I'll check it out. I've tried a few Zwift competitors, but haven't been that impressed. I'm a bit bored with Zwift though.

sounds like a lot of technical features! I'm a faithful Rouvy rider in winters and like the real road view compared to the gaming graphics of zwift. I'm not looking for rider interaction, just riding/racing. The number of available races on Rouvy have been going down significantly to a frustrating level. This might be worth a look, esp as a free trial.

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Great things never come from comfort zones.

First thing they should do is change the name.

Is it downloadble? On the App store?

Sign up for the beta. They will email you the download link in a few minutes.

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

• Download the latest version here: https://indievelo.com/downloads
• Additional documentation is here: https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

Graphics look a lot better than Zwift.

6 months later, I'm keen to hear further thoughts from users... following their updates, they appear to be growing exponentially....

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When it's free sure it will grow fast. There is still rouvy, a competitor to zwift

Exponential growth at start up is relatively easy and quite common. On the other hand, sustained long-term growth year after year is the real test of a company’s viability.

And the problem for any competitors to Zwift, is making people shift platform. Most people probably (?) pick a platform based on being able to ride with other people (Zwift pace groups) so until other platforms can attract enough people they won’t be able to attract enough people and so the cycle continues. Whilst Zwift provide a good stable platform I suspect it may be hard to tempt people away, though it will be interesting to see.

Can only give my n+1 feedback - I downloaded it today.

On first load, it continually froze with update errors. After about two hours of killing it in the Task Manager and then restarting, it downloaded the updates.

Unfortunately, when I start it it just crashes - or rather just stops and closes without showing anything.

I have tried this on a Desktop and two laptops, all same thing.

I know it's beta, but it's a shame it's gone public in this state.

Humans are predisposed to sticking with whatever that they have used/are using. Hence, changing from one Platform to another is going to take a lot of push.

Some do it because of cost, some do it because of peer pressure (eg: I stuck w/ Zwift rather than RGT due to number of other riders and races, but I've now abandoned it all, too much Zwift races got me cooked)

So Yeah..

They could be the reason why Zwift is now offering 12months subs tho

I’ve been riding on IndieVelo since the summer. Haven’t had any of the issues you mentioned. Are you sure you have a strong enough computer? I had to get a newer computer/laptop to run it as I was using Apple TV with Zwift. Email support at indieVelo to help. They have been great and quite responsive. The Facebook group is helpful too.

Hi, thanks for the reply.

The desktop I tried is a Ryzen 9 with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1660 Super running in an X570 carbon pro Motherboard.

The laptops were a Dell XPS three years old and an older ThinkPad

None of them worked.

I'll give it up for now, but thanks for the reply.