Hello,
I do want to give a try to swift and i’m wondering about what to buy to have a good experience?
I can see 2 options
buying a full indoor cycle like a Schwinn 800IC → will that provide a nice experience and feeling?
buying a rear device to put my bicycle attached to?
Any tips here ?
Thanks
A smart trainer and a bicycle will give a much better experience in Zwift than the Schwinn. There is a very short list of indoor bikes that you could consider and they’re all pretty costly compared to using a bike you already own with a smart trainer. Wahoo, Wattbike, Garmin (Tacx), and Stages are the only good indoor bike manufacturers for use with Zwift. Decent direct-drive smart trainers start at about $500.
What sort of bicycle do you own?
The 800ic is a spin bike, I went the Schiwinn IC4/IC8 route at first, fully functional with Zwift and other biking sims for the first while and enjoyed it. But I enjoyed it so much I bought a Wahoo KickR V5 to get better immersion of the game and a better feel plus I wanted to race. The Schwinn will be over estimating your watts by about 100 so it will make it look like you are better than you really are.
As mention by Paul, what bike do you have now?
I first bought and used the 800ic, which is a very good spin bike. But after two months of using it I upgraded to a stages Sb20 bike. And like Jason said, the output of watts is way over. I have lots more fun riding the sb20. And the 800ic is not controlled by Zwift, so you have constantly turning the resistance knob for changing the resistance…
Hello,
Thank you all for your answers.
I own a Cannondale Scalpel Carbon 4 years old with 4,5k km actually
Ok so i need something automatic resistance speaking reading you
What about the zwift one with my bike on it?
My concern about this is i’m using 3 chains that i swap each 100km to use them 3 the same with my front and back gears so putting my bike on a separate gearset will kind of ruin it no?
The SB 20 seems fantastic, but it is an investment, maybe in a near future, but for start it seems too expensive for my balls to still exist when my wife will know the price 
Tx
I’ll quote myself: Zwift on a spin bike - #24 by Otto_Destruct
TL;DR: buy a smart trainer (Zwift Hub is good value) and put a real bicycle on it.
Your mountain bike, as someone else commented, may not having the gearing necessary to work well with Zwift so you could be looking at another bike.
The complication with the Scalpel will probably be getting enough resistance from the trainer with the small front chainring. In Zwift, you can’t adjust the basic level of resistance manually, so if the bike has a small chainring like 32-36 teeth then you may spin out on flat terrain. If that happens the workaround is to use the QZ app (qzfitness.com) in between the trainer and Zwift. You pair the trainer to QZ, you pair QZ to Zwift, and then you can use virtual gears in QZ to get enough resistance.
Also if the bike has SRAM 12 speed, you will also probably want to buy a SRAM XDR freehub and cassette for the trainer.
Assuming you put a new cassette on the trainer, a new cassette won’t increase chain wear compared to using it with the more worn cassette on the rear wheel. The only issue would arise if the old cassette and chains are already so worn that they don’t mate well with the new cassette.
ok thank you i understand better,
So buy a used road bike to put on a zwift hub would be the better thing here, a basic bike would do it right?
Yes that would work better. I would get something with an 8-12 speed Shimano drivetrain and 2-3 chainrings. That way you can order the Zwift Hub with the correct cassette included. Clean the drivetrain and put a new chain on it.