Ability to turn on ERG mode during ride

Feature Requests
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It would be good during a just ride session that you could manually turn on ERG and set a constant watts to ride to. This would help ride to constant watts on a segment so you could try to beat you PB.

2

Hi you can i train in erg mode with all my trg and have no issues

3

Itā€™s not trivial, but it can be done. Set up a custom workout at the desired wattage and start the workout mid-ride via the menu (or ā€˜eā€™ key on Windows or Mac OS X).

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4

I would rather have an easy ā€œcruise controlā€ button available on screen that sets your current wattage and holds it via ERG mode.

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5

Yeah, and I want a pony!

6

Buy one, but be sure to test the compatibility with Zwift before!

PS. I find Mikeā€™s ā€œcruise controlā€ idea would be a perfect solution. Wrote a workout for it, but it is a workaround.

7

Where do you put the power meter on the pony, or does it only work with a speed sensor?

:rofl:

8

So you can turn on a custom workout mid rideā€¦didnt know you could do that. I suppose I could also create a customer workout for say 3 hours at my desired watts, then start the custom workout but turn off ERG straight away, then just before the segment turn ERG back on, thats probably easier right.

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Yes, as long as you donā€™t mind missing out on some potential XP.

10

Make the workout segmented in short intervals and you can make more XP (depends on your speed, of course - but for my active recovery with 55% FTP is it possible).

11

I think 62 second intervals are ideal for accruing XP. See

12

Iā€™m new to Zwift and quickly discovered the lack of an ERG mode toggle while in ā€œjust rideā€. As the OP was three years ago, Iā€™m resurrecting it to see if anyone has any other suggestions or news. Doesnā€™t seem like Zwift is doing anything about it. Is creating a custom workout the only workaround? The other problem Iā€™ve noticed is that when in ERG/workout mode you can only increase/decrease your power by 25% maxā€¦ why so limiting? This seems arbitrarily small. So you have to create several different custom workouts are various levels of you want to vary your erg target significantly.

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The other way that people use ERG mode in free rides is to unpair the trainer from Zwift for ā€œResistanceā€ and pair it to a cycling computer or other workout app. If your trainer has a manufacturer app sometimes that will do it. Hereā€™s another example: