Team BKool CycleChat

[Brendan Parker]

finally got myself home in time to join in, sitting there from 7 poodling along in the warm up, race started and I couldn't see anyone!!
once I had a play with the settings realised I had it on solo ride doh!! tried to get back in once I had changed the settings but couldn't!
so yet again done this one on my own
I will try again Saturday for the 3rd time this week, I'm sure I ll get it right soon

 

[kipster]

I'm glad you all enjoyed cycling in my back yard, I love the rolling countryside round north Hampshire

 

[Breedon]

Rick your not the only one who had a dropped chain bloody thing spent about a minute trying to get it back on.
Roll on Saturday for the rerun.

 

[LBHIFI]

Freezing conditions here. Lungs hurting from breathing that cold air, and got a mild frost bite in my left toes .
AAAC, knowing the kind of watts you can output, I thought you were playing with me, but you never launched that decisive attack.

 

[Brendan Parker]

Arghhhh, first I couldn't get into the ride coz bkool kept disconnecting then after starting 3 mins down I caught Rick and again go disconnected. Normally I can ride on and wait for the server to connect but nowt. My avatar disappeared and I waited a while pedalling away furiously while everyone overtook me before giving up. So so frustrating.
Trying to get in to spectate ....

nice one for the message mate, spurred me on to the end

 

[bobinski]

finally got myself home in time to join in, sitting there from 7 poodling along in the warm up, race started and I couldn't see anyone!!
once I had a play with the settings realised I had it on solo ride doh!! tried to get back in once I had changed the settings but couldn't!
so yet again done this one on my own
I will try again Saturday for the 3rd time this week, I'm sure I ll get it right soon

I saw that and popped in to leave a message for you on the road. hope it helped- you looked rather lonely!

 

[bridgy]

No u had me. ive never felt so ill after a ride. takes me back to my weight lifting days but i was in my twenties then and my body could take it
It was nice to see rick for once he normally way out in front

I was feeling pretty by the end of that as well to be fair!

Have you noticed your power figures look strangely low on Bkool? Looks like another glitch?

 

[bobinski]

Interesting point of view. I think the main problem for BKool is that Zwift seem to be doing a far better job on accuracy of simulation. I expect BKools hand will be forced to fix these issues if they want to progress. There main selling point isnt a selling point for any other turbos so they have a pretty fundamental problem.

After the problems I had tonight getting into and staying in the ride-and what I did wasn't even saved- I have to agree. I was on Zwift with over 1000 other users the other night. No issue at all or on any of the other rides I have done. Trainer agnostic and seemingly working hard to ensure its as fair as possible for all users. But, and it's a big but, for the time being at least it doesn't offer bkools variety or options. Though the training options look pretty good too. Bkool needs to be trainer agnostic. But also fix the darned connectivity issues and server drop outs that affect so many of us no matter what hardware we use to run the software or the robustness of our internet connections.

 

[BILL S]

Freezing conditions here. Lungs hurting from breathing that cold air, and got a mild frost bite in my left toes .
AAAC, knowing the kind of watts you can output, I thought you were playing with me, but you never launched that decisive attack.

I was watching the race up front with interest and thinking to myself, "AAAC is playing with LB", "probably wants to save his energy for a mega race to the line"," poor LB".
Looks like I was wrong though. AAAC had weakened at the end. Another 10 mins..... AAAC Bill S

In my dreams

Well done LB. You're back on top form

 

[rob01792]

I was feeling pretty by the end of that as well to be fair!

Have you noticed your power figures look strangely low on Bkool? Looks like another glitch?

yes I think its the way they average it out cos I'm not fit enough to keep spinning its more of an anaerobic workout where ill power on the off a few seconds and so on cos when I first start my rides the watt r up at about 270 then after about 5 mins u see then dropping but my style stay the same
but I am working a bit on my spinning were ill keep my hr below 160 and cadence over 90
even the cadence average is wrong I use a garmin sensor and wahoo app on my phone and its showing average cadence for that ride at 73

 

[theboxers]

yes I think its the way they average it out cos I'm not fit enough to keep spinning its more of an anaerobic workout where ill power on the off a few seconds and so on cos when I first start my rides the watt r up at about 270 then after about 5 mins u see then dropping but my style stay the same
but I am working a bit on my spinning were ill keep my hr below 160 and cadence over 90
even the cadence average is wrong I use a garmin sensor and wahoo app on my phone and its showing average cadence for that ride at 73

I am sure you can override the bkool pro cadence with an ant+ sensor. Just select it in the settings in bsim.

 

[rob01792]

it is linked up and it displays it in the ride correctly and matches the phone display the actual cadence its jut the average is out compared to my phone
ive just gone through my bkool history and the watts seam to started to drop around mid November

 

[Griffo73]

I thought I was going to die on the chain gang tonight !!!! Not bad for a fat boy

 

[Cjbon]

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I thought I was going to die on the chain gang tonight !!!!

I think I did at the end cheers Rick and bonno for the messages pushed me on at the end.

 

[AAAC 76C]

Freezing conditions here. Lungs hurting from breathing that cold air, and got a mild frost bite in my left toes .
AAAC, knowing the kind of watts you can output, I thought you were playing with me, but you never launched that decisive attack.

I got too big for my breeches tonight.
I thought I would try and level the playing feild by taking the sting out of my legs in my warm up ride by doing one of the Goats sessions I needed to do.
I tried to take the Goat session steady but I can't help my self sometimes and kept finding myself going for it.
The nett result is that I did a pretty good Goats ride, but not as good as I could have, and was left wanting in the Chaingang Session.
I did have a plan and it was working until my legs started emptying halfway.
The plan was not to dash off but to catch you and any others on the first ascent and then sit with you until later in the stage and attack on a climb.
Everything went to plan until I relaised I kept loosing you on the descents where I thought I had a 'BKool Classic' advantage so I ended up digging in on every climb to get back to you until I got to the point where the tank was empty and I couldn't even do that.
I had hopes on using the final rises to get back to you but by then I was spent and backed off because I knew too much further effort tonight would make my recovery too difficult if I want to fight another day.
Question is now do I leave your advantage as it is to challenge myself for the coming stages or do I go for a re-run either live on Saturday or solo on Sunday (depending on how my wife wishes to fill my weekend schedule).

PS - Had a chance to review our stats.
You mention my 'big watts' but considering we are both probably registered at 77kg it is supprising to see such a big difference in our average watts today with mine at W/Kg 4.53 and yours at 3.71.
Perhaps that is something else we could grumble about but at the end of the day the only average figure that matters is 'speed'.