Originally Posted by
Ed Wiser
right also groups doing meetup rides will show up on the road. An they do not even see you. As they only see each other. So many people is Zwift are not free riding and are doing things that are not actually free riding. They don’t even see you riding in many cases. But you see them flying by. I had a meetup ride with afrrind the other day and a rider doing a workout would pop in and out of our ride for a half and hour before she finally disappeared.
There are a number of reasons you might not see people who are at the same place on the same road at the same time as you, but (as far as I've ever seen, heard, or read) there aren't situations where there will be riders you see that were actually there at a different time, as you had indicated before. With a few exceptions, the magic of Zwift is being able to ride with other real riders in real time.