Team BKool CycleChat

[Randyberlin]

Is that a Bear Gun mount on your handle bars Randy?
I'm sure such a bulky eyesore could not possibly be a mobile phone mount!

It seems fine for my phone.

 

[Aleman]

But there none draftable

Correct, It's all your own work

 

[Randyberlin]

Hi all, been keeping an eye on the forum and see things are going downhill fast with Bkool. The reason I came back was the ability to set up a ride for a time that suits me and add ghosts to chase so if BRVR has this it may an option.
Did someone mention that it's all hills though?

My issue with Zwift was that you could only join scheduled races and not add ghosts etc. At the minute I like to get straight into the house after work and get on the bike.

With the huge gains you've made it would be really interesting to see how you rank now. You need to join at least one race to find out.

Edit: can you guys tell it's a holiday over here and I'm avoiding the chores my wife has lined up?

 

[Del C]

Well, I've given up on the idea of setting up a league for the Handicap this week, as the bkool site is down every time I try it.

I think we should be alright to just start a session on stage 1 of the NC trials chain gang, and see how we get on.

If we start a warm up at 6:50 or so, to start the Handicap at 7pm, plus whatever handicap you are awarded, who is willing to give it a try, bkool allowing, tomorrow evening? The handicap gets better as they are refined, so getting a few sessions under our belt would be a good thing.

Let me know who's in and I'll draw up a list of handicaps.

Cheers,

Geoff

Put me down as a possible.

Not certain I can make it tomorrow, but I'd like to give it a go and will be there if I can.

I haven't ridden a handicap before so a recap on the rules would be good!

Oh, and I haven't a clue what beige means!

 

[keithaitch]

Correct, It's all your own work

Let's get 4 or 5 people into a rouvy race or challenge and see how that goes. As it seems to be a bkool clone then hopefully it will have drafting, which certainly in the league multi person events, Thursday and Saturday add another dimension. You can kill yourself to catch somebody as then you can relax and wheel suck, otherwise we are all just doing tt sessions at the same time. At the moment @Breedon @bridgy and I are up for the rouvy test, can we get another couple to make it a better test. They give you 2 weeks free. Once we have five we'll find a time to do it and then report back to the group.

 

[bobinski]

There were some rumours a while back that Strava had money to buy Zwift. Before that the rumours suggested it might even be bkool. You never know. All that potential waiting to be nurtured and shared with the rest of us.
Is the consensus it’s not possible to set up a handicap series on Rouvy? I will give it a go again

 

[keithaitch]

@bobinski can we count on for our rouvy trial race?

 

[Breedon]

Just tried to set up a race in rouvy piss easy created one under chaingang, to choose a course you can put in flat and it comes up with suitable courses for flat races or if you know the name you can put in that and you can set up multiple races.

 

[bobinski]

yep, you can to make up the numbers.

 

[AAAC 76C]

see things are going downhill fast with Bkool.

Just like old Mountain Bikers

At the minute I like to get straight into the house after work and get on the bike.

Steady now Sir you'll make us all jealous, the rest of us have to wait for Birthdays or Christmas and sometimes not even then!

 

[AAAC 76C]

It seems fine for my phone. View attachment 391656

Looks reasonably modern as tis clearly an android.

 

[AAAC 76C]

Well, I've given up on the idea of setting up a league for the Handicap this week, as the bkool site is down every time I try it.

I think we should be alright to just start a session on stage 1 of the NC trials chain gang, and see how we get on.

If we start a warm up at 6:50 or so, to start the Handicap at 7pm, plus whatever handicap you are awarded, who is willing to give it a try, bkool allowing, tomorrow evening? The handicap gets better as they are refined, so getting a few sessions under our belt would be a good thing.

Let me know who's in and I'll draw up a list of handicaps.

Cheers,

Geoff

I'm in if I can get in:
a) The house in time
b) BSim

 

[JJRobinson]

Wwell, having said rouvy looked good, i've installed succesfullyb but I
am unable to connect my bkool trainer either on pc via ant+ or on the android app. so....keeping looking for alternatives. At the moemnt it's bkool or if it's not working solo training on bigring.

Was a year since last used it but will have a try sometime and if I get it working will report back

 

[<Tommy>]

Geoff I can’t do tomorrow night. But I’ll definitley be there next week. Great to have you back in the fold bud

 

[RickB]

With the huge gains you've made it would be really interesting to see how you rank now. You need to join at least one race to find out.

Thanks Randy, I'm afraid I've lost a good chunk of those gains as I've only cycled about a dozen times since end of august!! Had got my ftp up to 308W for real world racing which is average at best!