u/slurpnfizzle

Hi I'm pretty new with like 10ish hours of playtime so far. I'm still trying to get my camera settings dialed.

Overall they feel pretty good but when I do whips the front of my bike disappears and I'm having a tough time gauging how far to bring it back straight for landing. Is this common and most people just go off feel?

My current setting are
FOV 115
Tilt 10%
Pitch 15%
Corner anticipation OFF
Lock to bike OFF

Is there something I'm missing?

I have read the FAQ.

Yesterday I was cycling around sunset and something got into my hood while I was rolling. I could hear some kind of screetching sound as I panicked to knock whatever was in my hood out.

Later when I got home I looked up videos of bats making sounds and some of them sounded just like what was in my hood. The thing though is I never 100% could confirm it was a bat.

Today I went to urgent care and told them what happened and they gave me the PEP and HRIG shots. What are the chances that there was a bat trapped in my hood on a bike ride and it actually bit me though without me feeling it? It just seems like such a 1 in a billion chance. I'll continue getting the follow up shots, but I feel a bit silly that I'm going through all of this and I can't even confirm for sure that a bat touched me.

Yesterday I participated in the first group ride of the year for one of the local road bike clubs.

I didn't really know what to expect but my fastest bike is a steel endurance bikepacking type gravel bike.

I went with the slowest group and got dropped roughly 2 miles in. I wasn't dead last there were a few people I could keep up with but it definitely hit my ego a bit.

Now I'm wondering if I was on a proper road bike it maybe I could keep up with them a bit. Usually on my setup I can average 13-15mph depending on route. I saw on Strava that a lot of the front guys for the slow group had an average of 17-18.

Do you guys think I should be buying a whole new bike? My other idea is to get some narrower tires. Currently running 50mm G One RS. But im also worried that my 500mm handlebars make the aero situation way worse.

EDIT: Thanks for the feedback everyone. It sounds like the consensus is I could make marginal gains with optimizing my setup but I should really focus on making myself fitter. If I'm going to spend money, maybe tires but nothing else for now.