm happy enough to get easy miles in just riding around. Not having a training plan I've got no problems drilling it for an hour on any random day if that's what people are up for though. Once London is back I'll experiment with handicapping my weight on the basic loop.

 

[anotherbrian]

After two sets of returned headsets (man Walmart sells junk), the ICE Snowball is kicking tail. Still struggling to learn how Discord works but have finally made the PTT function work. No one told me the key the mic button had to be determined by me.

For those who have been riding the trainer a _lot_ with headphones, what are you using and how are they holding up?

The left ear output on a couple year old pair died on the Zwift ride and I need to find a replacement. I don't care too much about sound quality for music/video, more for robustness from sweat. I'd rather not have to push-to-talk either, so if there is a difference in mic quality and picking up background noises happy to pay a premium.

Even more appealing would be having the output go to speakers and just wear a clip-on mic, though think I might run into the same feedback/echo problems of the other night.

 

[ratz]

For those who have been riding the trainer a _lot_ with headphones, what are you using and how are they holding up?

http://electronics.woot.com/offers/...UgpUOoIMxoyazS-jt-YTxZiJZkpC6yCQm8RoCITTw_wcB

 

[RojoRacing]

Oh damn I better adjust my mirror because team moose is gaining ground. It's amazing how much you can gain just by racing once or twice a week right? Congrats

 

[ratz]

Actually racing almost every night, but whose counting? I saw your thread where the yardbird was whining about downgrading categories so I understand why you can't do educational mentoring by dropping categories. Some just take Zwift too seriously. I simply see it as a big game to help you get faster. What might be fun to try is getting a group of equally poor riders (like me) racing on Discord and you be our coach giving guidance. You would be on the team discord channel but not in the race. Sorta like being the coach in the team car IRL

RojoCOX

 

[RojoRacing]

That would bring out the full brunt of my sarcastic backhanded style of motivational nudging and I'm not sure you guys are ready for that

 

[RojoRacing]

Who wants to jump on zwift and discord tomorrow and do a group ride. It's going to be an easier day for me and I'm not sure exactly how early I'll be able to get on due to one after work thing going on but I figured I'd keep the trend going and put out the invite. It seemed group pacing was easier up the big climb so what say we just go for the pretzel route to start with the option to change it up during the ride over discord chat. 5pm PST start time still work for everyone? If your new to discord please set your system for push to talk and figure out what keyboard bottom triggers your push to talk feature before logging on.

 

[ratz]

Taper week for me with morning rides; but I might have time to do "watch" mode. just to test having more people in the audio.

 

[anotherbrian]

I'm tentatively planning a 200K outside, but considering I'm still awake now that may fall apart. If I'm able I'll join in.

I hear it is supposed to rain out here (NorCal) the rest of the week, so I expect I'll be riding indoors on those days.

 

[RojoRacing]

Team Moose is back on Zwift and I must say we missed it a lot. Awhile back I was given a suggested upgrade for a borderline performance. I didn't and now the first race after Sebring Connie and I were both given mandatory upgrades. The last two days were spent on trying to learn how to stream Team Moose on Beam pro. It's a bit frustrating knowing your typical youngun could hook me up in minutes but I'm gaining ground. Maybe in a week or two, I'll have it rolling?

I tried to figure out that BS for about a hour and then just said F**k it and decided it wasn't worth my time. Just like me not using my gopro to film and edit real world rides. If someone wants to share in my experiences then get on the bike and ride with me.

 

[RojoRacing]

Last night I was field testing my discord/Beam.pro live streaming and I got busted by Rojo. Since my discord site is deadly quiet I figured I would use a live race that has lots of activity on it to check my system. Wouldn't you know it? Up pops Rojo to bust my chops. I am failing miserably getting the Team Moose live channel going. I have the channel streaming but the video, as well as an audio time lag, is well below acceptable levels to do what I am hoping for. It might be my puter or bandwidth or knowledge. Most likely all of the above. Time to go visit a friend.

I had just finished racing and was on an extended cooldown spin when I checked discord to see if anyone was on. Somehow I spotted you over in that other channel and figured I see if you dialed in your setup yet. I had no idea I was spamming a live facebook video feed :lol Whoever that ride leader was his audio kind of sucked and it was picking up some static or background noise but still not at Hardy levels though. I changed my fan location so I wonder if I was coming through clear enough?

 

[RojoRacing]

Zwift name update

I have just changed me zwift name from ..Bwahaha to ..FTP OVER 9000

If you don't get the power level over 9000 you are clearly to old and haven't watched enough anime. Clearly a lot of people liked it and or understood the reference because I scored a massive 29 ride on's during today's ride.

 

[anotherbrian]

This is probably more of a "these go to eleven" crowd.

Macross and Thunder Cats is what was on when I was a teen.

 

[RojoRacing]

Thundercats was so corny I just couldn't handle it.

 

[ratz]

So basically we have Jason on MTB's



And Jason on a V20

 

[RojoRacing]

Bwahahaha

V20 makes you a super saiyan, I feel a marketing angle here.

 

[RojoRacing]

 

[ratz]

Bwahahaha

V20 makes you a super saiyan, I feel a marketing angle here.

this just confirms you were watching dragon ball at far too young an age; and I was importing it pre-internet days at far too old an age.

 

[RojoRacing]

On zwift right now leading Jasmijn around at 200 watts for her distance record thing. Watopia volcano flat route