Sooo I love Sufferfest…it allows me to survive our Canadian winters and I hit the open road this year fitter than ever. I have signed up to do a friend’s cancer ride this summer in Vancouver…The Cypress Challenge. I uploaded the route and just completed it for the first time. It’s fantastic!! My Kickr simulates the grade and distance. It is a climb up a mountain and I chased the ‘bots’ to the top. The scenery is great and at the top you look out on the ocean! I intend to use this to continue to train for the event. It will allow me to gauge the upcoming efforts to develop a pacing strategy. Great work Wahoo!!
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Nice!!
Magic Roads for the win!
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…there was even ‘mile’ markers!!
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Haven’t done one in a bit but there’s a SUFton of potential in it!
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I’ve never uploaded a Magic Road - where does RGT pull the scenery from?
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Its autogenerated from a map I think.
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Yes, the scenery is just generic scenery auto-generated. There are two styles of scenery which you can choose from when creating the event.
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The scenery is very life-like. I uploaded a file of the actual road which goes up a mountain. the generated video shows the mountain in the background as I ascended and there was even an avalanche tunnel rendered where it occurred on the route! I’m very impressed. This was a Magic Roads generated route (please try it it’s under “Cypress Challenge”) and I was the only ‘actual’ rider. The ‘bots’ were quite engaging and they provided pacing and ‘chasing’ opportunities. I know I will be much better prepared for my event thanks to this.
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I’m looking forward to Magic roads being a large part of my next winter indoor training, and summer/Fall event recon. Also, and perhaps more importantly: Ron, I Love your movies! 
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Why are there only two scenery options? gets a bit boring once you have done them a few times
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My guess is a simple lack of dev resources over the past couple years. Hopefully, now that The Company is no longer beholden to The Banks they may be able to give some more love to RGT. #twaaw
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“I’m not quite sure how to put this but…I’m kind of a big deal!”
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I suspect you are right regarding why. Fingers crossed some development effort is underway to widen the variation as I agree with you, @ozmadman, that is does get a bit ‘samey’.
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The “spring in europe” is more prone to problems (like riding thru hillocks) than the “classic”. So watch out for using it on climbs with steep switchbacks, for example.
Clearly the skin system is the low-hanging fruit on how RGT could improve the magic road experience. I tend to not care much, but variation would be much better if they’d at least break the scenery up into components, like pick your vegetation, pick your structures, pick your weather, pick your road surface… then you could mix and match for a particular event.
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