Sharing my setup, because this room has done more for my recovery than I expected.

After a pelvic injury and torn knee ligaments, I spent a long time watching Zwift races I couldn't ride. When physio got me back on the bike, I wanted a space that made me want to show up every day.

This is my pain cave, located in my condo garaged. What's in it:

• Zwift Ride. It's my second smart bike; the first was a cheap one (Bodytone) I regretted and sold. Waste of money lol
• A projector instead of a TV. The big screen makes the races feel a lot more real. It makes up to 250 inches.
• I run Zwift from an Apple TV
• Govee lights that I set up for racing, both on the floor and on the wall.

I've been on Zwift for 2 months now and my FTP is 203 W. I've also started a YouTube channel to document the journey:

https://www.youtube.com/@diogodias

What would you add or change? I'll probably get some smart fans in the upcoming weeks and I have to improve cable management.

For those who have not tried them yet.

Each Tour of Watopia stage offers both, and I have tried both.

If you have not tried these sort of things before, this is definitely the time as there are lots of participants - over 300 in the last group ride i did.

The group rides:

- you can do a coffee break.

- you can join late

- it is very mixed grade so don't try to stay with a group which is too hard.

- if you stay with an easier bunch you may pick up stragglers along the way - that could have been you!

The races:

- you are in a defined grade

- starts fast but then usually settles down

- always stay in the draft!

- if it has a hill you better be ready

- sprint at the end for places

If you are into stats, you can see some profile information on zwiftpower (group rides and races) or zwiftracing (racing only) if you register

warning - may be addictive, lol!

Zwift Epic Race on Sacre Bleu last weekend. All time 90 minutes PB (337w average; 4.36w/kg) to hang on to the front group until the finish, but legs were too dead for a proper kick in the end.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of animals one races on Zwift. It's not even like I wasted a lot of energy. Many did higher w/kg throughout the race. Chapeau to you guys!

I've shot it off the bike, spinning backwards. However, this happens on a normal ride too, and it's more frustrating and annoying when you hit it hard; it feels like you are breaking the cassette. This started happening recently. I've had the bike for more than a year; I had a similar issue before, and it fixed itself, but this time it hits harder and ruins all my rides—setup: Zwift Ride with Kickr Core 2. The cog is properly set; I tested different settings but got the same result. Please help or advise on how to proceed 🙏

Wanted to something “hard” out of respect for the beautiful warrior she is.

Rode 160.9km hard tempo. Never ridden 100 miles before. I am cooked, shakey, cramping, cooked.

I would rather ride 100miles than have heart surgery.

This one’s for her.

Pretty happy with 2.29W/kg

UPDATE - she is out of surgery (4hr or so), and recovering. Team will catch up with my wife later, but initial reports from recovery staff is everything has gone as well and as planned.

How much fitness will I loose? I really miss cycling and it’s not a possibility sadly I looked for a lot of options and I’m not willing to buy a trainer and a bike for the time being.
Renting one here is very far and I don’t have a car with me.
I’m in the gym and walking + running 2-3 times per week but I haven’t ran in 4 years so my legs are feeling it.
Any tip or advice for the comeback ?

I’ve got a full sus MTB that I was trying to sell, wasn’t happening so I’ve got a core 2 and intend to use it for Zwift for the time being. Does it make loads of difference what frame you actually use?

Zwift crashed on me twice this morning. I don't have an amazing gaming PC, it's just a Lenovo laptop, but it is more than good enough to run Zwift. However, probably about once a month it will crash for no really apparent reason.

Today, no other apps were running except Zwift and Spotify and after about 15-18 mins it just crashed. I opened it up again, started again and it did exactly the same thing. Both times were on the new Wattopia routes. For the third time, I opened it and did climb of the week instead. This time it worked for 25 mins or so before I was done.

Anyway, after all that waffle... What can I do to avoid this, are there settings I can change, things I can disable? Should I write to Zwift?

I’m doing Stage 4 of ToW and noticed two small airplanes glitching in the sky around km 5–6 of Pacific Pursuit, near what I believe is called Caldera.

Has anyone else seen this, or am I going crazy?

I live in Evergreen Colorado and I just upgraded to a Zwift Ride setup for indoors. I used this direct drive trainer for several years with one of my older bikes. I had a few issues with the old bike (not the trainer) so I upgraded to the dedicated indoor Zwift Ride. I just want to pass it on to someone who will enjoy it. I still have it set up and am happy to demonstrate it if needed. Would prefer not to ship it, so I’m hoping someone in the Denver or Evergreen area can come get it.

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I started my VE adventure in November 2025 (it was on one of our ve BOOTCAMP sessions) because my partner in crime Fat 🍍said it would be “fun”. I felt good so kept going hence my first VE.
Fat 🍍 and I enjoy dark places aka challenges 🤷🏻‍♀️. Oct 25 this last Sunday was my 16th VE and 2nd 10k on The Grade… my one year anniversary since1st VE is Nov 9th. I’m hoping this body will allow me to do one more for this year. Our club Torturefest Cult specializes in extreme climbing. We are always scheming 😈 plans for our cult.
Dec 29, 2026 will be our annual global VE Day with 9 different time zones. Alpe paced climbs every Saturday 8am CT. VE Basecamp BOOTCAMP every other Sunday and next one is Nov 8th. US AND UK TZ. Do what you can at your own speed. We will help guide you to one of your biggest challenges on Zwift 💪🏻

Fat Piggy 🐷

Guten Morgen

Ich nutze seit 4 Wochen den Zwift mit kickr core 2. Soweit gefällt mir das setup und die App sehr gut.
Leider habe ich starke Probleme damit mir ein Strukturiertes Training aufzubauen. Ich suche mir immer relativ planlos ein Workout aus, habe aber nicht das Gefühl, dass das auf dem letzen Workout aufbaut.
Ich verstehe auch nicht, dass wenn ich mir ein einstündiges Workout aussuche, ich mir dann auch noch die Strecke aussuchen muss, wobei die meisten Vorschläge zeitlich nicht zusammenpassen.
Kann mir jemand Hilfestellung geben?

Anyone else having issues with their rides uploading today? I did this ride and this is what it looks like on the Companion App. Nothing has uploaded to Garmin or Strava either.

I recently purchased a zwift ride , raced last night on it and the top of both my hamstrings are very sore, my set up looks good, any advice please

As in the title. I have had to buy a new Zwift Click system (because my 3 year old Click isn't working (it's out of the 2 year guarantee,). But I don't need a cog ... I just need a new Zwift Click button, I don't mind getting the v2, and I would rather just buy the Zwift Click v2 button directly from Zwift, but, I begrudge having to buy a cog, which I don't need.

Why don't Zwift sell the Click v2 buttons on their own? 🫤

My apartment is rather small and my Zwift Ride is literally next to my desk with the cockpit and handlebar at the edge of my table, taking up some shoulder space.

Can I remove the cockpit (handlebar - stem assembly) after every ride and assemble it only when I want to ride? Or will repeated assembly and disassembly damage it?

Thanks!

A bit of context first: I've only been on Zwift for about two months, and I was recently promoted to Cat D. So I'm still figuring a lot of this out.

Last night I did Stage 4 of the Tour of Watopia and honestly I felt really well on the bike.

I finished 21st out of 140, which I'm really happy with. I also got my best 20 minutes ever, 203 W. But when I looked at my heart rate afterwards I got a bit of a shock. I averaged 179 for 35 minutes and maxed at 192. In the final sprint I was at 189 and pushing 391 W, and I genuinely don't know where that came from.

The thing is, during the race I feel fine. I go with the attacks and I enjoy it. But after every hard surge my heart just doesn't come back down (or it does really slow), and I spend the next few minutes hanging on.

So I'm curious what you think. Is there anything good in a race like this, or is it just me burning myself out? And if you've had the same problem recovering between efforts, what actually helped?

I've added my Companion results and my Whoop data below. If you want to see how it actually went, here's the race in my channel: https://youtu.be/cK-dv4Dhvk8?si=4UTqmxmewEv3VHo0

Thanks, I appreciate any thoughts!

Just want to say yes I’m in my boxers and slippers lol I was trying to get this situated all night so sorry u have to even see that. My question is why are my pedals and gears doing this I just was doing a test ride since I just set this up today and it feels like if I’m not in a super high gear at all times there’s no resistance or pressure on the pedals. As soon as I drop gears it’s like I can’t even pedal correctly it looses all its tension and only way for me to feel anything is sitting in a high gear the whole time what am I doing wrong or what do I need to fix cause it does not feel normal and there’s no way I can ride like this.

Trying to build endurance for a bike tour. I enjoy short, intense rides in Zwift, but long rides indoors are deadly. What do you all do to make it less tedious? TV? Podcasts? Tequila and weed?

258W final 2hr15 post blowup at 7hr mark (after first 7h at 247)

I’ve decided this is the year to get into zwifting but not sure which trainer to go for. I could get a second hand wahoo kickr core 1 for $600cad or spend a few hundred extra and get a jet black victory brand new. Does anyone have any experience with either or both? Does it even matter? Should I spend my time pondering more important matters in life? Please help.

Hey guys. New to Zwift and went all in. Got the Zwift bike set up in the garage. I run Zwift off my iPhone and screen mirror it to the tv. I noticed that it’s laggy on the tv. I bought a wifi extender and now the wifi is solid in the garage but it’s still laggy on the tv. I’m running on spectrums 1gb/ps plan. What do you guys recommend?