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Please start using Mywhoosh? Being allergic to subscriptions, and finding Zwift to be awfully bad given:
- how long they've been around (I recommend the interview of the CEO by DC Rainmaker, the CEO is an epic clown, it's pretty amazing),
- how little they've innovated since inception (the graphics and 90% of the UI is THE SAME since day 1 (again, see the interview)),
- and how much money they've burnt,
i've tried a few alternatives.

I think Mywhoosh has now reached a point when what it's missing most is users. I wish they'd pay me to say that, i'd happily shill for a totalitarian regime, but they dont.

The graphics are much better than Zwift. I havent used it much, probably just under 10x, and it's buggy in various ways (for example sometimes you can overlap with another user, instead of moving to the side), the UI is pretty confusing because they have coins, and then 2 other types of coins that aren't coins, and you have to click to unlock things and what not, but it's honestly working quite well now. They added a ton of routes, worlds, and challenges, so it's gamified quite well. The aerodynamics modeling is rather dubious, which irritates me, but then again, the whole thing's free.

Interestingly, the training section seems much better than Zwift's. I havent tried one yet, but i browsed a bit, and it looks legit. I will probably follow a plan to try it out.

While i'm considering a trainer road subscription because i do think that personalized coaching is valuable, what you get from Zwift for the money they charge is, i think, a bottomless pit.

You will own nothing and be happy
The beatings will continue until morale improves.


September 23, 2024, 12:40:13 PM 		1
Re: Please start using Mywhoosh? Seconded. I've used mywhoosh and indievelo a bunch last year when my (third) zwift free trial ended and they're great. By far my biggest complaints for both was how lonely I felt being surrounded by bots or just alone in the world. I think I slightly prefer indievelo as you don't need the windows store and it ran better, but they're both great. Fuck the subscription economy
September 24, 2024, 01:06:40 PM 		1
Re: Frame req? (Aero, dropped SS, high stack, short reach)
Quote from: hendemic on February 12, 2025, 10:10:09 AM
73deg seatpost is frustrating for those of us with short femurs! The frame looks great, but I need something steeper :(
Unfortunately it's even slacker for the 58! I'm not sure why frame makers do this... A tall rider ends up sitting way back over the rear wheel. Best I can hope for is an inline or forward offset seatpost, but that's not ideal.
February 13, 2025, 01:33:34 PM 		1
Re: New frame 2025 : TFSA JH-35
Quote from: Gloopann on February 19, 2025, 07:24:33 AM
The link you showed clearly states that the rolling resistance goes down as tire size goes up, and we know that wide tires are more comfortable because you can run lower pressures and have the same air volume in the tire. Whether you feel that difference is up to you, but the physics doesn't lie. Wider tires have less rolling resistance and are more comfortable.

Now, it's possible that after a certain size we start losing speed again, but 32s aren't that size (NorCal Cycling tested 28, 32 and 34 and found that the 34s were slightly slower than 32s, they were on par with 28s, with the 32s being the fastest ).
Yes, RR goes down as tire size goes up if you keep the pressure the same. Nobody is running 32cs at 100psi. You buy bigger tires to run lower pressures, which the link shows makes RR worse at recommended pressures and about equal for equal comfort. So by extension, to actually improve on comfort from a smaller tire you are getting more RR. Along with more weight and aero drag at any pressure setting.

Plus in my experience the comfort improvement isn't huge, or at least not big enough to warrant the sluggish feel and losses. There aren't many wheel choices to get a 32c tire to hit the 105% rule for example. They straight up balloon on the 29-31mm wide wheels I have.

Im not saying people shouldnt buy 32c etc, do whatever you want........ just saying to temper expectations and have a full understanding of the costs and benefits.
February 19, 2025, 08:15:22 AM 		1
Re: New frame 2025 : TFSA JH-35 Maybe you are gonna build it up with 25-28c tyres now for a light weight climbing build, that's fine, but if I were to buy a new frame in 2025 I would like the opportunity to go wider than 30 mm in the future, even if I build it up narrower now. As rims are getting wider to, you also risk that even the stated 30c max width is getting problematic with a 30c tyre on a 25 mm internal rim width, and I don't see what you lose with a 28 mm tyre on a frame that max out on 32 and not 30 mm, so why limit the frame to max 30 mm?
February 19, 2025, 10:07:18 AM 		1