Start your weekend with the BBC Sat or Sun 9 am Zwift rides or join us on Wed at 6 pm. Rides are usually 1 hour. The Zwift ride schedule is here. The rides for each week are posted every Monday on the Zwift Companion app, select Club Bombay Bicycle Club Madison.
The Wed and Sat rides use Keep Together mode, popularly known as ‘rubber band’. This keeps everyone together regardless of effort. Your distance, power, heart rate etc. will however show your actual effort. Sunday Challenge rides are hillier and Keep Together mode is not enabled. We use a Discord Channel so you can talk with other BBC Zwifters during the rides.
Follow all the steps below to join BBC Zwift Club rides.
Zwift Apps (required)
To join any Zwift ride, there are 2 apps you must have:
Zwift
This is the app you'll use for all Zwift rides. It displays the virtual route graphics, automatically adjusts pedaling resistance and shows your real time ride data (power, speed, heart rate, cadence etc)
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Install the Zwift app from the iPhone App Store, Google Play (Android) or the Microsoft Store (Windows PC)
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Next you’ll set up your Zwift account and payment methods. Feel free to append “(BBC-MSN)” to your Zwift user name so we recognize BBC riders
Zwift Companion (free)
This is the app you'll use to accept the invite for each BBC Zwift event. It has many other uses to help you find and schedule other Zwift events, races etc.
Join the BBC Zwift Club (required)
You must join the BBC Zwift Club (free), Bombay Bicycle Club Madison to ride BBC Zwift events. This is best done from your Apple/Android phone, Mac or tablet:
- Select here then select JOIN
- You'll now get BBC Zwift ride notifications in both the Zwift app start screen (60 min before the start time) and in the Zwift Companion, CLUB EVENTS section
Signing Up For a BBC Zwift Event
You must sign up for an event before the ride start time
- Open Zwift Companion app
- Select Clubs then Bombay Bicycle Club Madison:
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Using the CLUB EVENTS left/right scroll arrow, select the Event you intend to ride. You'll now see the Event details - Date, Route, Duration etc.:
- You must select + next to AVG power category (We use Category E, 1.0 - 5.0 W/kg). The button changes to a check mark. Select again to remove yourself from the Event
Enabling Phone Notifications for BBC Zwift Events
This is very helpful, you'll get phone notifications from Zwift Companion for each BBC Event.
- Open Zwift Companion app, select CLUBS, BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB MADISON
- At top right select
then CLUB NOTIFICATIONS, turn on ALL CLUB EVENTS and CLUB EVENTS
- From your phone's settings, turn on notifications for Companion
Riding a BBC Zwift Event
Its good practice to be on your trainer 20 min early to check everything is working and for a warm up ride.
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Discord. If you want to join the Discord audio banter, start the app on your phone, tablet etc, or from a web browser select here
- Select Bombay Bicycle Club, Voice Channels, General
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Start the Zwift App. It will automatically pair with your smart trainer, heart rate and cadence etc. sensors
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Select the BBC Club Event or any ride you want to use to warmup:
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Select RIDE and start pedaling. About 5 minutes before the start time, a JOIN EVENT button pops up at the lower left. Select it to be transported to the BBC Meetup route with the other BBC riders
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At the designated start time, we're off. The ride will end automatically when the distance or time is complete. From MENU end your ride and SAVE to Strava, Garmin, Trainer Peaks etc.