Power source

Former Member over 4 years ago

Normally use the Neo with no power source plugged in, but when I have plugged it in the power seems slightly more responsive, or perhaps its just my imagination. I am racing TT events on Zwift on flattish routes and wondered if there was any hard evidence (has any tested it) that you do get better rolling speed with a power source as every course has some down hill even if only slight?

Appreciate the easiest solution is to just pedal harder, and I promise you I am, but in TT's every second counts. If I can optimise the Neo performance (as well as my own) and be confident I am not loosing any advantage over other riders using Neo's that would be nice to know.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

Some TT users think that a slightly negative slope in the Neo simulates better the inertia of a TT bike with low CdA so they prefer training with -0.5% -1% set fixed in the Tacx app and then paired in zwift as a power meter. This can be related with your experience.

0 1400387 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

When you are connected to to the Tacx Training app you can't set de slope. The app takes over. When riding it's like you have a constant hard headwind. When I ride on the road I normally have an avarage speed of 30 km/u. On the Neobike it's about 25/27 km/u and I have to deliver about 50 watt extra. Can this be fixed? Haven't tried any other app like Zwift...

So the real feel is not present.