Since latest update Dec 2024 virtual gearing resistance has changed for me. Where as I could ride in 14th gear on the flat easy I now find it hard to ride in 10th gear and when I change up a gear say to 11th it is not smooth like it was before there is a big resistance before I get into the gear. Anyone have this problem. It has taken away my enjoyment as I do not have a smooth ride like I have done before this update and for most of my riding through this year.
HI @Barry_Hambly welcome to Zwift forums and happy holidays!
Shuji at Zwift HQ here. I looked at your server logs and noticed your Ride controllers have never been updated. They’re still on the factory firmware v 1.0.0, and current version is 1.2.0. Please update the controllers using the Zwift Companion app. Instructions here.
Your KICKR v6’s firmware is also slightly out of date. Yours is on v 5.3.47. Instructions on Wahoo’s support site here.
Please do both of those updates, power cycle your trainer and Ride, reboot your PC, and let us know if that solves it / not next time you log in?
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Hey Barry I’m having the same issue now with my virtual gearing had my new kickr core from about October and was pulling between gears 14-17 on the flat now gear between 10-13 are feeling hard to pulling and going up to around gear 20 feels impossible.
Done a club ladder match tonight and it felt totally crap, not sure what’s gone on.
Hi Chris I am not sure but since I posted this mine has come back to being OK I think ? I have now update all firmware to see if that makes a difference. It is odd but once or twice before when I joined a pacer group I had a problem with to much resistance but it came right again next time I did nothing so don’t know why. Sorry I don’t have answers only make sure firmware is up to date hope yours comes back like mine did I am not sure it is quite the same but I have only done to races since.
Came back by its self but I have updated firmware now
Thank you
Hey Barry all my firmware is up to date according to what it tells me in the companion app and also my kickr on the wahoo app, done a spin down seemed ok but then went back to gears being all over the place.
Seems to be if I do a workout and use erg mode then go into any sort of free ride/ pacer group ride or race then virtual gears not right. There’s definitely some sort of bug appeared from some sort of update they’ve done somewhere.
Hopefully mine will come back right by itself or I might just have to sack the Zwift play virtual gearing off and go back to using a cassette on the trainer.
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