@@alfkh Best time of our lives then 🤗 in 5 weeks I'll be 52

@@LukasHridesbikes Need to try it this winter then 😅

@@buntysimmons2565 Thanks. That is amazing, I hope I can still ride when I am 79 👍

@@tophatlobster Nice to know 🙏

Thanks! It sure does...The real joy of cycling has started to come back with all this nice autumn rides.

@@musa9784 Oh! Thanks for the input...didn't actually cross my mind but I see what you mean.

@@mattiasgriot nor a big deal I enjoyed your video...

Kind of similar here in Sweden, rain every day but fortunately some sun occasionally. Mentioning mud, seems like you are riding MTB or Gravel, am I right?

@@mattiasgriot no I have a gazelle ultimate C380. It’s a hybrid e-bike which I ride on roads but also trails. It gets muddy on the trails especially after several days of rain.

Thanks 🙏 Good addition to the list, totally agree. What bag do you use?

Depending on road and weather conditions, the forecast, and my ride plan (distance, duration, and elevation variables and choices), there are two bags from which I will select one. For the smaller scale rides, I use the Osprey Savu 5 which fits around my waist. For the larger scale rides, I use an Osprey Syncro 12 which fits on my back. Both are specifically designed for cycling and, as a road cyclist, they effectively and comfortibly serve me well.

just to add that a rear jersey pocket and carry a folded light jacket if you dont want to add a bag.. i do this so my radar unit stays in the clear. a half frame bag would be my choice if i had to add one.

No worries, nice with a long comment 😊 Thanks. In my unedited version I actually talked about full mudguards in the back with a "kompislapp" as it is called in Swedish (friend patch directly translated, the extender at the end of the mudguard in the back. However I cut it away in the final edit.... Pissei is the clothing team UAE uses. The helmet visor, is it generic or for a specific helmet?

@@mattiasgriot The visor is home-made from metal washers glued/screwed to the helmet and neodymium magnets on the plastic visor. I must admit that I'm still looking for the perfect clear, flexible, easily cut plastic.

@@roadcyclist1 He??? I realised my error after a while so corrected it...but thanks for the comment!

@@oldanslo 😅😅 True

@@anderssjoberg Oj, i våras 85-86kg...så det går lite segt uppför 🫣

Agree 👍

Yes, had some issues with that too but I have an ok laptop but nothing fancy.

Might well be so but still not the gradients as El Limonar

Maybe need to try one! Do you use one?

@@mattiasgriot Yes, it's amazing. It's a knockoff of the latest 400 dollar 3D printed saddles, except its more comfortable being plastic and cromoly instead of full carbon. I had the foam version of the Fizik Argo Tempo which is what the Ryet is a copy of, and there is no comparison, the Ryet is way better in reducing pressure.

😅 Ha, ha...looks like it..but only quite a normal Swedish basement in an apartment building.

@@mattiasgriot is it true that Sweeden has less blue eye, blonde people now in 2024?

It's just a question of gearing. If you had low enough gears you could spin at 120 cadence on a 20% gradient. Same as if you try to remove bike pedals with a short wrench vs a long breaker bar, the latter makes the bolt as easy to turn as a 5nm bolt on a saddle post or whatever. All zwift did was give an option so you don't need to put really low gearing on the bike - it's a sane option, it's the same as bike manufacturers putting 9 then 10 then 11 then 12 gears - all of these are the 'trainer difficulty' setting for real life. If you use 11 or 12 speed bike then you made it easy to climb gradients without stomping compared with the past when cyclists had fewer gears. Now that zwift has virtual gearing you can see how the gearing that provides is wide enough to make any hill easy to climb. You can use it and see what a bike would feel like if you had wide enough gearing. And the result is, spinning while you climb is perfectly possible if you pick a low enough gear. If you still don't believe it, put your bike in the biggest gear and ride on the flat - and if you can spin that, get a fixie with 100 gear inches and try. You have to stomp on the flat in a big gear because the resistance is high - exactly the same as climbing in too big a gear. Indeed virtual gearing just adjusts the trainer resistance. Go and do some track cycling and see how much force they need to get a fixed gear bike off the starting line and then tell them they need to climb to get strong legs. When they've stopped laughing apologise and go home.

True!

Good point 👌. Though going out a bit unplanned has it's charm it is always good to have a base plan.

Yes 😜 👍

Fully agree. I got a new indoor bike over Christmas and had TD on 100% up until ydays ride. Prior, I had my old indoor bike on about 35/40% TD. Old bike time up AdZ - 42min New bike time up AdZ - 58min. Night and day difference. You’ve still got to put the watts out but on 100% TD I’ve been struggling to do so. Don’t know why. Old bike pace group was A. New bike pace group is B haha. I feel like my FTP is a myth right now. Hoping now I’ve dropped TD on my new bike I’ll stop struggling. Someone explained TD to me like you feel every single bump on 100% so that’s why it’ll feel more taxing (even though watts are watts) haha it’s a mad one.

I seem to shift a hell of a lot more on 100% too. Probably because of “every bump”. Who knows

@@F1TZGER4LD I noticed that too. Like real life I suppose

@@F1TZGER4LD yea for me running a 53/39 sweet spot is around 80% anything higher either my Turbo struggles or am grinding. But the resistance changes so it's harder to put the watts down for sure. Like going into a headwind pushing the watts or having a tailwind pushing the watts. As you say watts are watts but resistance is different so it's harder. Thats my take on it anyway 😂

@@benturp3492 I definitely agree mate. I came on this video to look for your exact comment 😂 buzzing I found it. Now I can stop feeling guilty or like I’m cheating by lowering my TD 😅😂

Sorry, I still struggle to find my rhythm doing talking head into camera. Usually I think I speak too slow.

For him maybe. For me, absolutely fine 👍 thanks for the vid

But you only get half the training then 😜. Seriously though, it would be good to do it that way maybe, if your trainer supports sending double signals

Agree!

I have mine set at 60% to reduce number of gear changes. I just don't allow myself to use the easier gears.

Agreed. I used to be a 100% TD diehard but I've found for just riding around on Zwift, 50-75% seems pretty good. 100% is great to train for spinning or grinding up climbs (36/32 at 100% TD is no fun going up Ventoux). Even then, I'll back it off and just not use the biggest cog or two to keep the trainer spinning and overheating. 85kg going up a 10% grade for an hour really taxes the trainer.

Didn't think of that at first 🙄, but realised it when I started climbing. So did it again in normal mode

Sorry, my bad. I wrote it while watching your video and posted right before you realized it didn’t change the gradient 😂

It's the same. You can choose gears that mean you're doing 300w at 50 cadence on the flat, or a gear that means you're doing 300w at 100 cadence climbing - the climbing will feel less resistance and, for most people 'easier' to push the pedals. The only reason you find it tough to climb IRL is because your bike is overgeared for your ability. It perhaps also because cyclists tend to hit a certain speed on the flat and coast or light pedal, especially if they have a bit of a tail wind. So most of their time on the flat is at a low power in an easy gear. There's very little point (unless you're doing a time trial or something) in doing a massive wattage on the flat because aero means you'd only gain a few extra mph for a ton more effort. When you get to a climb and the bike slows to a crawl you put some effort in and that, combined with having insufficient gears is why you associate climbing with low cadence and high resistance. The other main reason why climbing is tough IRL is when you go to a mountain and end up at altitude because there's less oxygen, well zwift can't simulate that - but you'll notice most of the gradients in the mountains are not that extreme anyway - people building roads up mountains zig zag up so it is less steep. In places where there are only short hills (e.g the UK) they tend to go straight over the top and that means some short, but very steep gradients - few, if any, road bikes are sold with gearing suitable for these and that's why you see cyclists every week standing and stomping their way up these hills. That's not climbing, that's bad gearing - and it's not making you stronger by doing that - a bicycle is not gym equipment, you'd be much better going to a gym and doing squats if you want to build leg muscles with high resistance than trying to ride along in the wrong gear. This is why groupset manufacturers are adding more cogs - because it's been established for decades now that it's faster to climb with lower gears than to struggle turning a bigger one - and since that day they've been adding more and more sprockets. Well skip to zwift and they can show you what climbing would be like if you had the right gearing - and they can do that 2 ways now, with trainer difficulty setting and with the newer virtual gearing. Try the latter if you think the trainer difficulty too confusing to understand. You'll see the virtual gearing makes it easy to spin up a 12% or higher - equally though try the hardest virtual gear on the flat. That's what gearing is for. That's why a wrench has a long lever - so you can turn both using a lower force - the penalty, of course, the back wheel turns less each revolution and the bike inches slowly up the climb. But you can do a low cadence and a high resistance on the flat in zwift and IRL. You can also (with zwift's virtual gearing) use a really easy gear on any of zwift's climbs and spin your way up at 120 cadence. Another way of trying this, get a short 8mm hex wrench and try and remove your pedal - tough to turn eh? High resistance. Now get a breaker bar or pedal wrench and try - now the bolt turns easily. That's what gearing is. It makes it easy to turn the pedals - except when you bought your bike you figured you were stronger than you are and got the wrong ones. Put lower gearing on your bike and spin up the hills. And specifically if you're like OP and breaking into a sweat and dying at 200watts - then you should be at subcompact levels or lower on a road bike, but the shop sells pretty much the same gearing to everyone that walks into the store regardless of their age or where they live and ride - and then you take that bike to zwift and try to climb up a mountain on it and wonder why you can only eek out 50 cadence at 200 watts in your lowest gear. Well because your bike gearing is way, way too high for you - and zwift put in an option so you don't have to buy a new bike. Then confused viewers decided this option must be cheating or making climbing feel wrong - no, it's what your road bike would feel like if you had the right gearing on it to match the hills you climb and how much power you can generate.

Hello! 👍 Nice, thanks for connecting. Where are you from?

@@mattiasgriot I’m from Oslo, Norway🙂

Yes, agree. It is a game and an aid to get training done. What difficulty you use is and should be up to you (even if you race on Zwift)

True 👍

Great to hear, thanks!

Thanks for commenting. Nice to get different opinions and viewpoints 👍 Do you use Zwift?

Yes, the information is quite sparse, I talked about the non existent info of the levelling system in the video. MyWhoosh have some work to do on the user side, while Zwift seems to have some trouble in other areas.

Yes agree, quite empty. Also the rendering in the app was a bit sketchy, maybe hardware issue but Zwift is more stable. Did a route in Belgium and one in Australia and they almost felt the same graphically. As long as it is free it is an ok alternative if you don't want to pay for Zwift during the summer.

Greenwashing for UAE...

Thanks, yes 27 nice subscribers...😍

Yes, it was 👍 These local events are nice. Cold....but nice

Thanks, appreciate your comment!

Yes, it is ok. Lack some functions for "serious" training though. Guess the Vantage is better in that aspect? Used the Unite on my bike for a little while but now I changed to a Garmin Edge.

@@mattiasgriot Vantage V is a flagship. Serious for sports.

Jonas Gross Har inte hunnit med att hårdtesta den som actionkamera. Dock använt den vid lite lugnare aktivitet såsom promenad. Ok bildkvalitet. Stabiliseringen sådär..bättre än utan men inte värt att köpa kameran utifrån stabiliseringen.