Despite there being a clear appetite for rowing in Zwift, the reality is that a rowing machine is not a bicycle. A Concept2 rower will not connect to Zwift out of the box. The Zwift team occasionally hint at a future rowing mode, but it has been “coming soon” for years. I would not hold your breath. That said, people do row in Zwift. So how are they doing it? The key challenge is that Zwift expects to see a bicycle. To make this work, you need a way to translate data from the rower’s performance monitor, the PM5, into something Zwift recognises as a bike. This means inserting a device between the rower and the device running Zwift that can perform that translation. There are already solutions available. Some are relatively expensive, such as the NPE CABLE, which costs around £90 in the UK. Others are technically free, like the RowedBiker app. The downside with RowedBiker is that it needs to run on an additional device separate from the one running Zwift. If you already have a compati...