Hi. I sweep a lot of different group rides, and noticed for the first time a few days ago that the yellow beacon group was strung out and all lined up right down the middle of the road, along the center line. Later they were right down the edge of the road. When trying to sweep, I was in the middle of the lane (I don’t have steering), and the person I was trying to sweep was often not behind me (they had no steering). but often off to the side too. This was making sweeping quite difficult and not how things normally work. Catching the bunch it was only at the last minute that I was pulled across into the bunch line and draft. Today after a ride I was riding with two people who had steering but were not using it, and they were following each other but most of the time I was out on my own, at times well away from them and not getting any draft at all. Has something changed? This is not an improvement, or is this some sort of new bug??
This is the new Pace Dynamics 5. They are talking about it here:
This improvement is apparently all for racing to slow things down.
It’s for these reasons I prefer to ride alone in Zwift.
Ok thanks Chris. I will read up on it. Seems to need some work, or everyone needs to have steering.
Fear not, as they’re suffering from the same issues, or worse… (disabling steering for the rides I lead doesn’t even seem to work. Disabling steering on official rides still allows steering to function from my testing this past week).
At this point in time however, we’re really just waiting on a statement from anyone at ZHQ as to what’s going on with it, what it’s trying to accomplish, or quite simply, it’s existence.
Thus, as it stands, most commentary on the subject is general [negative] confusion while we await an explanation.