It worked and I've sent you a friend request so I can test it out if that's ok with you. I think this might be how we get in touch with new members of the league to try to get them more involved. I'm going to work on a standard welcome message directing people to this chat and the live sesssions.
I've got an email saying you left a message but didn't see the message.
oh dear that looks terminal, what happened?
Yep had another crack at that one on the new bike making my times a bit better, going well until a cough started up around 12mins in, still smashed my old ghost though.
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But it did highlight some weird differences I thought I'd share. The bike had peak power nearly 100w higher than Bkool but also some very low points in the power curve 30w or so (freewheeling I guess) but Bkool didn't have these at all so I guess I have to take back my original comment about power being the same (maybe it is when it's consistent) but it's clear the 'outliers' are being smoothed out and therefore they are meddling. I guess when catering for so many pieces of hardware they have to apply bias here and there to try and level the field. I thought I'd dig into it and extracted the TCX file from Bkool and the .FIT file from Wattbike but it created more mysteries than it solved. Average watts was within 1w, average cadence within 1rpm but here's the kicker I managed to line up the two timelines in a spreadsheet and they do track each other but oddly the ride in Bkool has a timeline 30secs longer, all the numbers just gradually drift away from the .FIT timeline at which point I realised life must have more to offer and decided throw the towel in.
oh dear that looks terminal, what happened?
Yep had another crack at that one on the new bike making my times a bit better, going well until a cough started up around 12mins in, still smashed my old ghost though.
Apparently the cracking and then fracturing of shimano fc 6800 ultegra cranks is a known problem and they will replace it with a r8000 crank WHEN IT CRACKS! This has caused a few accidents and if you have an ultegra crank set you should check it out and hopefully you clean your bike often enough to notice it before it becomes critical. I've contacted shimano, but they haven't replied yet but I'll be taking it in to my wonderful lbs and asking them to get it replaced. In the meantime I'll be on my second bike for a while so probably no chance of pegging back @AAAC 76C this month and I expect @perswe @BILL S @Mark68 and @Brusgaard to show no mercy and kick me while I'm down.oh dear that looks terminal, what happened?
Yep had another crack at that one on the new bike making my times a bit better, going well until a cough started up around 12mins in, still smashed my old ghost though.
🍻 and 🍕 in response to your last sentence.Whenever I do a ride I get a couple of entries in Strava, Bkool posts one and the watch another, now I'm getting a third from the bike
The email link from Bkool saying someone's left a message doesn't link to the message. I have put in a support request to Bkool to let them know. I think the messages were on my ride last Thursday but if you are friends with more than a few active bkoolers the messages soon become hidden if they are not within the 3 pages of your wall.
Thanks for the welcome to the league. I'm interested in the rides you do on Thursday evenings. What's the best way to know which ride you are all doing? Is it Bkool Simulator, live search, cycle chat?
If you want to see more messages, just edit the URL. Set offset to 30 and max to 100 and you'll se a lot more. Next change offset to 130 and so forth... The system is kinda slow, so be patient.
I'm on a Garmin Fenix 3 HR, I think it's 4 years old now. I have used it in the pool, with no issues, for distance. But you need an external HRM, I use the Garmin Swim. Some of the newer watches have swim capable optical HRM built in but are spendy (I have one on order, hopefully before Christmas).
Mine is water resistant but obviously failed, garmin said I can post back for another one. The vivoactive 3 looks good value at the moment
