Understanding the Trainer Difficulty Slider

General Discussion
#21

Think this is right, basically you’d have to weigh well over 100kg before the Neo wouldn’t be able to provide enough resistance to accurately simulate the 16-17% maximum gradients in Zwift - and that’s assuming you’re at 100% trainer difficulty. Obviously anything lower than 100% is easier for the trainer to simulate anyway. You only need to adjust that slider if you want to, the realism isn’t dependent on your weight in this context.

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I’m sure @Shane_Miller_GPLama will correct me if this is horse plop. :rofl:

#22

Oh yes, that’s the video I watched. Not something I read.

Yes, then I got confused with this. Are you saying if 2 riders with different weight going up the same gradient. The trainer / zwift will send different breaking forces to the trainer?

#23

That’s right. Zwift sends your actual weight to the trainer to replace the 75kg default. This is irrespective of the trainer difficulty slider.

#24

The issue I am having is I have lost my slider bar and can’t generate any watts or speed. The trainer works fine in workout mode but not game mode or any organized rides. When I just use the Wahoo app I get more watts than I can handle. Not sure how to fix this

#25

If there’s no TD slider, you paired your trainer wrong.

Did you pair controllable with ANT+ FE-C or Bluetooth?

#26

Been using bluetooth. I think when my ride actually worked, I had my Garmin edge 520 also hooked up. I have not been running my edge, as it seemed redundant for mileage. I will try hooking it back up and running FE-C from Garmin Edge