I predict overnight it will much less crowded. Especially if it becomes a lot slower.
Every day I ride through part of the jungle and it is always nearly empty in comparison to the paved tarmac sections of Watopia. Always few riders and big gaps between them. That is strange given how much people claim to love the jungle.
Leave out the drops increase and then see if people like the gravel route on its own.
Alternatively set up a 5km slow undulating gravel section as the lead-in for Tempus Fugit that everyone gets to ride if they want to do Tempus. It could be a âwarmupâ. Iâll bet people would teleport to friends already on Tempus Fugit to avoid that.
Having to add incentives means that the route probably wouldnât be popular otherwise. Most popular will nearly always be flattest and fastest. Tempus will always be more popular than the jungle for instance.
Climbing is pretty unpopular - compare the big climbs like Ventop and ADZ to Tempus. Even the smaller ones like the Grade or Epic KOM.
Itâs a huge traffic jam of riders on Tempus in comparison. Even with the drops increase on the mountain routes. And people use ERG mode to avoid the gradient changes on ADZ (even seen people say that). Alpe is still fairly empty by comparison to the flattest routes. If there was a count of the numbers per day on each route, Tempus will easily be much higher.
The only time Iâve seen the big climbs being very popular has been for teleporting to the top and descending for miles or bike upgrades. When that got blocked, those people disappeared.
Would there be many objections to retiring both ADZ and Ventop to climb portals and replacing them with flat routes? I doubt it.
Thats not really what I would call a gritty route. With around 70% of the route being tarmac there isnt any reason to take a gravel bike there with the CDA changes on gravel to the road bikes you did a year or two ago and there is too much uphill gravel so the road bikies will hate it also.
I wasnât explicit enough, sorry. What I meant was that I updated from Zwift 1.109 to 1.110.
It was Zwift launcher that did that update, actually. It is set to auto update Zwift in the background. So, it updated from 1.109 to 1.110 but launcher stayed at 1.1.14.
EDIT: My post is more to draw attention to the fact that the âminimum-requiredâ launcher is not updated in the update process automatically.
Same happened to me just now in 1.109. Finished the event, got a single black frame immediately before the big spin banner came up, when I manually quit the cooldown the sun was down instantly. Also, the light from the fire pots was very flickery
But gravel riding in the real world canât be simulated on an indoor platform so what is the point? Youâre not picking lines, youâre not getting the feeling of the surface bumpiness etc I ride gravel and mtb trails to have a feeling of the surface and have some handling skills over that terrain, you cannot get that on a turbo trainer
Well, depends how you look at it. There are no freeride-able routes without a badge, but there are 40(ish) event-only routes without a badge. And if I counted correctly 14 event-only that do have a badgeâŚ
