Wahoo Kickr resistance don't go over 50%

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Hi, everyone.

I just bought a second hand Kickr to replace my old Elite Drivo that failed on me with a broken shaft last week.

I installed my road bike on it and started a session with the Trainer Road app, on the small gear on the front and three cogs down from the largest cog of the cassete(so a pretty light gear), and ERG mode. Same way I used to do my sessions at the Elite Drivo with no problems.

After a warmup at around 150W, the app ramped it up to 250W, but them, after a few minutes, the trainer resistance dropped to zero. After a few minutes trying to reset the trainer and the app I still couldn’t have any resistance while the app was still trying to get it to 250W with no response from the trainer.

Them I tried the harder gear my bike have, and it worked, and I could finish my session this way, hitting my power marks. But dropping the cadence to pedal out of the saddle was still a problem, as the trainer could not raise the resistance enough and it dropped again to almost zero, untill I rev the pedals up again.

I also tried slope mode at the Trainer Road app, and it worked fine untill I got to 50% resistance, after that the trainer dropped again to zero resistance untill I got back to a lower setting.

Anyone here ever had similar issues with a Kickr?

Thanks a lot. Daniel

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First, welcome to the forums. Second, depending on the version of Kickr you have, you might need to calibrate it with the Wahoo Fitness App.

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I’ve had odd issues like that. Problem was I would have an app open somewhere that had “grabbed” the Kickr. Finally discovered this by rebooting everything. iPhone, Apple TV and the Kickr itself

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Thanks guys.

The calibration didn’t work. I returned the Kickr to the previous owner, got my money back and bought a brand nem one on the box. Now it’s working perfectly…:slight_smile:

I noticed tath on the new one the calibration spindown reach 36 km/h speed easily. The defective one had some problem on the speed sensor, because to reach 36 Km/h I had to use the last gear of the bike a spin the pedals at a huge cadence.

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If it’s a brand new Kickr as in version 6, you don’t even have to calibrate it. Actually after the Kickr ‘18 none of them require calibration.

Here is a screenshot of the link I posted earlier

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