There was a fairly large group doing the same thing on Ven-Top this morning, one rider parked and the others all teleporting. Not sure how they would get factory Tour credits putting out 0.0 power over and over. Maybe only upgrading bikes?
I late joined like crazy last year (5 spins in one event was my max, iirc), but I didnāt know you didnāt have to have a paired power source. Was the idea that youād join and hope you were close enough to the end to let the auto pedal assist carry you across the line?
Probably going for distance unlocks for bike upgrades.
That loophole has been around for years but wasnāt really important. Now it is - because they all want the upgrades as fast as possible.
I donāt disagree with you.
I feel anyone who has ridden u should be able to test and Coast.
Thatās why I said to have a time limit equal to the time it takes to Coast down.
Thereās really no reason the session needs to end, just stop the timer.
Some people like to sit on the Alp to try a see the Yeti and thatās great.
I just donāt think sitting there should count as time on a TT bike
Teleports are a different issue and I have no real suggestions
Yep, I did that a few times.
It was fun breaking the rules but last year it was just for spin prizes.
There was nothing that would impact racing.
I did that several times, especially when the Big Spin was in Paris.
The pedal assist, combined with the downhill finish brought me over the line a few times just barely moving, but it was enough to get a spin of the wheel.
A rider came zipping through the pack on Big Spin today just past Downtown, riding the BMX, lightning socks ablaze. Didnāt catch any details (name, power, late join, etc).
Is it possible to complete a ride and your total on the challenge not increase?
seems likely if your power is low, weight is high, and duration/time is short
Thanks. I guess Iām not getting my head around how it works. Seems as though any hour long ride will increase the accrued total some. No?
you can do the calculation yourself and see what you would get:
2. What is a Power Unit?
- Power Unit equals āwatt-hours per kilogram.ā It is your average power output for a 60 minute ride divided by your weight in kilograms. Ex: If you averaged 195 watts over an hour and you weigh 65 kg, your Wh/kg is 3.0. The challenge tracks the total power you produce across your rides, and you need to hit the required amount over time to make progress.
A 90 minute ride at 1.5W/kg will get you 1.5W/kg * 1.5 hours for 2.25 units credit for that duration, like what we do on Sundays. 1.5*1.5=2.25.
If you do 1W/kg for 1 hour, you will get 1 unit.
If you do 2W/kg for 1 hour, you will get 2 units.
If you do 1W/kg for 1/2 hour, you will get 0.5 units.
If you do 2W/kg for 1/2 hour, you will get 1 unit.
It is a power-multiplied-by-time function. You can increase your power to increase rate of unit accrual per minute. You can increase your time to increase accrual per session.
Riding with Taylor at 1.1W/kg for 4 hours will generate 4.4 units.
Riding with Maria at 2.2W/kg for 4 hours will generate 8.8 units.
The calculations aforementioned are based on you achieving that power during that time (not the bots, other Ride Leaders, etcā¦)
More āefficientā bikes or better drafting will accrue fewer power units at the same virtual speed as less efficient bikes or no drafting will.
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Thanks Greg. You are the man!
So obviously the answer to my question is no. Any ride will produce an increase. Itās just that a slow, weak, fat guy like me can generate fractions during a ride. The tally wonāt appear to increase (points or percentage) on that ride but it does.
Excellent explanation. Thank you for taking the time.
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Just to rule out other potential issues: do you use Zwift on more than one device? If you, be sure you are completely logged out of whichever device you are not using (including force-closing the app if you are on a tablet, phone, or Apple TV). Having concurrent Zwift logins might result in no recorded Factory Tour progress.
Edit: if this is the case, you would likely also not be showing increases in Drops or XP.
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I would like to know how many cyclists have gained the full aero socks?
My goal is to possibly hit the first step of 250 by July 4 (four months), then eight or nine more months to hit the 850. A year is a long, long time to save one watt per hour. I will probably loose that much to getting a year older.
What is every readerās time table?
Believe Beate Lang had them ages agoā¦ 
Cat Allen I think had them legitimately also some time ago. Iām about 300 away from 850 myself.
It appears the way to go quickly with that challenge is do plenty of longer workout modes or long robopacer rides with the fast robopacers like Genie or Constance. Mountainous rides with easy descents are bad.
Try to make an extra 15-30min of riding time on Zwift and youāll be surprised, it adds up. Little bits more here and there.
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Should have these tomorrow, reached 99% today.
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I donāt think Iāll be too far, when I skimmed by earlier this week I noticed I was at 830/850, where Iām at today Iām unsure, but I imagine Iām a week or two away.
I actually kind of put this so far down my list on things to work towards as far as challenges goes on Zwift. Though to be fair, the only āinterestingā challenge to me was unlocking the Concept bike; the others were just as not-interesting.
But yeah, workouts and higher pace rides and this gets knocked out decently quick; I too expected this to be a year-long challenge, so Iām equally surprised Iām near completion.
I think itās worth noting how this challenge sets up limits as well.
Doing extremely long rides is not beneficial in any way for this due to the per activity limit. So you could be doing more harm actually, if you do longer sessions, versus .. more smaller ones.
It especially seems to rip by the more sweet spot stuff you can manage; nothing but recovery pace is certainly going to take forever.
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the cap is 15 per activityā¦ so at 2.5 w/kg average that would take 6 hours. I think the workaround is stop, save, start a new oneā¦ if you need to do more than 5 or 6 hours (which is crazy btw 
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doh; guess I didnāt actually do the math; I early on made the assumption 2 hours would be roughly the limit for most folks; and then ingrained that in my head lol
Well, at least it slows down the bots on all the concept bikes! ā¦ (not really)