Using kicker bike shift, doing workout on Zwift. Seen quite a bit of power fluctuation, despite maintaining steady cadence and effort. Have gone through several kicker trainers, including 2017, and would always get very steady power output when doing workouts. Power fluctuates +/-10 to 15 W throughout a steady effort. Erg smoothing is set “on”.
Bike is brand new.
Latest firmware.
Same on both BT or Ant+ connection
Strong WiFi/ gigabit internet
Not see drops with cadence,
Attached is workout on Shift, will also post workout from Kickr (forum limits me to one image)
I believe that DameLisa is correct. The first graph looks very normal when trainer-level smoothing is turned off. The second graph is definitely with trainer-level smoothing turned on.
I double checked, and smoothing is definitely turned on. I agree, it looks like the first one is not applying smoothing, but according to the Wahoo app it should be.
Are you looking at the software/application level smoothing, or at the device level? The perfectly straight lines are only “available” when you do an ERG workout, and you need to set the “Erg mode power smoothing” option ON in the Wahoo app. See below.
That said, I prefer trying to work on smoothing my pedal stroke rather than seeing an artificially smooth power.
