Concept2 BikeErg + Zwift | Works right out of the box!
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- The Concept2 BikeErg works right out of the box with Zwift! The PM5 transmits via bluetooth to Zwift so you're able to pass both Watts and Cadence to a device that can receive bluetooth signals. With my Mac, it connected immediately. If you have an issues, check out the Zwift companion app which can help bridge the connection. In the past I had a smart trainer on my road bike which required a ton of extra sensors to transmit data and would often drop the Zwift connection. The BikeErg is affordable, extremely well built, and just works. 100% recommend for a very painful, but fun, Zwifting experience. If you're buying any gear & you find value in my videos, please consider buying through our links as it helps me to continue bringing you great content.
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I’ve been Zwifting on the Concept2 Bikerg for over 2 years now. Your video help me to figure out how to get started. Thanks. David
Thanks for a clear description. It’s a great bike but I can’t live with the noise of the fan. Glad you reported on that aspect 👏🏻👏🏻
I use earbuds with ANC - can't hear a thing.
Nice! I made a video on how to connect your Concept 2 Rower to Zwift and Trainer Road using the Pain Sled app. Thanks for the tips
Nice job, I've been using the concept Bike Erg and Zwift for over a year now and find it's a superb introduction to a static bike/zwift combo. The only thing I wish I could do is pause a ride and take a comfort break but because the PM5 times out I can't get it to restart my zwift connection unless I restart the session! I do love concept though, have the Model E rower (please zwift!!) and the Ski Erg.
Miles Orchard I haven’t experienced this drop yet as I normally don’t take an extended break when riding good to know though.
You can hook up your rower to Zwift using an app called Painsled.
You use your rower to send power to Zwift which moves your bike avatar. Not ideal but works.
Thanks for video, my friend. I have a smart trainer I used with Zwift, but in our covid gym, it's kind of pain to setup an actual bike on it when we are constantly moving things around for workouts. I love the resistance that the game applies on a smart trainer, but for quick workouts where you just want to get out there and burn calories and don't really need to simulate the resistance from the game, this thing would be ideal for us. Another way for me to justify the purchase to my wife- it works with zwift out of the box.
Great video,I have this bike and I love it.
Yes!!! Thanks for this man! I have a bikkerg and gonna try this out
Do you like ur handlebars in that direction seems uncomfortable?
Thanks for the video!
Just wondering if you realize that your handlebar is on upside-down?
Yes - I've addressed this in other comments. Works wonders for a bad lower back as I don't have to hunch as far over handlebars :)
Good video dude I be all over this bike but it sounds like a plane taking off!Be worried upstairs and downstairs flats would kick my door down lol.
lol I'm pointing the gopro mic towards it so it's coming across a bit louder than it is. It's not terribly loud but def not quiet by any means.
I dont think its loud enough to bother your neighbors. I bought this bike a month ago and I thought it would be loud because of the videos I watched. It's not very loud at all. Its definitely not as loud as the chain bikes.
Its a fan noise, not rap music.
Is this bike still something to get in 2023/2024? Thinking of going with Rogue Echo, Peloton or Concept 2 bike.
nice room. rower, treadmill and bike. you got anything else in there?
Thanks for showing what Zwift looks like, but I was hoping it was more realistic. Cheers
How accurate do you find the reported wattage? do you find at the end of a ride that the mileage on zwift and pm5 are quite different? Like if you biked the very flat route that they offer would it be pretty similar?
I've been considering this bike but I'm concerned whether the resistance is sufficient. I like to blast my quads by pedaling against high resistance in short sprints-- can I achieve this with the BikeErg?
Are you He-Man or something?
@@SOLDOZER ???
You want a Rogue Echo bike if this is what you're looking to do. $775 US shipped, will do exactly what you described. There's no hiding from the pain on that thing. In fact, I'm actually here for the opposite reason. I have the Echo bike, and while I suppose it's possible, it's really not something that's designed for mindless cardio while watching TV. I am sure you could blast your quads on this too, but we are looking for something for more of a warm up or active recovery days. My gym has one of these, it's ideal for that. But we do that on level 4, I have not tried putting the damper on 10. For all I know, it will do both types of exercise.
I get a great quad work out at 3-4, it goes up to 10... nothing to be concerned about whatsoever.
2:33 Concept2 makes an optional water bottle holder
So what if someone doesn't have a Mac and so cannot handle ANT+? What's the Bluetooth name of the BikeErg if you scan it with any BLE application?
Hey - thanks for the video - but what did you do to originally pair the pm5 with your computer? It doesn't look like you are using a ant+ dongle.. . were you able to pair it over blue tooth? Hope you can help
Michael Smith the MacBook Pro has a Bluetooth receiver so as long as Bluetooth is enabled on your computer, Zwift should be able to tap into it. The HR strap I linked in the description actually serves as a bridge for Bluetooth and Ant+ connections as well which you can pass to Zwift via your phones app (if needed)
I notice you've got a Concept2 rowing machine as well. Between that and the BikeErg, which do you like better?
I have both I prefer the bike erg
I don’t get it. How do you connect your computer to the ergo bike?
And how do you have to connect your flat screen to your computer?
Rob...thank you for this video. I have a Bike ERG as well and like it very much. It could be my imagination...but I find that in races it's hard to stay in the draft when the pack moves out...like the bike ERG is a little under-responsive. I end up putting out a lot more watts/kg then people around me. Have you noticed anything along these lines?
Hi Rob, I recently got myself Concept2 BikeErg and have been getting into Zwift but i've noticed there is a difference in the distance (km) the bike tracks vs the distance (km) zwift tracks by quite a lot actually. Today I did 27km on the bike erg but the Zwift only track 21km. Have you ever had this issue? I can't find any support on this on the Zwift or Concept2 forums. Appreciate the advice
Im no expert, but it maybe that the zwift is taking the route gradient in to the equation where as the bike isnt
Zwift is not a flat course. So if you go up a hill you won't go as far 😉
Can you use Zwift with only an iPhone and not the computer?
Can you even stand up on this bike to ride or does it bottom out because of the fan?
Are your handlebars upside down?
Yes - I frequently experience lower back pain (herniated disk) and the reversible handlebars are a game changer so I'm not as hunched over. That's one of the main reasons I went with this bike.
Nice demo of Zwift on a bikeerg! Have you tried it with the Peloton app?
Hi John - I tried it and it works great. The only issue, and it's a big one, is the inability to dial in resistance to match the instructor. Their resistance is exact and wouldn't be possible to match on bikeerg. We ended up buying a Peloton as well and I would not recommend anything but a Peloton if you want to cycle with the instructor as just matching cadence feels incomplete
Whats the performance of the app on the Apple TV? Seems like a bit of a pain to have to use a laptop/computer for something like this.
Hi Ben - I’m using a C2 with AppleTV.
After initial set up the bike and my heart rate monitor connect to the AppleTV pretty much immediately and automatically once the Zwift App is opened and the PM5 is on.
Hi, how do you connect the heart rate monitor to zwift or do you connect to the pm5 that transmit to zwift ?
When connecting my Garmin hr monitor and bike erg it will only display one, but says no signal on the other.. do you have any ideas what I’m doing wrong.. you connections look so simple... thanks 👍
Great bike, but the noise is disturbing , unless you have a room strictly for gym equipment.
What settings are your wheel size? 24.2 or 26?
Hey rob, can you please describe in detail how bikerg reacts to hills whe riding in a group? Do you go backwards if you stay constant on watts and then need to increase damper settings to up power and stay with the group? Sorry if that sounds stupid, but I have no clue. Thanks!
If the other riders stay at the same output pr. Kg. As you you will go up at the same speed. But if they have gradient simulation on. They will probably push more watts to overcome the chance in cadence. And then you will have to up your watts to follow.
@@raunefare thanks Benjamin. That’s kind of what I imagined would happen, but good to get it confirmed. After owning the bikerg for a while, Do you regret buying the bikerg because of its lack of hill simulation ability?
@@richardwhitehead4684 I have a smart trainer. But I mostly use in "dumb" mode. We're i change the resistance by chancing gears. But would think the bikeerg would be a pain. To chance the resistance down on the lever in a group ride
DUI bar Zwift racing.
Some people complain about their left leg getting really cold from the damper. Has it bothered you?
I’ve never felt this. If there is a breeze it generates it’s very subtle. I wish it cooled my left leg off!
I also have a standing fan blasting at my face to stay cool.
@@rob2oo4 Cool. Thanks for letting me know. I just ordered one today!
Where should the trainer difficulty setting on Zwift be best set for the BikeErg?
I typically keep my damper at 3/10 for most workouts in order to keep cadence up quite high. Anything above that I’ll use for sprinting. The amount of drag this thing produces at higher levels is astounding.
@@rob2oo4 I was actually asking about the difficulty settings within the Zwift settings. I believe the choices are the choice of easy, medium (default), and hard. Not sure if it matters though.
@@ronhagenhoff2373 ahh ok. I’m not aware of any difficulty settings within the game itself as your own fitness level is the difficulty setting. You can join races based on the wh/kg which basically converts the level of effort you’re putting out in watts and calculates that against your body weight.
I consider myself in better than average shape and I still join the lowest tier (D) for races. A is where the elite cyclists ride.
You can join an A race but it would be pointless as your competition would be moving twice as fast
@@rob2oo4 Can you explain what you mean by that--what is drag?
@@ronhagenhoff2373 Zwift does not have ability to increase the resistance on this, it's essentially a "dumb" trainer. The resistance is not going to increase on this as you go up hills in the game, like it will on Wahoo Kickr Snap.
What program is that
He's using Zwift, did you mean something else? Zwift is like a cross between a social biking =/running app and a training app. Basically it lets you do online training on rainy and cold days
Do you use ergdata as well to push to concept2 logbook? Trying to find a way to do both at the same time.
Hi. I couldn’t get ErgData and Zwift to work at the same time.
I created a USB logbook for the PM5 (instructions on concept2 website). At the end of the ride I save the workout to the USB, and use my computer to upload the results to my online log book.
Next time I sync ergdata the workout is downloaded into the app.
Your handlebars upsidedown....
Your video is just okay.... as you don't show how its all connected... would have been WAY more informative to have included this
The Zwift application is written to auto detect bluetooth devices that are in an awakened state. If bluetooth is enabled on your Mac or PC, Zwift will find your devices. In the case of the BikeErg, as soon as you press the 'Menu' button on the PM5 console it's awake and Zwift will automagically find it. Same with HR monitor. That's how it's 'all connected'.
@@rob2oo4 many thanks 😊 and hope this will help others.
Zwift doesn’t recognise my BikeErg when pressings on ‘Menu’ and don’t find where to connect. My heart rate monitor with ANT+ he finds immediately. Can you help me out?