Hopefully I’m not the only one who’s found this, but when riding around on a 0% gradient I’m at a point right in the middle of my cassette where there’s a 2 tooth jump (think I’m running an 11-28 11spd so nothing too unusual) and to churn out 180-190W puts me at either slightly too high or too low a cadence to be super comfortable depending what gear I pick. Sure I could change cassettes or chainrings to dial this in, but if the range of trainer difficulty is adjustable then this should be possible too?
this has been asked for previously – if memory serves, the MTB crowd have asked for this because their overall gearing is too low and on flats/downhills they can find themselves spinning out.
I’m sure there’s a variety of circumstances where it could help, I’m not expecting anything as fancy as the full virtual gearing on a smart bike (although I imagine that some of the trainers could achieve something like that and them we could run singlespeeds or belt drives on them) just a degree of tunability
I wonder if this is something that should be asked of the trainer manufacturers also/instead? That is, some way to configure or calibrate base resistance in their respective apps that sticks with the trainer when running any 3rd party app such as Zwift.