Team BKool CycleChat

[bridgy]

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Mentioned it earlier but it seems mine has the same as Lars problem. What he describes is exactly how I feel about mine. Bill witnessed it when we were neck and neck for a while on a ride a few weeks back. Any slight hill and I went backwards.

Ah sorry Rick I missed that you had the same problem

 

[LBHIFI]

Mentioned it earlier but it seems mine has the same as Lars problem. What he describes is exactly how I feel about mine. Bill witnessed it when we were neck and neck for a while on a ride a few weeks back. Any slight hill and I went backwards.

Well, I'll be switching tire for the next Chaingang. Should be interesting to se if anything changes.
What tire do you use?

 

[RickB]

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Ah sorry Rick I missed that you had the same problem

No worries Paul. Just seems to be the latest bkool quirk!

 

[RickB]

Well, I'll be switching tire for the next Chaingang. Should be interesting to se if anything changes.
What tire do you use?

Was on a pro3 but just changed to a continental sport ultra. Hasn't changed the situation I'm afraid.

 

[LBHIFI]

Was on a pro3 but just changed to a continental sport ultra. Hasn't changed the situation I'm afraid.

Same tire, also 25 mm?

 

[RickB]

Rick, wasn't this cured by the last small update? I recall having same problem. But it seems to have gone now. I actually uninstalled the software and reinstalled because i couldnt get the update to start and though that might have improved the shallow incline power. Can I ask, what about in Zwift?

Maybe I should have tried a reinstall...
Zwift seems 100% Trainer works almost better with Zwift than in bkool which is very odd.

 

[RickB]

Same tire, also 25 mm?

Sorry should have said. Both 23mm

 

[<Tommy>]

I think Bridgy uses an ultra for what it's worth.

I've just bought a couple so I'll put one on tomorrow to see if I notice a difference

 

[<Tommy>]

I've wondered about the difference between trainers. It'd be cool if there was a way of doing side by side comaparisons.

 

[Whorty]

Rarely my rides load up from Bsim the first time I try to save. I will try twice to see if it will upload, then if it does not, I will close Bsim, restart it, it then always uploads pending rides.
If it didn't upload and Bsim cant find it as a pending, then it looks like its gone into the ether. Annoying

Am I the only person who has absolutely no issues with the SIM? Always saves first time, never get kicked out of rides, can always see other riders. Only problem I have is the rides seem to show a much slower ride than I actual achieve Honest

 

[BILL S]

Yes actually. Race tire and tube blew up some time ago and I have been using a 25 mm Conti Ultra Sport and a normal tube for the whole of November Chaingang, and of course this is the prime suspect. The reason I didn't changed it yet, is because I got a more realistic avg. watt, but my problem is that it really underreads a lot on medium hills.
E.g. in yesterdays race BKool consistently was about 70 watts lower than my power meter. By the time I get over the hill there's noone there to draft.

I had a very bad 25 mm Conti Ultra Sport recently too Lars. It effected my speed noticeably. What I can say for sure is that my speed uphill is a lot less than it used to be. I think I once got a 49 minute ride up Alpe D'huez but now I can only do it in about 55 so it seems they've made quite a large change when it comes to the hills. Having said that I think I'm also a little slower on the flats than I used to be too and sometimes find myself having to change down a gear from top on a zero % gradient, whereas it used to be spinning flat out at near maximum revs in top.

 

[BILL S]

Mentioned it earlier but it seems mine has the same as Lars problem. What he describes is exactly how I feel about mine. Bill witnessed it when we were neck and neck for a while on a ride a few weeks back. Any slight hill and I went backwards.

I remember that Rick, but at the time assumed it was because you weighed more than me, which may not even be the case anymore with me at 78kg.

 

[bobinski]

Maybe I should have tried a reinstall...
Zwift seems 100% Trainer works almost better with Zwift than in bkool which is very odd.

That has been my experience for sometime. The two sims are I think getting closer. It may have something to do with the ant + fec implementation and fact bkool moving also to a Bluetooth offering,

Bkool had 1400 users online at 6-45 yesterday, More than Zwift. Perhaps we are the only ones moaning

 

[CXRAndy]

@BILL S I too remember being able to get into top gear on flats but cannot do it with same cadence anymore unless power is stupidly high and unsustainable.

 

[AAAC 76C]

100 psi.!
I found that my rear tyre had less than 80 psi for the last Chaingang, and couple that with holding the wheel down with a bungie cord destroyed any power I could muster

I tried a bungee way back and found the same thing.
I have now adopted a total turbo trainer riding style now, always keep well back in the saddle.
When and if you stand:
Keep your and bike straight and thrust backwards slightly on the pedals rather and down
Don't lean over the front of the bike rather lift your torso as opposed to being head down.
I probably look like a posh get in uniform if I rode on the road like something from Sandhurst on two wheels.