As part of the tech team here at F-At Digital, senior product reviewer Stu spends the majority of his time writing in-depth reviews for road.cc, off-road.cc and ebiketips using the knowledge gained from testing over 1,500 pieces of kit (plus 100's of bikes) since starting out as a freelancer back in 2009. After first throwing his leg over a race bike back in 2000, Stu's ridden more than 170,000 miles on road, time-trial, track, and gravel bikes, and while he's put his racing days behind him, he still likes to smash the pedals rather than take things easy. With a background in design and engineering, he has an obsession with how things are developed and manufactured, has a borderline fetish for handbuilt metal frames and finds a rim braked road bike very aesthetically pleasing!
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These are the landing pages I use aside from the ODZ one
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZwiftRacers/ (more competitive bent)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/zwiftriders/ (slightly more general chatter these days)
Events on the pin tabs and on the shared calendars linked there, e.g.
http://zwiftcalendar.com/
ODZ will ask you to fill out a wee survey - takes less than a minute - useful to help the seed/grade you for the events (via Strava link) apart from anything else. They're a cracking bunch, think some of their rides might suit you too, worth a visit.
Thanks, I'll take a look.
Yeah Richmond can get dull even when racing, slightly better now you can choose a 'hilly', 'flat' or original Championship course. Highly recommend the actual race events and training rides ,as well as structured training, though - the ZTR EB races are extremely competitive if that's your bent, plenty of others too and particular shout out to Zwift ODZ boys who do some cracking good, hard but light hearted stuff
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZwiftODZ
Cat and Mouse with them is excellent fun and bloody hard work.
I've got Zwift as a back up @fukawitribe after buying an Elite Digital turbo trainer a couple of months back and yeah, I really like it - not something I ever expected as in the past anything longer than twenty minutes on the turbo drove me insane.
I've done a couple of the interval sessions which give plenty of focus although I must admit I'm not too much of a fan of the Richmond course though.
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You may have already looked and rejected but might it be worth looking at some of the stuff on Zwift ? Competitive spirit, time-constrained, plethora of little 'helpers'... sounds familiar, and it actually got me finally into racing after realising Zwift wasn't really about pootling about a fake island on your own staring at the wall - and it seems to be having a knock-on effect on the kids, middle daughter in particular absolutely desperate to get on and start racing herself There's some good crews on there too and various levels of event throughout the day and night, seems more immediate to me than others e.g. Tacx. YMMV obviously, I know some hate the idea. Good luck with everything, your new job sounds good to me
Good effort Stu, looking forward to reading about your progress!
Kudos to you sir
Thanks Ian