Team BKool CycleChat

[AAAC 76C]

Not everyone in the rankings still rides Bkool - my Zwift rides (and @Breedon 's) show up in the rankings as we have Strava linked to Bkool. Breedon often shows up as highest climber of the week/month due to all the climbing he's doing in Zwift. But your plan is still a good one so worth a pop

I see!

 

[AAAC 76C]

They've been around for a while and have proved very useful. IIRC the Sky deathstar coach was filmed doing a close pass on a cyclist and the footage was sent on to them, after being sold to various news outlets first probably. There is a website with many incidents being shown https://cycliq.com/videos/. Bloody expensive for only a 720 camera though.

Edit.

Found the sky video

Note the 'nearly' in the title.
There are so many 'nearly' rants on the infernalnet which later turn into confrontation.
If the guy missed you and really wasn't intending to hit you then let it go or give them as cheesy grin like Whorty does.

 

[Daddy Pig]

I get the same and I think Whorty's pretty much summed it up. If you're going the same speed, but the uphill gradient has reduced it will assume less watts. I don't think it will really slow you down or anything because the watts come from the speed not the other way round. The opposite of this effect is when it shows you doing pretty high watts on descents while you freewheel as long as your wheel is spinning

I have a cadence device so it knows thatvim not spinning and hence no watts.
Must try switching it off and see what that does!

 

[Daddy Pig]

Not everyone in the rankings still rides Bkool - my Zwift rides (and @Breedon 's) show up in the rankings as we have Strava linked to Bkool. Breedon often shows up as highest climber of the week/month due to all the climbing he's doing in Zwift. But your plan is still a good one so worth a pop

I'm sure you can select indoor only in the rankings...

 

[Daddy Pig]

Exactly the problem I had setting up the rides. Could only get the three C.G. ghosts on that route for some reason.

Ive notices this in a few rides, such as the la liga stages. I could only find @Whorty to keep me company but he still left me for dead!

 

[Randyberlin]

I have a cadence device so it knows thatvim not spinning and hence no watts.
Must try switching it off and see what that does!

My pro drops the watts way down in the downhill at anything more than - 1.5% and I ease off. The speed increases when I back off the watts and the numbers turn blue.

 

[AAAC 76C]

PS: When watching the Sky 'Deathstar' Bus thing, again, I chanced across this 'tortoise and hare' video.
It's gets quite funny when you click what is going on.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24TyYw5xrU

 

[Daddy Pig]

PS: When watching the Sky 'Deathstar' Bus thing, again, I chanced across this 'tortoise and hare' video.
It's gets quite funny when you click what is going on.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24TyYw5xrU

Funny maybe, but that idiots going to get knocked off one of these days or knock someone over.

 

[Whorty]

I see!

You've not been drinking enough vin rouge then tonight

 

[AAAC 76C]

I'm sure you can select indoor only in the rankings...

You can
Never thought to do that.

 

[AAAC 76C]

You've not been drinking enough vin rouge then tonight

Not for the past 60 days and 60 nights.

 

[Rod McG]

Does anyone know the logic behind the bots? Yesterday I added 5 bots to Col du Lautaret: 2 Diesels, 2 Hills and a Lapdog. I am currently Active 5, and the bots were meant to be Active 6, although I saw that two were actually Pro 3. The route was hard work and I didn't even make Active 5 so I should have been left behind by all the bots, but they were even slower. Why??

 

[<Tommy>]

Does anyone know the logic behind the bots? Yesterday I added 5 bots to Col du Lautaret: 2 Diesels, 2 Hills and a Lapdog. I am currently Active 5, and the bots were meant to be Active 6, although I saw that two were actually Pro 3. The route was hard work and I didn't even make Active 5 so I should have been left behind by all the bots, but they were even slower. Why??

I think it’s a combination of ability and personality. Some bots will stick with you even if they are fitter than you (lapdog) where some will try and drop you if they can. Maybe some of them were just having a bad day

 

[Rod McG]

I think it’s a combination of ability and personality. Some bots will stick with you even if they are fitter than you (lapdog) where some will try and drop you if they can. Maybe some of them were just having a bad day

Or maybe they saw I was having a bad day and didn't want to discourage me. Compassionate robots, whatever next!

 

[AAAC 76C]

I'm sure you can select indoor only in the rankings...

Well that puts me:
1st UK Vet 2
2nd UK absolute
6th World Vet 2
38th World absolute (1 place below Jacob)
So perhaps there are not as many UK BKoolers as I thought.