Elite Suito-T / Zwift Cog / Click V2 - Virtual gearing?

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Hello.

Last week I bought the Zwift Cog (Elite) and The Zwift Click V2.

First impression is that the click is really good. The cog is silent and running smooth. However, the virtual gearing is a little bit wierd?

I only using the gear 18-24 because the other gears are to easy.

My setup is a Elite Suito-T and the firmware is updated. Running on the small chainring in front (Zwift Recommendations) I have calibrated the trainer in Elites application.

Is something wrong? Does anyone else have this problem or knows a solution?

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Support will probably ask whether the Elite firmware is actually up to date, or perhaps not, because the user made a mistake. On my Direto XR, even gear 20 is very difficult, and gear 24 is only usable for a few seconds at over 1000 watts.

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Like i wrote in my first statement.

Firmware is the latest update and I have done it using the Eliteupgrado app.

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What do you mean user made a mistake? Is it even possible to mess this up?

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Hello, How do you make the upgrade of the Elite Suito-T ? I don’t succeed to do it.

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It used to work perfectly with my former Suito (with Zwift ride).

the problem was that with virtual shifting, it increases the resistance and a lot of metallic / knocking noises happened.

Upgraded to Justo and it’s terrible. Even Gear 1 is too hard. And Elite cannot help, considering it is a « normal » behaviour :roll_eyes: hopefully I can get a refund, never again an elite trainer. Their brand name is not matching reality.

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So it worked fine with your Suito?

With the virtual gearing?

:thinking:

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Yes, at least the virtual shifting was working pretty well with my unit.

But not with my new Justo.

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Alright.

I just use gears 19-24 and thats it. I dont know why the others is so easy.s..

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Élite trainers quality is super random.

At least you can use some gears. I now have a single speed as the resistance is too hard.

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Put the trainer Difficulty setting at 100, and then do a climb portal with a +13% gradient. You’ll use other virtual gears if you try this.

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When in freeride om my Justo 2, i put my bike in the large chainring in the front. Then i have more range in gearing.
The downside is that the trainer struggle to go below about 100watts in about 80rpm. (I think i have a 50 tooth large chainring in the front.)

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Hello @Kristofer_Boden welcome to Zwift forums.
Shuji at Zwift HQ here.

Many Elite trainer users report the opposite problem - that the resistance “floor” is too high and they can’t find an easy enough gear when they want to soft pedal.

You may want to try using your bike’s larger chainring as @Morten_Romslo_YACK suggested. It’s important to do this before you launch Zwift.

That’s because your virtual gearing is determined only once per session - when you choose a route and spawn in the world, you might feel the resistance “stutter” a little bit while you pedal. That’s the feeling when the game is calculating what physical gears are on your bike through the pedal RPMs and trainer’s flywheel velocity.

Please try using the large chainring and let us know if that solves this for you?

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Hello Shuji!

Thanks for the quick answer. I will try this tonight when i will be zwifting.
I hope you are right. Yesterday i tried to sprint on the highest virtual gear (gear 24) and i went up to 496 watts and about 100 rpm and that should be a lot tougher.

I will respond to this thread again after i have tested the large chainring! Thank you again! :slight_smile:

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Correct. I was on 50% difficulty. When on 100% i have to use more gears. :flexed_biceps:

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What upgrade do you mean? :slight_smile:

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As @shooj wrote, i will try to do this and see if it gets any better! :slight_smile:

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Alright! I think we have a solution.

I have changed to the large chainring in front. This works a lot better in game now. A little more noise from the chain as It does not goes as straight as it was on the smaller chainring. But ill take it! Thanks all!

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