bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Phone playing up inserting random words without me touching the screen...spooky!
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<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
That’s the most sense you’ve made all day!
Either that or dr suess has hacked your phone...
Runexeter
Senior Member
- Location
- Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Hi guy's, been running more the last couple of years but will be coming back to the virtual world.
I still have the Classic trainer but even after reading your convo's don't know whether to use Bkool Beta or the old Bkool indoor. I tried a ride on Zwift with the Classic trainer but it only worked with Watts, from my weight on the turbo I suppose? Went up and down a hill but it didn't seem as good as everyone raves about (maybe I choose the wrong course). https://www.strava.com/activities/1737601810 I don't know how accurate the numbers are using the Bkool Classic with Zwift but would appreciate any feed back on my post...plus Bkool is a lot cheaper a month than Zwift and can't afford both...cheers guys.
I still have the Classic trainer but even after reading your convo's don't know whether to use Bkool Beta or the old Bkool indoor. I tried a ride on Zwift with the Classic trainer but it only worked with Watts, from my weight on the turbo I suppose? Went up and down a hill but it didn't seem as good as everyone raves about (maybe I choose the wrong course). https://www.strava.com/activities/1737601810 I don't know how accurate the numbers are using the Bkool Classic with Zwift but would appreciate any feed back on my post...plus Bkool is a lot cheaper a month than Zwift and can't afford both...cheers guys.
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
@CXRAndy i mentioned ultra sonic cleaners a few pages back but I don’t think you saw it. I’ve since bought one but I’m not overly impressed with it. I’m thinking I may of scrimped a little... or maybe I’m doing something wrong. Do you use water in your’s or one of the cleaning solutions I’m seeing advertised?
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Not an easy question to answer, as it depends...
Bkool has a great variety of routes, videos and bugs. Simple to setup a race against yourself and others (using ghosts or real humans) and even password protect them to keep them private.
Zwift has a only a few routes/worlds (which you can ride both ways however), no videos and few bugs. Difficult to setup races, I think, and not possible to make them private.
With a Bkool trainer, and if you have no power meter, racing in Zwift will be somewhat akward and you will be DQ`ed in many races on ZwiftPower.
Runexeter
Senior Member
- Location
- Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
AAAC 76C
Large Member
- Location
- LIVING THE DREAM
Many thanks Brusgaard I was steering towards using Bkool again tbh, maybe join the Mountain goat league again
we are still running monthly leagues between me bills and a couple more we could do with numbers so join in
I guess there is a chance numbers will grow as the weather starts to change Boss.. trainings going well, I’ll soon be able to to stay wit you for the first minute.. maybe..
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
whats rain
still cooking here - want to go in the shed but would just roast caught 24hr bug and found an easy way to shed a few kg so i am not going on turbo till over the 10st mark again
good luck irw - and a handy tip - next time you see bear poo - don't stop to take a picture - pedal like the wind in opposite direction !
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
how does this work then Bob ? - are there enough of us on cc to join in
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Waiting for rules etc to become public.
Normally at least one team of 6 in each cat. So, say you, Tommy, dean , Martin, Kip and bridgy providing a nice spread in cat B, -3.2 -4w.
That said the expectation is that you race in the category you normally race in Zwift and that will show in zwiftpower and that may mean bridgy has to race cat A
berty bassett
Legendary Member
- Location
- I'boro
cheers - are you in b ?
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Lee, I
No sandbagging allowed.
There’s going to be a heavier reliance on zwiftpower .One team in particular are said to have uniformly weight doped last year .
I am right at the bottom of B and railing against our Team leader about not being in C
No sandbagging allowed.
There’s going to be a heavier reliance on zwiftpower .One team in particular are said to have uniformly weight doped last year .
If you need to degrease something, I use 'Gunk' inside a washing tablet container. water is in the ultrasonic bath. The waves pass through the container, so much so that the fluid warms up with agitation. You can buy all sorts of chemical s to clean various materials. I bought one such which degrease and cleans aluminium without eating into the surface of the aluminium. I use it on a set of carburetors, they came up nearly like new being 30years old.
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
It's nice not being the only cycle chatter awake after all the Europeans are asleep. There are some people who put in "Joy" dishwashing detergent. We use aluminium foil to test them. If you put a piece of foil in and it's working it will go from dimpled to tiny holes.
Another day of adventure in Australia for you?
