Any Londoners likely to sign up for the DD? I ask because i don't drive and if any are driving up can i cadge a liftWill obviously contribute grudgingly to cost of petrol and less grudgingly to a slap up motorway meal
Rick, I was having trouble with the update but this afternoon I took the unit down from the loft and sat it next to my laptop in the living room. No USB extension, just had the dongle right next to the unit. It then updated without any problem. Now interested to see if it will feel any different.Have tried doing the firmware update 4 times and failed every time!Anyone else having diffs?
Dis stage 4 there this morning rather than heading out with the club. Completely different effort required to Bkool! Was almost odd busting myself that much for so long right from the start so no real improvement in my Bkool result - maybe worse if anything!!
I just got the firmware (I placed it right next to the dongle without extension cable too) and did some short tests. My superpower is definitely gone. The superpower was when I went into a +11% ascent carrying good speed, and the speed would just slowly decrease (with blue numbers). I only needed to pedal to prevent stopping the session. From discussions here during the winter/spring, it seems I'm not the only one to have that power, and "the slingshot" is probably related to the "superpower".
Just signed up to DD 2017. May be madness, but I'm willing to give it a go! Gonna have to get some training in over the next 12 months now
I just got the firmware (I placed it right next to the dongle without extension cable too) and did some short tests. My superpower is definitely gone. The superpower was when I went into a +11% ascent carrying good speed, and the speed would just slowly decrease (with blue numbers). I only needed to pedal to prevent stopping the session. From discussions here during the winter/spring, it seems I'm not the only one to have that power, and "the slingshot" is probably related to the "superpower".
In my 1st test I got stuck in 50/11 on a 19% section and had to stop the session, and start another one before I could pedal again. This could indicate that the on/off is history too, and would make it very important to be prepared for the steep sections, since you would have to get off the bike if caught in the wrong gear.
My second test was to check if the "half-speed" was still a problem, and I'm glad to say it's not. This was when I powered up to a speed beyond 70 kph, and suddenly both power and speed would drop to half, sometimes a complete stop. This prevented me sprinting at the finish line, except if it was uphill. It also put a restriction on my downhill.
So first impression is that things seem to have moved in the right direction
Could send Carruthers to collect you trouble is you would have to risk your bikes being suctioned to the top of the car a very scary experienceI figured I'd keep it civilised and get a train bob. Assuming there's a train that goes to Wales of course
Failing that we could ask Soarer to pick us up in his helicopter?.
There will be two shorter routes alongside the main 121 miles (12,227 feet of climbing), 95 miles (9,957 feet) and a 60 mile route to be confirmed.
Personally 60 miles was always enough for me (I never got beyond 70 miles), although I might have managed 95 at a push!
We'll make it mate, however painful it is. So long as we stick to the training over the next 12 months, and in my case shed a couple of stone, then it should be do able. On your own it would be hard, but in a group somehow it feels easier somehow. A few years ago when I was heavier and less fit I did the 3 Peaks Challenge with work colleagues; it was not wanting to let anyone else down that drove me on to get to the top of the last mountain. If we can get 3 or 4 of us at the same pace we'll get each other through
I find it amazing that changes to the firmware alone can make such significant changes to things like momentum and blue numbers!
If I were sitting down to design the system I would presume that most of these "adjustments" of the simulation would be done in the software, and the firmware would mainly just apply the requested resistance and feed back the wheel speed. I wonder what reasons there were for putting such complex algorithms into the firmware?
For sure the ANT+ F-EC protocol is unlikely to have them, and nor would other makes of trainer. This may explain why the other trainers, like the KICKR, were treated so differently in respect of downhill speeds, etc. It is really strange that these things would be the responsibility of the firmware, rather than the simulation software. This would mean they would need coding twice, once for the bkool firmware and once in the simulation software for all trainers apart from the bkool!
I have to say, I remain very impressed by the bkool software in general, while at the same time being surprised by how many flaws it seems to have, and how little testing there seems to be before releases. If I had the resources, I'd love to get involved in doing something similar. Sounds (even) more interesting than designing the security and networking software I've done up to now...
