Increase the gearing range of the virtual shifting
The virtual gearing range seems too small. In a recent race there was a short 10% climb, I was in the lowest possible gear, in the small chain ring, mid rear sprocket doing 40rpm and 450 watts. I may be doing something wrong but it seeems you need a larger range
Andy
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Many thanks for your suggestion and support for TrainingPeaks Virtual.
You can already increase the range of virtual gears to simulate an extra 50 rear sprockets...which hopefully should be enough for most situations! Simply go to the Main Menu > Options > Trainer Settings menu and then set the number of virtual gears from there to be as large as you want.
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Kade S-T
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The range isn't the problem, it's that there's no low gear at all. The official help article admits this: "Virtual gearing is set up so that you can decrease the resistance a little but increase it a lot."
This is useless and effectively broken. Similar to Andy, any type of hill the lowest gear is not low at all. I was in -8 virtual gear and grinding up a 10% hill at 65rpm well above my FTP.
My actual bike in low gear I could sit and spin up the same hill at 95rpm and be easily sub FTP.
It's false to mark this as "completed"
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Andy
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Thanks for the feedback, I've increased the number of gears to the maximum, however the smallest gear I can only go to is -12 and this is not enough when you are in a race where the trainer settings are 100%.
I've just switched from the Zwift click system (ie single sprocket with the virtual shifter) which provided me ample range using the same gearing setup.
In TrainingPeaks VR I need to set the hill setting to 30% to be able to climb the hills, this is OK, however this is not possible in a race. I had to abandon my last race because of this.
Another thing is that the shifting is way too slow, its taking 20 seconds to change 6 gears so I'm dropped as soon as we hill the steep hill.