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Whorty

Gets free watts from the Atom ;)
Location
Wiltshire
Who is up for the 5pm re run this evening? Would you be kind enough to ride just in front of me and tow me along please.

Thanks awfully
I'm going to have a go in about 10 mins as I have something I need to do at 5 o'clock today. I'm using @PaulT as a ghost ... not convinced I keep the pace up but I'll try and stay with him as long as I can :heat:
 

LBHIFI

Veteran
Location
Liseleje
It would be bonkers not to use your wheel speed as your speed but seeing as Bkool uses your wheel speed to calculate power coupled with the resistance set there could be some mad logic in using your power meter reading and the 'conditions' (weight, slope, road surface) to back calculate speed but that's like admitting that your algorithm to calculate power was wrong in the first place as your power, even with a power meter, is proportional to the resistance set.

Wouldn't we just love to have an open forum with the script writers!
As you say, the simple thing for Bkool to have done, would be to keep the power out of the equation (just show it if it's delivered, else display a calculated value). But my test (above) clearly shows that this is not what they do.
 
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Bored Man

Upstanding Member
Location
Arrochar
Who is up for the 5pm re run this evening? Would you be kind enough to ride just in front of me and tow me along please.

Thanks awfully

Hi,

I would like to try it at 5pm however I'm a complete novice with setting up these things.. I can't imagine being of any help to you though.. I've done 20 laps in the veledrome on my own and managed an average of 24.9mph (if that means anything) and that was ugly..

I'm still not sure about the madeleine thingy... anyone advise please?
 

LBHIFI

Veteran
Location
Liseleje
Hi,

I would like to try it at 5pm however I'm a complete novice with setting up these things.. I can't imagine being of any help to you though.. I've done 20 laps in the veledrome on my own and managed an average of 24.9mph (if that means anything) and that was ugly..

I'm still not sure about the madeleine thingy... anyone advise please?
I think Bill S will start the session. All you have to do is to find it in the Live sessions.

Hints
If you can't see the session, then use the filter and search for "Bill" (without the quotes). That is of course if Bill is the one starting the session.
If the session is password proteced, BIll will post the password here.
If the password contains a "h", then you will need to press "h" twice, since the first "h" will open a help window.
 

BILL S

Guru
Location
London
Hi,

I think I'm in now. I've gone on to Bkool and the chain gang is in my leagues and groups.

I'll try this afternoon.

Thank you.

Jim
Hi Jim. Join the race from the Live Tab. Password will be chaingang

There is a quirk in bkool when typing h it brings up the Help window so if you type h twice it will work. Ridiculous I know but that's Bkool sometimes.

So 5pm warmup start then race starts at 5:10
Make sure your rear wheel is not turning as it countdowns to zero. A top gear start is always quickest and we all do that here. If you jump the start it keeps you stuck on the line until your wheel stops so best to err on the side of caution and pull away a second late.

Enjoy.
 

BILL S

Guru
Location
London
Who is up for the 5pm re run this evening? Would you be kind enough to ride just in front of me and tow me along please.

Thanks awfully

Soarer. I will be more than happy to ride along just in front of you so you can go as fast as possible for little effort. If I'm too slow for you just pull alongside and I'll speed things up a bit.
If I forget this offer please just pass me and ride in front for a bit until I remember. Cheers.
 

BILL S

Guru
Location
London
Hi,

I would like to try it at 5pm however I'm a complete novice with setting up these things.. I can't imagine being of any help to you though.. I've done 20 laps in the veledrome on my own and managed an average of 24.9mph (if that means anything) and that was ugly..

I'm still not sure about the madeleine thingy... anyone advise please?

Yes the madeleine thing will be very confusing to the novice. Don't worry about it. I picked it as a random ride that could be used to substitute a ride into the league which will represent the velodrome session seeing as velodrome sessions are not allowed in leagues. A bit of jiggerypokery was therefore required. All you need to do is after the velodrome session go to your leagues tab and select Col de la madeleine. Do 20 seconds of it or so then end the session and save. I will then use that dummy session within the leagues admin to adjust that session to equal your velodrome time which you will post on here. For the moment, all you need to do is make sure you join my velodrome session at 5pm.
LBHIFI has made a good explanation above.
 

Soarerv8

Über Member
Soarer. I will be more than happy to ride along just in front of you so you can go as fast as possible for little effort. If I'm too slow for you just pull alongside and I'll speed things up a bit.
If I forget this offer please just pass me and ride in front for a bit until I remember. Cheers.
I just need to remember to do it in 3d not video mode the velodrome is stupid in video
 
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