Team BKool CycleChat

[theboxers]

To be honest, I've been laughing my head off over it ever since, can't believe I made such a beginners mistake. The frightening thing though is that a cyc;list was killed on the CAP Formentor road ths day before, which is a reminder as to just how vulnerable we are at times.

I've spent so much time on the turbo over winter that I'd forgotten that you can't descend at 80KmH IRL like you can on Descending Alpe d@huez on BKool

Only 80??????????

 

[BILL S]

Thursday Chaingang tonight at 7pm. I'm expecting to see a full grid

 

[Bored Man]

Thursday Chaingang tonight at 7pm. I'm expecting to see a full grid

Should be back on the CG again soon Bill. Just waiting for a new chain to arrive after it snapped last week.

 

[bobinski]

Should be back on the CG again soon Bill. Just waiting for a new chain to arrive after it snapped last week.

Tommy has some chains

 

[Whorty]

Thursday Chaingang tonight at 7pm. I'm expecting to see a full grid

Went out in the scary real world

 

[Aleman]

Only 80??????????

I'm a lightweight remember .... I'm putting out 350W to hit that

 

[BILL S]

Should be back on the CG again soon Bill. Just waiting for a new chain to arrive after it snapped last week.

Hope you got a SRAM chain Jim. They last much better than the shimano ones and the joining links are the best too.

 

[BILL S]

Went out in the scary real world

Too scary for me these days especially after seeing Alemans fall off that cliff edge

 

[Aleman]

Too scary for me these days especially after seeing Alemans fall off that cliff edge

I'm wondering if the ToC would be safe enough for me

 

[<Tommy>]

To be honest, I've been laughing my head off over it ever since, can't believe I made such a beginners mistake. The frightening thing though is that a cyc;list was killed on the CAP Formentor road ths day before, which is a reminder as to just how vulnerable we are at times.

I've spent so much time on the turbo over winter that I'd forgotten that you can't descend at 80KmH IRL like you can on Descending Alpe d@huez on BKool

Don’t put yourself down too much mate. That’s our job!

Seriously though I think that could happen to any of us mate. Maybe the guys coming up the hill in the opposite direction just before you turned onto the hill put you off from swinging out too far on to the wrong side of the road. Like you say it could of been a lot worse. How many times can we look back and say crikey that could of been worse! For me it must be dozens of times just dodging traffic in London.

 

[theboxers]

I'm a lightweight remember .... I'm putting out 350W to hit that

Nah ya need 1kw from a pro or classic to get a good start then 125kg to maintain it .

 

[berty bassett]

I'm wondering if the ToC would be safe enough for me

You will be hard pushed to fall of a cliff in Cambridgeshire ! Though some of the potholes have a steep elevation

 

[BILL S]

No re-run for me tomorrow as I'm off to Devon to sample some real ale's. I put my time in yesterday but had the unhappy experience of my laptop battery running out part way through and my screen going blank. I had forgotten to make sure the laptop cable was properly connected. I was about to completely give up and got off the bike, but when I reconnected the laptop cable and pressed the on button, the laptop sprung back to life and the sim was still running even though the laptop had gone into some sort of hibernation mode. So I was still in the game and able to continue, not really losing that much time.

 

[BILL S]

Therefore please someone else start the Saturday re-run if there's any takers.

 

[AAAC 76C]

Therefore please someone else start the Saturday re-run if there's any takers.

Apologies for being AWOL.
My undercarriage is pretty much back to normal so social calendar allowing I will try and make Saturday.
I also need to catch up with the 3 stage BKool Giro.