I put a new bike on my Kickr v6 with Cog v2 and the Play controllers. When I try to ride, I have resistance for about 30 seconds, and then the resistance goes away. I can see the virtual gears changing, though the resistance doesn’t change at all. I’ve never had a problem with Virtual Shifting until this change. When using ERG mode, everything works as expected. When I try to join an event or free ride, I feel no resistance change with Virtual Shifting. I can spin as fast as possible at about 30-50 watts no matter the gear. I’ve read through many different threads and tried spin downs, disconnecting and reconnecting, changing wheel size in the Wahoo app and nothing has worked. I’ve tried changing wheel size in the app while riding and that will momentarily add resistance back, though nothing has worked for longer than about 30 seconds.
You said after you changed wheel circumference the resistance did come back for 30s. Do you have any other devices connected to the KICKR ? Watch, Bike computer or anything else ?
I’ve turned off all devices to try to disconnect everything. I am able to get the flashing blue Bluetooth ready to pair light. I am using the Companion App to pair via Apple TV. I tried using a laptop and connect via Wifi and that didn’t work. The resistance is normal when I do an Erg Mode workout, so it seems like it is connected normally then. It only presents itself when I am trying to ride in anything other than a workout.
The “bug” is potentially something changing the wheel circumference of KICKR which is why that has been recommended as a fix in other threads. ERG mode doesn’t care about that setting which is why it un affected.
Try opening Wahoo App and starting a workout , change the mode to SIM mode and set the grade to something different, change it a few times and see if it works. Then change Wahoo App to passive and see if there is resistance in Zwift. This has also fixed it for some people.
Thanks so much for your thoughts. Should I do all that in the Wahoo app before opening Zwift?
You should be able to try that while Zwift is open and running.
I tried it and was getting quite delayed responses from the Kickr when I would change the resistance in the Wahoo app using SIM mode. It would work it just took a number of seconds for from the time I changed the resistance until it kicked in. I then tried Zwift and it worked for about 30 seconds then dropped off again. I would get a couple of second bursts of resistance though it pretty much went back to no resistance.
Just wondering but if you ride on Zwift with no Zwift controllers paired do you still have no resistance ?
If I turn virtual shifting off I do have resistance that seems to mirror the gradient.
Try this I don’t know if it will help or not but, re connect the plays then shift to harder gears and pedal as steady as possible at 75-80 RPM for about 1-2 min.
I tried riding at that cadence for a few minutes no real change resistance came on a couple times for a few seconds though overall wasn’t there. The cadence value jumped around too most of the time around 75 though at times read over 110 even when I didn’t change the cadence that much.
I tried using the click that came with the cog, not the new click. Resistance seemed to come in and out more. I could get it to trigger at higher gears though if I rode in anything less than about 15 I would just spin or the resistance would leave after a while in a higher gear. By no means did it work though I got resistance more consistently than with the play controllers. Not sure what this means…if anything?