Hey what's up guys this is Tariq Ali from smartbiketrainers.com. VirtuGo announced the Ghost riders
just a couple of days ago and it's basically a ghostrider that mimics
your previous ride exactly.If you've ever used virtual partner on a Garmin
device it's basically something like that but before we get into this feature
what is VirtuGo? By the way if you are new here I review smart bike trainers and
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okay let me take a quick one minute to give you a quick overview of VirtuGo
Virtugo is a virtual cycling platform available for Windows and Mac with a
strong focus on training similar to other virtual cycling platform you've
seen out there. However Virtugo is differentiating themselves in the market
as a training platform they offer different training programs geared
toward timetrialist, climbers, criterium sprinters, and all-rounders. Or you can
just do a free ride. They currently have three virtual worlds you can ride on
Virtugo world, is a 4.8 mile made-up circuit that is mostly flat with
three very short climbs. Coll de Soller: a 4mile route in Mallorca and has an
elevation gain of 1,184 feet and an average gradient of 5.6%
average gradient of 5.6%. Willunga Hill: a 14-mile route located in Australia.
You’ve probably heard of it, or familiar with it. It is part of the tour
down under and the climb itself is a 3-kilometer long
and 7.5% average gradient. You have the ability to customize your avatar
with different skin tone male/female jersey color helmet you can even
customize your bike frame frame color handlebars pedals group set wheels and
even your saddle. Whoa... I think that was one minute or maybe a little bit longer
so that's Virtugo in a nutshell to enable the ghost feature you need to go
to your ride history and find the ride you want to do with your Ghost Rider
ideally you want to find a ride that you did very well at and see if you can beat
yourself at that same course. I do not have much history here so here is one
ride I did when you select a ride you will see the options to enable
ghosts. Now when you go to the ghost menu you will always see this right and any
other ride you enable the ghost feature for until you remove it from the ride
summary page. Make sure you have everything paired you can now pair ANT+ and
Bluetooth sensors which they did not have in the past only ANT+ was available
so it's good to see them add Bluetooth finally. It's still in beta though so use
it at your own risk. Once you start the ride you will see your ghost in front of
you and you can start riding here it looks like I started ahead of my ghost
so I'm just going to slow down and wait for myself so on the top menu you can
see your ghost ride information watts per kilogram, RPM, and how many meters
your ghost is ahead or behind you. What your ghost is doing here mimics exactly
what you did at the time you did that ride. This is pretty nice to see and
they plan on adding the ability to ride other riders ghosts and even pro riders
is actually there in the menu but it's grayed out right now. That's going to be
a good reality check once they add the pro riders. One thing I really like here
is all these signs clearly identify the start of the segment whether it's a
climb or a sprint and all the subsequent signs indicating how many meters you
have left. So here I'm going to try to beat my previous climb time you can see
your personal bests at the bottom here and your current time below that. One
thing I would like to see is the ability to sit a certain time for the Ghost
Rider. So say your fastest time for the vertigo world was 15 minutes long and
you want to improve it by 5 percent or finish in 14 minutes or something like
that so your Ghost Rider becomes more of a pacer to help you get to be at your
time or reach a particular goal you have so yeah let me know if you tried it and
what are your thoughts and what things you would like to see for the Ghost
Rider Ghost Rider is only available in free ride mode. The other feature I want
to talk about here is the coach feature. It's kind of similar to ghost but this time
instead of trying to beat that rider you're supposed to follow them, and just
have the coach rider guide you through the workout. When you select a workout
you have the option to do the workout in ERG mode or coach mode.
With coach mode
ERG mode will be disabled and the trainer will be set to SIM mode. Meaning
you will feel the resistance change based on the terrain. And you have
to adjust gear to reach your target watts. You will see a coach ride
infront of you and the work and instruction on the screen. You will see
the number of watts the coach is doing and that's basically your target watts
and what you're supposed to be doing. You can get dropped by a coach if you're not
doing well and you will be left all alone. Or you can do what I did here and
drop your coach. This feature isn't new it has been around since the software
was in beta. I only did one ride with a coach but I see how it can be fun and
engaging. Ok give them a try and let me know what you think they have a free
10-day trial available and it costs around six-and-a-half $7 per month
depends on the currency conversion and if you've been using VirtuGo for a while
let me know your thoughts on it and all these features I still would like to see
more integration with other workout applications to create your own workouts
or if you have a coach prescribing workouts for you
the workout library is still not as mature as other apps out there like
TrainerRoad for example. And would love to see them on an iPad and Apple TV
that's all I have hope you enjoyed this video hit the like button if you did and
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