A small team and I have been working on an indoor cycling app called Biketerra.
Biketerra is a browser-based 3D app. Among other things, it lets you upload any route and ride it virtually… with accurate physics, terrain, and landscapes.
You can also upload and ride structured workouts (in zwo format).
I posted this as a “feature request” because we’d love to include TrainerRoad integration. If this ever becomes a possibility (either via an API, or letting users download today’s .zwo workout), we’d be quick to adopt.
Just thought I’d share some screenshots of Biketerra thus far, in hopes that some of you would be willing to give it a try and let us know how it goes?
Here’s the in-ride interface (let us know how we can improve this):
The riders in red jerseys are “pacer bots”, and you can control their power. During workouts, they’ll also hold the current workout interval’s power… meaning that if you’re not a fan of ERG mode, you could do a workout in SIM mode and use pacers as “guide posts”.
We’re rolling out a Challenges feature too. The latest challenge, “Paris-Nice 2024”, rewards you for riding the finale of all 8 stages. We’re aiming to add new challenges every couple weeks.
I fired this up the other day to try it. Connection process went pretty smoothly (tried both thru iOS and browser) but my trainer does not like being connected to more than one device without a dance of turning bluetooth off and power cycling the trainer so I couldn’t really get it running (not your fault). I did connect it to the wife’s trainer briefly to see if it worked and it worked right away. One day when I’m not time crunched I’ll give it a real go but it looked cool.
Will give a try at some point this week based on the ability to control the pacer bots alone - this is a great feature. The ability to chase a carrot without erg is something missing from other platforms I’ve tried. It’s what I’d like for the Zwift pacer bots to be able to do, but a 3.2w/kg ride ranges anywhere from 2.9-3.5 based on course and others. This could be great
So I tried again really quickly last night. This time it connected and looked liked power changed and it read some cadence…but the baseline power was about 35000W. Turns out I’m not actually that strong. I’ll try again when I have some more time.
Haha, it’s not quite that retro… but we’re (intentionally) starting out lower-poly to ensure the app runs smoothly across devices. Visuals will improve over time
Keep in mind that Biketerra is a browser app, so there are some limitations in that regard when it comes to hardware / GPU access.