Team BKool CycleChat

[BILL S]

@bobinski I got the problem with your avatar strobing again, as you can see in the recordings.

What kind of connection do you have to your network? Is it only me that gets the strobing, or does it look the same to the others?

I guess since you disappeared for a time, there must have been some connections problems, and it carries on offline until it can reconnect.

I suppose it is not able to upload your position to the bkool servers frequently enough, so others get your position updating jerkily and hence the strobing.

If others saw you normally, then it must be a more complex issue and probably down to a bkool bug!

Geoff

I saw Bob perfectly the whole time apart from when his connection was lost.

 

[BILL S]

ABSOLUTELY! I will attempt to simply take control of beverage and food procurement, for the Saturday night. The rest is all Bill!

You're on!
Team orders are to take what we learn here and draft our way to the finish line.

 

[theboxers]

Ok all off to work now. Enjoy the last of the evening

 

[Soarerv8]

well that was rubbish. I was trying so hard but could get no power down. Everything was set up ok but I was going no where.

Also my bluetooth did not work with pc so connected to ipad (had to pay for the app - bloody Apple ) and could hear @Soarerv8 fine but every time I tried to speak it gave me some error message.

@Soarerv8 I really dont know how you manged to give a (funny) running commentary and go like you did.

Turns out that my legs / brain / mouth are in no way connected to each other and able to wobble on independently of each other.

 

[Soarerv8]

Well done Berty, I see you did it all again and got a time of 40:56!

Well done that man!

 

[bobinski]

@bobinski I got the problem with your avatar strobing again, as you can see in the recordings.

What kind of connection do you have to your network? Is it only me that gets the strobing, or does it look the same to the others?

I guess since you disappeared for a time, there must have been some connections problems, and it carries on offline until it can reconnect.

I suppose it is not able to upload your position to the bkool servers frequently enough, so others get your position updating jerkily and hence the strobing.

If others saw you normally, then it must be a more complex issue and probably down to a bkool bug!

Geoff

I use wireless, virgin fibre, superhub 2 so pretty good though the signal has to make its way to the loft. I occasionally see others strobing. I normally use power line adapters but we have builders in at moment and the works seem to have affected robustness of signal so that wireless is actually more consistent

 

[<Tommy>]

I think you were further ahead of me than that, Kipster, at the end. I may have caught up a bit but I remember that you were well ahead.
Sorry Team Not Red, I didn't contribute much at all, but I tried as hard as I could, and didn't have time to get my microphone working!

I thought you put in a big effort rod, especially up the hill. If anything I was aware I wasn't spending as much time at the front as others were. I think next time we'll do even better. I might even remember to put the team kit on....

 

[gbrown]

That is strange! Bkool bug it is then!

 

[Goldwolfie]

@JLaw @Goldwolfie, i could hear you guys, well done great effort

Thanks Skip - I think we need a team tactics meeting before next week's re-run.

Climbing isn't my strength, and I expected @JLaw and yourself to catch me on the climb, so we could use my weight to have a decent downhill speed. I thought if we got to the top of the long climb together, we would have had it sorted.

Unfortunately that didn't quite go to plan, so I had a nice steady freewheel down towards the finish. I had a quick chat with Geoff and he thought @JLaw was drafting nicely in the pack behind me, so I just waited until we got together and enjoyed the quick sprint for the line.

Great fun though, and thanks to @gbrown and @kipster for all their efforts to put this together.

 

[Soarerv8]

Thanks Skip - I think we need a team tactics meeting before next week's re-run.

Climbing isn't my strength, and I expected @JLaw and yourself to catch me on the climb, so we could use my weight to have a decent downhill speed. I thought if we got to the top of the long climb together, we would have had it sorted.

Unfortunately that didn't quite go to plan, so I had a nice steady freewheel down towards the finish. I had a quick chat with Geoff and he thought @JLaw was drafting nicely in the pack behind me, so I just waited until we got together and enjoyed the quick sprint for the line.

Great fun though, and thanks to @gbrown and @kipster for all their efforts to put this together.

Indeed really enjoying this format thanks both for your efforts

 

[Add]

You're on!
Team orders are to take what we learn here and draft our way to the finish line.

The glaring flaw in your cunning plan, is that in order for us to draft over the finish line, we, ( or in particular, I ) need to be somewhere in the vicinity of you during the latter stages of the event. This can only happen if you either stop in Llanelli and go shopping for an hour, buy tonnes of stuff, load it in the bike and proceed to carry it all with you for the remaining 60 miles or we invest in a tandem.

 

[Add]

Turns out that my legs / brain / mouth are in no way connected to each other and able to wobble on independently of each other.

I would quite like to have been tuned into the Radio Soarer Live Coverage channel. I'm sure you could have cheered up what was otherwise a pretty dismal Handicap performance by me. Although I'm sure you would have managed to persuade me, in my extremely fatigued state of mind, to pull you along when I caught you. In fact we would have probably gasbagged our way to the line.

 

[kipster]

It was. I wasn't entirely sure what team you were on or what position you were within your team. Knowing I was #3 for team white, I hit the gas after I passed you and it looked like you might be trying to settle in behind me. My goal was to create enough of a gap that I'd have a fighting chance to hold you off over the last mile or so. Turns out I didn't need to put myself through that pain. It was fun regardless.

I tried to get a gap on you but every time I did the slope downhill got steeper and you just drifted by again, and got enough of a gap that I was really having to push in the last mile to close on you, but just didn't have enough time or energy.

 

[Soarerv8]

I would quite like to have been tuned into the Radio Soarer Live Coverage channel. I'm sure you could have cheered up what was otherwise a pretty dismal Handicap performance by me. Although I'm sure you would have managed to persuade me, in my extremely fatigued state of mind, to pull you along when I caught you. In fact we would have probably gasbagged our way to the line.

I was like Will Smith in a post apocalyptic world spewing out drivel over the radio waves in the hope that somewhere in society was another living being. Poor Berty and Insomnia the other living beings had no way of shutting me up and they were probably hoping a mutant would break into my garage and devour me to save them from ears full of heavy breathing, sniffing and twaddle.

 

[CXRAndy]

O bollocks, just watched the video! If I had known that it was so close I would of possibly tried a little harder. I couldn't see any of the blue team nor Adam for the whole race. I was just chasing down Tommy and hoping Rod or Kipster weren't far behind. Dicing it out on the descent was good to see after but would of been much better live. I did wonder why Tommy was keeping such a high pace, I couldn't hear him for the Merlin engine fan close finish,

"Not reds" need another minute Geoff please

Well done Dingly Dell rider, who ever you were, you masked crusader