Hi all, one month into Zwift and loving it. My only ‘issue’ appears to be that surely my settings cannot be right. I’ve won most races I enter but I’m new to cycling! I’m 77kg, 175cm 38yr old male. I’m pretty fit after years of football and running but seem to be going too quickly!! I bought a Schw…

Only way I know is to compare to a real power meter…for your IC8 that means power meter pedals. Or comparable to IRL with a power meter on a bike. For fun, not a big deal…well really, no issue at all. If, however, you decide to race…it becomes an issue.

I’ll look into grabbing a set of power meter pedals. I may be able to find some within the biking community here to borrow and see. How does it effect the racing side of it ? I’m new to Zwift so I haven’t heard anything about having a Schwinn bike and racing

An accepted power meter (pedals/crank/etc) or smart trainer (wahoo/tacx/elite/saris/etc) is needed for a lot of racing. For some non-power trainers (Fluid2/KurtKinetic fluids/etc) where a known power curve is applied, one races under “ZPower”. Some races do not allow ZPower; you must have a known …

Hi LBreezy and all Thanks for this interesting discussion. Because I was frustrated about the power output of the IC 800, I bought SRM power pedals and also found that the Swinn output is well above what the SRM power pedals show. I have not calibrated the bike. I used Wahoo SYSTM for measuring, bu…

Hi Riccardo I am happy to share some power output readings from my SRM power pedals to get you to some new formula, if you are interested. Best, Mark

Hi @mark_star Welcome to the forum. You could record with a seperate device and use the two fit files in zwiftpower.com to analyze the data. (ie. Spin Bike to Garmin and SRM to Zwift)

You say that you connect the trainer to the controllable tab in zwift. But your trainer is not controllable. Isn’t that the issue? You need to connect the power meter, speed and cadance sensor.

[image] Rafael: You need to connect the power meter, speed and cadance sensor. :thinking: if you have a power meter you dont need a speed sensor, and cadence is nice to have but not required

Hi all ! As this thread really helped me I thought I would contribute and tell my story with this spin bike. I bought mine mid-september as I needed to get back in shape after big changes in my life : becoming a father and buying a house. I needed a quiet way of zwifting and my wife wanted to be ab…

Bowflex c7 owner here, which is pretty much the same bike as the scwhinn but with a connected tablet. It’s gotten a more than a handful of updates since purchasing it nov '21 but most seem to be entertainment updates for disney/prime etc. I’ve been using it for workouts for about a year now on zwit…

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Milan_Rost (Milan) January 29, 2023, 5:58pm 374

Don’t want to be offensive, but I feel it is a disadvantage to race against spin bikes (= Zpower) with my Neo and power meter.

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