I was riding XP Express yesterday, hanging with the same group for the first 30 minutes and then I took a coffee break. For the first bit it worked fine, I held my place, but then we passed a slower rider on the course. Instead of staying with the group I was with, I attached to the slower rider, and had to end my break early to chase the group I was with originally.
Yeah it seems to randomly switch to some other rider sometimes. I see this when I am group ride sweeping, there is just me and one other rider using coffee break. We go flying up the road together until we reach a slow moving rider and then sometimes the person attached to me switches to the other person, ending the chase. I’ve pointed this out a few times but they’ve never responded with an explanation of how it’s supposed to work, or if it’s a bug.
down with coffee breaks! just kidding
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yeah this seems like it is working perfectly 
… especially if you are trying to skip a climb using the coffee stop then you should get stuck with the slowest person.
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I kind of like that idea for Coffee breaks, you are perfectly good using them, but they will pin you to the slowest user around you.
Brings a bit of jeopardy to its usage
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Yup, I’m down with coffee breaks 
That wouldn’t be bad, if they pinned you at the time you activated it. It would be downright annoying to take a break while riding with C Coco, pass someone who just finished/started (moving at <1w/kg), and all of a sudden you are basically stopped.
Maybe don’t have a coffee break when you’re supposed to be riding. Last time I checked the ride was for riders & not Klingons.
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but you can transport right back to coco, or any of your followers that are riding… so not really an issue at all
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this always makes me laugh when I see people activate coffee stop as soon as even a small hill shows up and you look at their distance covered on the riders nearby list and it is like 8 miles
Oh look another thread for people who think coffee break users should be punished. Happily those views are consistently ignored.
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Yeah, it’s a feature of Zwift, just like a power-up, it’s not like it’s one of the tricks being used to crank out serious km without riding. If someone gets upset that I gained a whole 1.5 -2k on a ride, they might just have other problems that they need to deal with.
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Thanks, Dad.
I did the Pride
Ride yesterday, one guy started a coffee break in the 1st 15 seconds man😳
You’re welcome. Don’t forget, you can always use the Just Watch feature if it gets too much.
There’s also a way to switch off the ‘Belittle Other People’ feature. It’s part of the ‘Not Everyone Should Be Just Like Me’ update they rolled out a while ago.
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I’ve done that when I forgot my water bottle. Was very glad to have the option.
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I’ve done that, I just got off & tried hard to catch up.
Dry your eyes mate, put some of that anger you have into riding.
Tell me again how people using coffee breaks is driving you to complain about it here?