Zwift Ride While Standing

Bugs and Support
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Hello everyone!

Problem description:

1. When I try to ride out of the saddle on my Zwift ride, I constantly feel like I’m pedaling into thin air. The lower the wattage, the more pronounced the problem.

2. During workouts, I’m often prompted to alternate between sprints and recovery phases (345W, 110W, 345W…). When I pedal hard to reach the higher wattage, the wattage fluctuates between (approximately) 180 and 600 at a constant cadence. If I then need to get back to 110W, I have to wait a long time for the flywheel to settle down again. My pedaling during this time is “rewarded” with prompts to pedal harder at a higher cadence.

I’m already in written contact with Zwift regarding the first issue, but I keep getting passed from one employee to another, some of whom keep asking me the same questions over and over: Are the bolts tightened, the thru-axle secured, the adapter inserted correctly, the >1< set on the drive, the cranks tightened…?

I’ve done it all!

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Does anyone know a solution? Am I the only one with these problems? Is the behavior in Problem 2 normal and simply a result of the technology, which is just the way it is?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards, Sven

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Are you doing workouts in ERG mode?

3

Turn off ERG

4

Thank you very much for your reply!

This issue occurs in both ERG and Race modes.

5

You shouldn’t be standing during ERG workouts, keep a nice steady cadence (you can mostly ignore the cadence targets you see on screen).

If you are losing resistance during regular rides then thats a different issue. Enter a log file into trainerdx.com and it can help to identify if you are having connection dropouts and other issues.

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Thanks a lot—I think I’ll give trainerdx a try.

7

Says who?

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Says me, don’t @ me bro :joy:

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9

You might be surprised, one very strong rider I know would specifically do 5 minute intervals out of the saddle at steady high power and cadence.

Doing the intervals standing can be good training as well, it’s a good thing to get used to.

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I don’t usually stand up on the bike when I’m riding. But if the workout instructs me to do so and it doesn’t work, something must be wrong.
Before I swapped out the included saddle for a Selle Italia (130mm), it would have been quite nice to be able to stand up every now and then during longer rides. ;o)

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I think that it’s only the FTP test where you should stay seated, so that the result doesn’t get skewed.

Standing up in normal workouts should be fine if that suits the rider. It’s just that ERG mode can make that tricky with the lower cadence, e.g. you risk the spiral of death if you don’t handle the increased resistance at the lower cadence.

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