Glad that you are enjoying Rouvy. A few tips to help your experience (level 84) Join events (race and group rides) as these tend to give you more coins and experience than just completing the same route on your own. Races and group rides also allow the drafting benefit, however group rides don't add your activity to any challenges you may have joined, nor do they attach to any of the Strava segments. As your coins increase don't just buy the first available bike or wheel set. Items have 1 to 5 stars based on weight and aerodynamics (5 is best). At the moment the best all-round bikes, with 4 stars weight and aerodynamics are the Trek Gen 8 Madone, Liv Langman, Baldiso and the Specialised Tarmac - with the Tarmac generally giving a few seconds advantage over the rest. As for wheels - for your first purchase i would suggest saving for "Lightweight Obermayer" as these are 4 stars weight and aero. The disk wheels are great if only riding flat routes - but not for any hills. example based on Lake como at 2 w.kg average with no drafting. Tarmac + Cadex aero disk 42.29 Tarmac + Lightweight Obermayer 44.16 Rouvy bike + Cadex 42 46.31 so almost 4 minutes difference based on the same w/kg power output. If you search Google for "Rouvy Analyser" you will find a website which allows you to search a specific route then add some key metrics such as weight, ftp, expected average power output then select the bikes and wheels that you have available and click [analyse]. The site will then workout the best combination for that route. As your experience grows - the climbs get much easier. This morning I joined the weekly Sunday morning hill race (colle del Nivolet) and throughout next week I have set myself the challenge of riding 7 mountains that will appear in the 2025 TDF (starting with Hautacam tomorrow and Ventoux on Tuesday). ------------------------------------ Race tip. start pedalling as soon as the 54321 countdown timer starts and at the final second put down as much power as you are able to (without actually sprinting) for the first 30 seconds or so. Getting in to the lead group or close to the front as soon as possible makes life much easier as you get the drafting benefit. If you start slowly - then that lead group will never be caught if they get too far ahead. The busiest race events. Any that mention "Muckers", "GRC" and the official Rouvy races. Tuesday and Thursday 7pm GMT and Sunday 9.15am for Muckers or 3.15pm Sunday for GRC are consistently the busiest races with the GRC usually being a short flat race.. hope this helps
Oh thank you so much for taking the time for such insights and tips! I highly appreciate it and will definitely check them out!🙌 Btw. I've seen only 65 level in ROUVY as the highest, so you're definitely the biggest OG I stumbled upon :)
Rouvy is the "National Geographic of virtual cycling applications", it has 1,000's km of visually stunning video'd routes, races with 1,000's of participants, group rides taking place all over the world/almost all the time, & simply amazing workouts from top pro teams/pro riders!
Easy one, Rouvy, like traveling around world, every route can be done IRL and there is no need to repeat same route. Unless just scouting route profile for race, but only amateurs practice 😉
I did the 20 min ramp test when I first signed up but didn’t really know what I was doing. As in was it a steady ride or was I supposed to be pushing hard…it was really hardly constantly uphill then rest, then bit uphill etc etc… I try do that test again and it’s not the same, it’s just a steady ride, do you know why??
Yes, it’s because I was streaming (and not downloading the route beforehand) and also the screen recording isn’t always that smooth. So, otherwise I face no issues like that at all. 🙌
Glad that you are enjoying Rouvy. A few tips to help your experience (level 84)
Join events (race and group rides) as these tend to give you more coins and experience than just completing the same route on your own.
Races and group rides also allow the drafting benefit, however group rides don't add your activity to any challenges you may have joined, nor do they attach to any of the Strava segments.
As your coins increase don't just buy the first available bike or wheel set. Items have 1 to 5 stars based on weight and aerodynamics (5 is best). At the moment the best all-round bikes, with 4 stars weight and aerodynamics are the Trek Gen 8 Madone, Liv Langman, Baldiso and the Specialised Tarmac - with the Tarmac generally giving a few seconds advantage over the rest. As for wheels - for your first purchase i would suggest saving for "Lightweight Obermayer" as these are 4 stars weight and aero. The disk wheels are great if only riding flat routes - but not for any hills.
example based on Lake como at 2 w.kg average with no drafting.
Tarmac + Cadex aero disk 42.29
Tarmac + Lightweight Obermayer 44.16
Rouvy bike + Cadex 42 46.31
so almost 4 minutes difference based on the same w/kg power output.
If you search Google for "Rouvy Analyser" you will find a website which allows you to search a specific route then add some key metrics such as weight, ftp, expected average power output then select the bikes and wheels that you have available and click [analyse]. The site will then workout the best combination for that route.
As your experience grows - the climbs get much easier. This morning I joined the weekly Sunday morning hill race (colle del Nivolet) and throughout next week I have set myself the challenge of riding 7 mountains that will appear in the 2025 TDF (starting with Hautacam tomorrow and Ventoux on Tuesday).
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Race tip.
start pedalling as soon as the 54321 countdown timer starts and at the final second put down as much power as you are able to (without actually sprinting) for the first 30 seconds or so. Getting in to the lead group or close to the front as soon as possible makes life much easier as you get the drafting benefit. If you start slowly - then that lead group will never be caught if they get too far ahead.
The busiest race events. Any that mention "Muckers", "GRC" and the official Rouvy races. Tuesday and Thursday 7pm GMT and Sunday 9.15am for Muckers or 3.15pm Sunday for GRC are consistently the busiest races with the GRC usually being a short flat race..
hope this helps
Oh thank you so much for taking the time for such insights and tips! I highly appreciate it and will definitely check them out!🙌
Btw. I've seen only 65 level in ROUVY as the highest, so you're definitely the biggest OG I stumbled upon :)
Really helpful Video! And you seem like a cool guy. 😮☺️ thank you so much
Thanks so much!!🙌
Are you a team Zwift or ROUVY? Let's share your WHY.👇
Rouvy is the "National Geographic of virtual cycling applications", it has 1,000's km of visually stunning video'd routes, races with 1,000's of participants, group rides taking place all over the world/almost all the time, & simply amazing workouts from top pro teams/pro riders!
Easy one, Rouvy, like traveling around world, every route can be done IRL and there is no need to repeat same route. Unless just scouting route profile for race, but only amateurs practice 😉
Rouvy, the realism of the routes wins over everything else. SR-71 on Rouvy.
Thinking of switching from zwift to be honest 💂❤️🚴👍🇮🇪
Rouvy, wanted to ride actual routes and that gamification in Zwift is not my cup of tea
You need to do the 20 mins FTP test to calibrate your zone.
Yes, I’m planning to do the FTP ramp test in the next few days. Thanks!
I did the 20 min ramp test when I first signed up but didn’t really know what I was doing. As in was it a steady ride or was I supposed to be pushing hard…it was really hardly constantly uphill then rest, then bit uphill etc etc… I try do that test again and it’s not the same, it’s just a steady ride, do you know why??
When you start riding, the image is very jerky - is this because you are streaming? This would be a show-stopper for me.
Yes, it’s because I was streaming (and not downloading the route beforehand) and also the screen recording isn’t always that smooth. So, otherwise I face no issues like that at all. 🙌