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[Monte]

Likewise - been pretty busy in the real world so got three stages to complete this week.

Just done stage 4, Rick you took 2 minutes out of me...

Lol. I agree about the cadence. Just completed a ride after posting about the upgrade. I do like the new kit feature. The velodrome additions could be good too. Don't know why the countdown needs to be that big though!!!

Had a bad run today. Was well down on what I'd hoped

Rick, funny you said about having a bad run - I pushed really hard on my ride today and struggled to get any power, I finished the stage 2 minutes behind your time which we are normally closer when I'm feeling fresh and push hard.

 

[rob01792]

i just tried to do a league ride but cant access the ride i want to do on the sim even tho its scheduled on the bkool page . its 3 pages showing in my schedule rides all that bkool has put there all league rides then on the sim there about the 1st 10 (10 rides in total) most duplicate 1 ride is showing 4 times any ideals around this
hope u kind of understand what I'm saying

 

[BILL S]

i just tried to do a league ride but cant access the ride i want to do on the sim even tho its scheduled on the bkool page . its 3 pages showing in my schedule rides all that bkool has put there all league rides then on the sim there about the 1st 10 (10 rides in total) most duplicate 1 ride is showing 4 times any ideals around this
hope u kind of understand what I'm saying

Know exactly what you mean Rob. I think we all have this problem.

If you want to do a stage in the cup that's not in the leagues tab, you need to go to the race results and challenge someone. then shut down bkool.com then open up bsim and it should be there under the leagues tab.

 

[BILL S]

Just done stage 4, Rick you took 2 minutes out of me...


Rick, funny you said about having a bad run - I pushed really hard on my ride today and struggled to get any power, I finished the stage 2 minutes behind your time which we are normally closer when I'm feeling fresh and push hard.

Same for me. Tried very hard on the last two rides but seem unable to do as well as usual and make as much power.

 

[rob01792]

Know exactly what you mean Rob. I think we all have this problem.

If you want to do a stage in the cup that's not in the leagues tab, you need to go to the race results and challenge someone. then shut down bkool.com then open up bsim and it should be there under the leagues tab.

yes that what used to happen until today the sim don't show all the rides it show (just counted) 15 of which 5 was Puerto de mainar other ride was there 3 time and some doublers of which I had already done. I scheduled/challenge the tsukuba ride then on bkool.com it was near the end of the 2nd schedule page so it was outside the 15 rides on the sim. only used to have this problem on the tablet so then I would use the laptop but now since the update today its the same on the laptop

 

[Monte]

Just done the update, some cool new features - watching some velodrome games

 

[RickB]

I wonder have they tweaked the way watts are calculated cause thats 3 of us who are finding it hard to get near what we had been averaging.

Anyone up for the race today? I've missed the last few due to being busy so gonna give it a go today.

 

[Monte]

Anyone up for doing the BKOOL event tonight 6 o'clock UK time ?

 

[RickB]

Anyone up for doing the BKOOL event tonight 6 o'clock UK time ?

Yup, all being well I'm gonna go for it. Is it a long drag uphill? Was hoping to draft but that aint going to happen if its a climb!

 

[LBHIFI]

Anyone up for doing the BKOOL event tonight 6 o'clock UK time ?

Participating in a time trial tomorrow, and don't want to burn of energy today. I'll join in as spectator,

 

[Monte]

Yup, all being well I'm gonna go for it. Is it a long drag uphill? Was hoping to draft but that aint going to happen if its a climb!

Oh great, me & hills... #dontdraftme

 

[RickB]

Participating in a time trial tomorrow, and don't want to burn of energy today. I'll join in as spectator,

All the best with the TT Lars.

Todays race should be a more colourful affair if everyone is designing their own kit now!

Oh great, me & hills... #dontdraftme

Just checked and it's flatish to begin with then a big mound in the middle and a long descent to finish. not sure it'll suit me really

 

[RickB]

Anyone up for doing the BKOOL event tonight 6 o'clock UK time ?

Sorry Monte, didnt get into the right race. Saw one which came on a bit early and didnt recognise any names in it so waited. Saw the ride you were in but it didnt say it was a league race and once again didnt recognise any of the names who normally would start the Bkool races. Held off as long as I could, but decided to join the one you were in. Started jumping about on me and couldnt tell if it had started or what was going on so just quit and challenged Bill's time instead (big mistake).

I wish Bkool would make it more obvious as to which session is the actual race session!

Just to top it all off I lost 30-40 seconds when my chain came off and jammed!

 

[Monte]

Well I had a disastrous race, either my bkool (since the update) is playing up or I have the start of a bug/cold or similar but I couldn't get any pace or power into my ride but I was max'ing out on my heart rate.

 

[kipster]

As it has poured with rain all day, scuppering my plans to get out on the bike, I decided to set the bkool back up in the garage, rescue the fan from my son and see if all this actual road cycling has damaged my bkool performance, Well it wasn't too bad, admittedly I didn't push it, with a dismal 81% effort (240w ish) in the Velodrome. In fact I enjoyed it, especially chasing down some of the others in there. A few more sessions and I think i'll be ready to see how much you have all improved when I challenge one or two of you :-)