One extra tip that took me some time to find: To recenter the riders list on yourself in the companion app, you need to double-tap any name in the list, then your own entry will centre in the middle of the screen. It's not intuitive and not really documented anywhere.
Hey Sarah! Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 on your video being recommended by Zwift Companion App! I was surprised and not surprised at the same time. You’ve made a major impact on the community for more than just a few years and it’s very nice to see you being recognized for all of your dedication and hard work. RIDE ON SARAH! 🚴
Thanks for the great tips. I discovered your channel when I came across your Unlock jerseys video. Always went to Shane Miller for Zwift tips, then I discovered we have our own local expert.
Saw the headline and thought "Yeah this will be standard fare clickbait". So wrong. These tips are great. I've been zwifting for almost year (lvl 31) and use the FB groups, and the multi ride on was the only one I knew. Great work pulling this together, thank you.
Love you're channel! New to Zwift and your videos are the best Zwift resource I've found! Request... Could you do a video what the Tour de Zwift is all about? I just use Zwift to stay in shape and I'm not a racer. Is there any point for us non-racers??? Thanks in advance!
I'm probably going to cover a ride soon, and I mention it a little in my next video but there is totally a case for non racers. In fact, its mostly non racers. They are huge group ride. Did one yesterday with 1800 people! People just break into sub groups at their desired pace and just ride. The categories are only for distance not ability. Some people will "race" it, but there are no results at the end, just ride your ride for personal pride. There's a bunch of unlocks along the way - Jersey, hat, socks etc and you have 5 days to do each ride (total of 8) plus a make up week at the end. Doesn't matter what distance you do, you get the same credit. These rides pull the biggest crowds so its a great way to get more miles for your effort because the blob moves so much faster than you could on your own for the same effort. I'd register and do the stage 1 ride and see if you like the group dynamic it DEFINITELY does not need to be a race you could noodle it or go for a personal best and still have plenty of folks around.
I thought I knew all the little tricks. Hmm. Apparently I did not. Learn something new everyday. Great video. I will be referring to it again in the future.
The ability to create a workout from a GPX ride is great! Seems like it's close to being able to create a "Magic Road". It would be great to make a local ride and not just a workout. I have several rides I've created on RGT, but what's lacking there is the ability to see where you are on the virtual course; no waypoints or other features to identify your location. ZWIFT has a map with your location which would help.
What’s On Zwift also has another cool feature. The ability to take a ride you’ve done on a Garmin for example, and create a workout from it. Great tip ... thanks for sharing.
I think that feature is awesome. I haven't actually used it yet, but I think it would come in handy if you are trying to mimic an effort from a course or a race.
That’s exactly what I use it for. For both Ironman 70.3 Virginia and Atlantic City, I was able to convert the ride to a workout and kind of replicate the effort needed. Very helpful. Not perfect, but good enough! 😁
Hi, nice content. I have a question though. When I connect my hartrate monitor to Zwift I see that it Works and get a pulse, but after a few minuten I lose the connection to Zwift. I connect with the companion app and have the garmin hrm-dual hartrate monitor. Thanks in advance
The camera view, I haven't heard of a way to do that but I am not an expert on the mobile or ATV platforms. I'm nearly positive you can click the green box for the clean upload on the photos though. If you use the companion app to trigger the shutter, it should save the photos to your phone. I am not sure if an Apple keyboard with ATV will let you use the shortcuts for the pairing screen, but you enter the menu screen and hit the bluetooth button and accomplish the same thing. It's an extra click, but it should still be faster than coasting. Lastly, the ride ons will work on any platform as long as you have the companion app running.
For more ride ons hold your finger over your spot on the companion app for a second or two. This way you can give ride ons to a lot more people in a wider field.
Very useful information, one question with Zwift, if you choose a course that you could finish in an hour's workout dose the choice of left, right or straight actually take longer to complete? In other words know the course.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, what I think you are asking is that if you choose a course in the menu and then those directional choices come up in the workout what happens if you press them? Don't touch those, if you change the direction, you change the route entirely, you won't be on a route anymore, just free riding, which is fine if that's what you want to do, but won't complete the course for you. Hope that's what you meant.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thank you, that's exactly what I was asking, so don't select a direction. There have been times when I've asked, when is this 25k course gonna end.
The app cost in the US is 15.99 per month, I don't know what the cost is in other areas though. I don't believe it is a direct correlation to the dollar exchange, but somewhere in that range :) You will enjoy it!
I only do ZWIFT workouts. Often when I start I want to change the world. How do I change a world? When I do stop- it takes me out of the workout completely and I lose what I've done.
Vegan Cyclist 100+1 ride. I think he still does them every month first Wednesday I think I've seen some Saturdays too the times rotate as well. They used to be very well advertised on Zwift I haven't seen anything lately but Tyler mentioned having done one this month a few videos back.
They aren't stored in the companion app unfortunately, you have to find them in the photos folder of either a computer or phone/tablet running the program.
Taking better selfies is great, but in terms of functionality and riding, the Super Tuck trick is a far more interesting and useful trick that many people don't know about (hint: get to 40mph and stop pedaling - you'll at least maintain 40mph without effort and often even accelerate).
Hi this may seem like silly or weird question but here goes. Why do I have all these friend requests from all these people that I don’t know and people that don’t know me? Does zwift give you some type of badge or XP points based on how many friends that you have?
Lol no, no extra points or anything - although you do get a badge for getting 100 ride ons in a single ride. This happens for a couple reasons... Maybe you've ridden in a group ride, or race and your performance stood out to someone for whatever reason I.e. strong sprint, maybe you guys were evenly matched in a subgroup etc. Some groups have tight communities and they want to follow each other and support when they see that person is riding. Sometimes it's like Instagram and people want you to follow them back so they follow you first. I thought it was weird too. Before I even had a following on youtube, people randomly followed me. Sometimes it was because I was active in Facebook groups but some were just completely random. Now I'm used to it especially because people find me from here. It's actually kind of nice to get a random ride on from someone encouraging you, especially when you're re working hard. There's so little private data there that no one is going it to be weird or stalkerish... It's just a very excited and social community. Every once in awhile, you'll find out someone cool is following you 😎
Yeah you have to do it in the beginning before you take off or once the event ends. It does work in meetups and I when you are riding with pace partners. It wasn't always that way, I am not sure if they will bring that functionality back or not. I am not really sure why they took it away to begin with, probably some sort of programming constraint, it seems punitive otherwise and for what good reason? The You're popular badge? Why make that more difficult to get?
Thanks good info. Been on there 2 yrs. mostly just pick a route and play PAC man. Don't get much of it. Almostn10 million points . For what? Have the tron, Canyon, Specialized , the Emonda and Enves best. Now its the Indian not the arrow . Don't get the points deal.
Yeah, the reward system in Zwift is kind of bonkers to be honest. The best unlocks are all available pretty early on in the game with no real incentive after level 30 or so. At that point levels and drops are all about Ego. I have every bike and wheel pairing that is the best combination for all the different courses plus a few that were just fun and have 6 million drops. They really need to put some stuff in the drop shop that we can spend it on to make it a little more fun. I love Zwift, it makes indoor training tolerable, but it was so much more fun when I was still working toward unlocking this stuff, it was a little extra motivation to do a few more miles or one more climb... now it's just ticking off miles. They have to be cognizant of that and have new developments forthcoming for higher level riders... the running joke is that these developments are coming "zoon." Things have been a little quiet from the Zwift team these days, makes me wonder if something is in the works... they really need to rebuild the UI... that would really open up a lot of programming flexibility for them. They could add new skins, unlocks, styles etc in a few hours rather than the months it takes to get even the most basic updates.
Any plans on more levels. Been at 50 20million drops. I'd pay for a Seven Eleven kit from My era.. thanks for the tips Why do many do low watt recovery group rides and burn rubber leaving at 3 to 5wkg and keep going.
Do you cycle as fast as you talk? if so , you will win evey race. Golly, My ears just got bombarded with a mailstrom of speeding words. is there a slowmo for youtube, ? good tips ...
I'm not sure what you're saying. I'm not understanding your connection between level 42 and clean images? Edit: Nevermind lol, I'm an idiot, I didn't connect the TIL - I read it as 'til 🤣 learn something new every day
ATV is not really my wheelhouse, unfortunately... But I'll work on it for sure, I'll keep my eye out for tips and make sure to include them in more videos. Its a little stripped down at the moment but it's stable. Not sure what Zwifts plans are to expand the functionality, but some of it has to come from Apples end, more connections need to be allowed on newer models, and making their keyboard interface with the program (that's partially on Zwift) will be a game changer for ATV.
Not terribly stressed, but I do talk fast. I forget to slow down sometimes lol. It usually happens during voice overs because I'm trying to keep up with the action on screen 🤦🏼♀️
3:36 clear as day. 85K people watched this video and didn't find it rushed or "unnerving and annoying" use the pause button and some critical thought if you miss something what's annoying and unnerving is lazy commentary 🤷🏼♀️
One extra tip that took me some time to find: To recenter the riders list on yourself in the companion app, you need to double-tap any name in the list, then your own entry will centre in the middle of the screen. It's not intuitive and not really documented anywhere.
Great tip! That's confounded me as a newish user.
Thanks. I’m looking forward to trying that tip!
Magic. Thanks
Great tip...what about when the entire rider list disappears during a ride?
thank you, Guy
Hey Sarah! Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 on your video being recommended by Zwift Companion App! I was surprised and not surprised at the same time. You’ve made a major impact on the community for more than just a few years and it’s very nice to see you being recognized for all of your dedication and hard work. RIDE ON SARAH! 🚴
Great set of tips and not the usual ones given!
Just stumbled across your channel this evening. Several hours later I must pull myself away from the screen - what an education!
Thanks for the great tips. I discovered your channel when I came across your Unlock jerseys video. Always went to Shane Miller for Zwift tips, then I discovered we have our own local expert.
I am impressed! Nice tips. Thank you!!! ❤️
The super-tuck is something I didn't learn about until I was about level 20....very useful for races or just having a rest on a long downhill
Great video. I love ❤️ this channel!
So handy!! Thanks for posting
Mind blown. Didn’t know about any of these!! Thanks again Sarah.
Those tips are actually so useful
Thanks for making these!
Good tips! Some of those I didn’t know them despite being on Zwift for three years.
Great stuff!! Workout one looks like a great site!! (Way too many to choose when on the bike)
Great tips! Thanks!
Appreciate the info. Love the What's on Zwift tip. Thanks a bunch. Happy New Years. Let's all have a Fantastic 2021 !!
Nope, knew all those
Thanks Sara. Great content.
I've been zwifting for 2 years but didn't know about the tip #2. Cheers!
Uh, same here.
Thanks for the tips! I’m loving Zwift, although those one on one duels can get exhausting - why is everyone so competitive?! 😉
Saw the headline and thought "Yeah this will be standard fare clickbait". So wrong. These tips are great. I've been zwifting for almost year (lvl 31) and use the FB groups, and the multi ride on was the only one I knew. Great work pulling this together, thank you.
This is so Ride On! Thanks for this.
Love you're channel! New to Zwift and your videos are the best Zwift resource I've found! Request... Could you do a video what the Tour de Zwift is all about? I just use Zwift to stay in shape and I'm not a racer. Is there any point for us non-racers??? Thanks in advance!
I'm probably going to cover a ride soon, and I mention it a little in my next video but there is totally a case for non racers. In fact, its mostly non racers. They are huge group ride. Did one yesterday with 1800 people! People just break into sub groups at their desired pace and just ride. The categories are only for distance not ability. Some people will "race" it, but there are no results at the end, just ride your ride for personal pride. There's a bunch of unlocks along the way - Jersey, hat, socks etc and you have 5 days to do each ride (total of 8) plus a make up week at the end. Doesn't matter what distance you do, you get the same credit. These rides pull the biggest crowds so its a great way to get more miles for your effort because the blob moves so much faster than you could on your own for the same effort. I'd register and do the stage 1 ride and see if you like the group dynamic it DEFINITELY does not need to be a race you could noodle it or go for a personal best and still have plenty of folks around.
I thought I knew all the little tricks. Hmm. Apparently I did not. Learn something new everyday. Great video. I will be referring to it again in the future.
Good tips!
The ability to create a workout from a GPX ride is great! Seems like it's close to being able to create a "Magic Road". It would be great to make a local ride and not just a workout. I have several rides I've created on RGT, but what's lacking there is the ability to see where you are on the virtual course; no waypoints or other features to identify your location. ZWIFT has a map with your location which would help.
Great 😀 thank you so much
Great videos, I’ve just started my zwift journey 😁
Awesome, welcome!
Really great tips!
What’s On Zwift also has another cool feature. The ability to take a ride you’ve done on a Garmin for example, and create a workout from it.
Great tip ... thanks for sharing.
I think that feature is awesome. I haven't actually used it yet, but I think it would come in handy if you are trying to mimic an effort from a course or a race.
That’s exactly what I use it for. For both Ironman 70.3 Virginia and Atlantic City, I was able to convert the ride to a workout and kind of replicate the effort needed. Very helpful. Not perfect, but good enough! 😁
Hi, nice content. I have a question though. When I connect my hartrate monitor to Zwift I see that it Works and get a pulse, but after a few minuten I lose the connection to Zwift. I connect with the companion app and have the garmin hrm-dual hartrate monitor. Thanks in advance
Great channel Sarah!
Awesome! I'm level 26 on Zwift and knew about 10% of this! Thanks!
Thank you for the workout page
These are great tips! Curious on how you could apply them if using Apple TV?
The camera view, I haven't heard of a way to do that but I am not an expert on the mobile or ATV platforms. I'm nearly positive you can click the green box for the clean upload on the photos though. If you use the companion app to trigger the shutter, it should save the photos to your phone. I am not sure if an Apple keyboard with ATV will let you use the shortcuts for the pairing screen, but you enter the menu screen and hit the bluetooth button and accomplish the same thing. It's an extra click, but it should still be faster than coasting. Lastly, the ride ons will work on any platform as long as you have the companion app running.
Thx for the link to the website! Awesome!
That is cool to remove the charts on photos post workout, I wasn't aware. Is there a way to drop multiple ride on's without the companion app?
For more ride ons hold your finger over your spot on the companion app for a second or two. This way you can give ride ons to a lot more people in a wider field.
Just excellent. Exactly what the title says. Cool tips and clear explanations. Good job and thanks a lot! 👍🏻
You make great videos.
Nice kit.
Nice tips 🚒👍
Great video, thanks. I have used and shared your kit hacks before. How did you get the yellow Mavic shoes? Happy Hollidays
Hi, thanks for the kind words. The Mavic Shoes are unlockable at level 35 🙂
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic OK thanks 11 to go
I need this jersey 💚
Very useful information, one question with Zwift, if you choose a course that you could finish in an hour's workout dose the choice of left, right or straight actually take longer to complete? In other words know the course.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, what I think you are asking is that if you choose a course in the menu and then those directional choices come up in the workout what happens if you press them? Don't touch those, if you change the direction, you change the route entirely, you won't be on a route anymore, just free riding, which is fine if that's what you want to do, but won't complete the course for you. Hope that's what you meant.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thank you, that's exactly what I was asking, so don't select a direction. There have been times when I've asked, when is this 25k course gonna end.
Hi I notice there are energy gels appearing in my jersey during the ride, what are these for and can I use them? Thanks for thew videos.
The blue things in your pockets are ride one. They are just a visual representation. They aren't anything that can be used.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thanks
Fab 🤘🐸🤘
Hello, can I disable the scenery?
What about ipad 🤷♂️
Ohhhhh so that's how you give rideons without going mad clicking names :)
OK, I don't get it. I hit the A key and all I get to is the pairing screen. How do I get to my garage from the pairing screen?
Waiting on the echelon bike can I use this app and what’s the cost
The app cost in the US is 15.99 per month, I don't know what the cost is in other areas though. I don't believe it is a direct correlation to the dollar exchange, but somewhere in that range :) You will enjoy it!
I only do ZWIFT workouts. Often when I start I want to change the world. How do I change a world? When I do stop- it takes me out of the workout completely and I lose what I've done.
Dude! How did you get the VC kit you’re wearing in the video? #musthave #bruh
Vegan Cyclist 100+1 ride. I think he still does them every month first Wednesday I think I've seen some Saturdays too the times rotate as well. They used to be very well advertised on Zwift I haven't seen anything lately but Tyler mentioned having done one this month a few videos back.
Nice Vegan kit...how do you unlock that one plz??
Where do I find back up photos on companion app please
They aren't stored in the companion app unfortunately, you have to find them in the photos folder of either a computer or phone/tablet running the program.
Dude! The whatsonzwift.com tip was awesome! I had no idea that existed! New favorite web site! Thank you very much!
Me either
Taking better selfies is great, but in terms of functionality and riding, the Super Tuck trick is a far more interesting and useful trick that many people don't know about (hint: get to 40mph and stop pedaling - you'll at least maintain 40mph without effort and often even accelerate).
Ok
Hi this may seem like silly or weird question but here goes. Why do I have all these friend requests from all these people that I don’t know and people that don’t know me? Does zwift give you some type of badge or XP points based on how many friends that you have?
Lol no, no extra points or anything - although you do get a badge for getting 100 ride ons in a single ride. This happens for a couple reasons... Maybe you've ridden in a group ride, or race and your performance stood out to someone for whatever reason I.e. strong sprint, maybe you guys were evenly matched in a subgroup etc. Some groups have tight communities and they want to follow each other and support when they see that person is riding. Sometimes it's like Instagram and people want you to follow them back so they follow you first. I thought it was weird too. Before I even had a following on youtube, people randomly followed me. Sometimes it was because I was active in Facebook groups but some were just completely random. Now I'm used to it especially because people find me from here. It's actually kind of nice to get a random ride on from someone encouraging you, especially when you're re working hard. There's so little private data there that no one is going it to be weird or stalkerish... It's just a very excited and social community. Every once in awhile, you'll find out someone cool is following you 😎
The multiple ride-on function doesn't work on group rides.
Yeah you have to do it in the beginning before you take off or once the event ends. It does work in meetups and I when you are riding with pace partners. It wasn't always that way, I am not sure if they will bring that functionality back or not. I am not really sure why they took it away to begin with, probably some sort of programming constraint, it seems punitive otherwise and for what good reason? The You're popular badge? Why make that more difficult to get?
💚💚💚
Hi there, how did you get the vegan cyclist kit ?
Thanks good info. Been on there 2 yrs. mostly just pick a route and play PAC man. Don't get much of it. Almostn10 million points . For what? Have the tron, Canyon, Specialized , the Emonda and Enves best. Now its the Indian not the arrow . Don't get the points deal.
Yeah, the reward system in Zwift is kind of bonkers to be honest. The best unlocks are all available pretty early on in the game with no real incentive after level 30 or so. At that point levels and drops are all about Ego. I have every bike and wheel pairing that is the best combination for all the different courses plus a few that were just fun and have 6 million drops. They really need to put some stuff in the drop shop that we can spend it on to make it a little more fun. I love Zwift, it makes indoor training tolerable, but it was so much more fun when I was still working toward unlocking this stuff, it was a little extra motivation to do a few more miles or one more climb... now it's just ticking off miles. They have to be cognizant of that and have new developments forthcoming for higher level riders... the running joke is that these developments are coming "zoon." Things have been a little quiet from the Zwift team these days, makes me wonder if something is in the works... they really need to rebuild the UI... that would really open up a lot of programming flexibility for them. They could add new skins, unlocks, styles etc in a few hours rather than the months it takes to get even the most basic updates.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic thanks for the reply . I agree
Any plans on more levels. Been at 50 20million drops. I'd pay for a Seven Eleven kit from My era.. thanks for the tips
Why do many do low watt recovery group rides and burn rubber leaving at 3 to 5wkg and keep going.
I use an iPad not a computer so don’t have a keyboard so how can I do these tips??
Maybe try a Bluetooth keyboard? I also use an iPad and will try this next time.
@@guitsynthcw good idea!
Do many people take pictures of themselves? What is the whole point to that? Can someone explain?
Ride with a sensor on your bike and swift running on your phone to get swift kilometres when Ur out side 🌞
Zwift should pay you for what you do for them.
What butom do a have to push to upgrade my ftp to 300+?
Or do i just have to train more? 🤣😂
Do you cycle as fast as you talk? if so , you will win evey race. Golly, My ears just got bombarded with a mailstrom of speeding words. is there a slowmo for youtube, ? good tips ...
Level 42: TIL you can upload clean images.
I'm not sure what you're saying. I'm not understanding your connection between level 42 and clean images?
Edit: Nevermind lol, I'm an idiot, I didn't connect the TIL - I read it as 'til 🤣 learn something new every day
Tips with Apple TV
ATV is not really my wheelhouse, unfortunately... But I'll work on it for sure, I'll keep my eye out for tips and make sure to include them in more videos. Its a little stripped down at the moment but it's stable. Not sure what Zwifts plans are to expand the functionality, but some of it has to come from Apples end, more connections need to be allowed on newer models, and making their keyboard interface with the program (that's partially on Zwift) will be a game changer for ATV.
I guess it's cool....but I could care less about a Selfie
You give nice tips, but you speak so fast and sound so stressed. I had to play your video 3 times. I write this to you in good faith!
Not terribly stressed, but I do talk fast. I forget to slow down sometimes lol. It usually happens during voice overs because I'm trying to keep up with the action on screen 🤦🏼♀️
i never saw white bubble or whatever you said for rideons. you are rushing this whole video and its unnerving and annoying
3:36 clear as day. 85K people watched this video and didn't find it rushed or "unnerving and annoying" use the pause button and some critical thought if you miss something what's annoying and unnerving is lazy commentary 🤷🏼♀️
Obviously not. But thanks for being a jerk