ERG impossible to pedal with Elite Suito when RPM's drop

Hi,

I bought a Elite Suito (second hand) and I can’t use the ERG mode. TD sets the power to 150W, I start and then after 3-5 seconds, I’m already at 50W and bam the power is becoming so hard I can’t pedal anymore. I have 2 assioma pedals. I tried to play with many different options: smooth power, power match… Nothing works. I don’t know if the issue is coming from the Elite Suito since I don’t know what TD is requesting the trainer to do.

Resistance mode is fine but I need to train in ERG mode.

Hi we have a Suito and it works fine. I would start with only the suito connected and see how it works. Still having problem try re-installing our app, for some reason that seems to help some strange problems. Make sure no garmin, wahoo or other device could be connecting to the trainer.

Thanks for the quick reply, I just installed Trainer Road and it works out of the box, I don’t have time to investigate why trainer day doesn’t work. Sorry…

Ok, glad you found a quick solution :slight_smile:

So Alex, I am Alex V as well :slight_smile: We realize now what we have to do to improve this for Elite trainers. They can’t handle low RPM very well. We will fix this and you can try our free version when we do. I will update here if you decide you want to try TrainerDay again and save some money.

I would be very happy to use back Trainer Day ! Note that I’m a paying customer of TD until September 25, 2025 and I took a monthly subscription of TR (20 euros/month is really too expensive on their side).
BTW, one feature I like there are the comments during the workout.

Oh cool. You mean the popups when you are working out with nice tips and stuff? I am happy to add some months to you account as soon as we can fix this. It really seems to only be an issue if you get to low RPM on a hard interval and they Suito seems to become impossible to pedal. We are testing if just pressing the down arrow temporarily helps in this locked up state. But we think we know exactly how to fix this. It seems to only affect Elite. This is this “Spiral of death” is what everyone calls it. We did not know how to duplicated until we saw your message and tested it.

yes, I mean the text explaining why you do this exercise, what you can expect, what to do after… Talking about the 4 quadrants… This is very nice, I read them. They help me during the exercise.

BTW, is there an API where I could import my own workouts and plans ?

We have the functionality to add text descriptions in our workout editor and some workouts that people create have them, our import ZWO file for example supports adding them. We don’t have any public API for importing workouts or plans. It would be a bit risky as we don’t have a ton of validation but you could do it via non-public fairly simply. Just go to the create workout page to see them. Your api token in the cooke is yours and semi-permanent so fairly straight forward.