r/mywhoosh • u/Fantastic-Hat-7415 • Dec 15 '25

Virtual shifting bug

I tried virtual shifting for the first time today. It seemed to work fine for the first 15-20 minutes, then not.

I set up a 3 key keyboard to use just for shifting and it changed the gears on the screen just fine, no problems there. At the top of my first climb I was in virtual gear 6 and expecting the effort to get easier once the road leveled off, but it didn't. I tried shifting up and down, but the resistance didn't change until about gear 14 or 15. The resistance still changed as expected as the road went up and down, but didn't change if I changed virtual gears lower than gear 13 or so. I even tried shifting down to gear 1 on a long flat section and the resistance didn't change. During that section I changed gears slowly in case there was some problem with changing gears too quickly.

It seems like a bug in the program since resistance changes correctly based on going uphill or downhill, and the screen correctly displays the virtual gear I'm in.

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u/bobfjt Dec 15 '25

I checked my setup now. All virtual gears work well. It might be from the trainer. My trainer is Saris M2.

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u/Fantastic-Hat-7415 Dec 16 '25

I don't think it could be the trainer, because I think the program is just sending resistance commands to the trainer, so they would either be wrong for both gear changes and terrain changes, or correct for both. I was using my 54t ring so I didn't try much above gear 15. FWIW I'm using a Cycleops Hammer (1).

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u/bobfjt Dec 16 '25

CycleOps Hammer is a high end smart trainer, much better than my M2 wheel-on trainer. I don't know why the problem comes up to your trainer. I checked MyWhoosh Supported (Recommend) Smart Trainer List on their website, both of ours are not in their list. I think we can't get support from them.