Since a while a have a strange issue with Zwift, I have to deliver more power than the rest of the blob to keep up.
Most of the time I do D group ride’s from 1.8 to 2.2 w/Kg.
My length is 182 cm and my weight is 75 kg, both are entered correct in my zwift profile.
In Zwift I ride on a Scott addict RC, so no TT bike.
On the flats i need to do about 0.3 - 0.5 W/Kg more to stay up in the middle of the blob.
Downhill when the riders around me are doing 1.8 - 2.2 W/kg id need to do + 3.3 w/Kg to keep up.
According to zwift power I should be riding C rides (2,79 W/kg) but when I join a C ride 2.5 - 2.8 I can’t even keep up.
It is downhill, that i need to do more than 1.5 w/kg to keep up.
You would expect that downhill would feel lighter than uphill, but that isn’t true for me.
This is an interesting observation. Have you tried different trainer difficulty settings in the zwift menu? Maybe try it at 50% and see if there is a difference.
But from everything I read from it, it should not make any difference.
For the uphill it would change the frequency of shifting if i’m correct.
For downhill the Tacx Neo 2t will only give 50% of the downhill assistance if i’m correct.
Check Zwiftalizer (website) and analyse your logfile is there. Zwift is buggy when your machine doesn’t run smoothly as then it might not recognize other riders being there and thus doesn’t provide you draft. Should be visible in low fps with the analyzer.
i have to change gear for a 1% incline @ 50% XD
multiple times for 6%
something sounds bodged with ur trainer cos it costs way more than mine and has way higher max. resistance. or maybe that’s part of the problem - cos 6% is nothing compared to ur trainers max of 25%. dno.
p.s. they alrdy do use different difficulties for uphill and downhill, downhill is only 50% of the stated gradient (so u dont spin out at high % difficulty cos resistance goes too ez).
Have you by any chance been using ERG in Zwift recently? Zwift always worked correctly for me until I applied ERG. Afterwards it seemed as if that setting continued to work partially. I weigh 88kg-90kg (195-200 pounds) and have to pedal hard uphill. However, after using ERG, the feeling of slopes no longer matched. Sometimes I had to pedal harder downhill than uphill. In the Fuego flats there are a few gentle slopes and it felt that they were moved and popped up where the flat was supposed to be. That lasted for several days and I had already tried in all sorts of ways to remedy it. It eventually disappeared for no apparent reason.