Team BKool CycleChat

[keithaitch]

Brake adjustment on a 1938 claud butler short wheel base racing tandem.

 

[Mark68]

Feels like I'm not going to be able to do tomorrow night's stage as I have just come down with man flu 😩☹️👎. I really cross because I woke this morning feeling fine but as the day has gone on I started feeling rubbish.
Had a nice walk with the kids at lunch and boom.
Never know it may go as quickly as it's come cross fingers.

 

[perswe]

Bill is about 8 mins down on a time he set previously. The new simulator is definitely harder but your ride doesn't seem right. Try again tomorrow for a comparison

I’m generally 3-4 minutes down on my pre-update times on 20-30 minute rides. Same output or better, but very different speeds. More realistic...unfortunately. I kinda tought I was the coming man for the Tdf. But it seems I might not be. I guess it is more fair now also. So, more fair and more realistic.

I think I prefer the good old days. 😀

 

[Randyberlin]

Bill is about 8 mins down on a time he set previously. The new simulator is definitely harder but your ride doesn't seem right. Try again tomorrow for a comparison

Yeah @Boredman at least a couple more times to get an average..

 

[Randyberlin]

Brake adjustment on a 1938 claud butler short wheel base racing tandem. View attachment 498882

Beautiful. On the 2018 tour of Cambridge I ended up with the classic bikes for a brief stretch and there is nothing prettier than those works of art on wheels.

 

[Bored Man]

Yeah @Boredman at least a couple more times to get an average..

 

[keithaitch]

Beautiful. On the 2018 tour of Cambridge I ended up with the classic bikes for a brief stretch and there is nothing prettier than those works of art on wheels.

I hope to do L'eroica on it in a couple of years when my wife has retired and we have a bit more time. My parents toured the dolomites on it in 1948.

 

[Randyberlin]

I hope to do L'eroica on it in a couple of years when my wife has retired and we have a bit more time. My parents toured the dolomites on it in 1948.

No wonder you’re such a strong rider. Some new genetic studies are showing you can inherit epigentic changes from your parents. They must have turned on some endurance genes.. I think mine gave me the overeating genes..

Again a beautiful bike how about a few more shots?

Edit: you’ll need to get those antique water bottles with the cork and the wool jerseys

 

[Brusgaard]

Not much difference here...

 

[Bored Man]

Not much difference here...

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Bit more consistent than mine @Brusgaard ... my trainer is all over the place since the last update, ( I may have mentioned it before?). I can crest a climb, the watts drop, the speed increases however, I’m still grinding up hill for anything up to 5 seconds.. couldn’t achieve 200 watts today, well barely...

Me n @Goldwolfie are there or thereabouts and he walloped me by 4 minutes over 10 miles .. mind you, he is keeping quiet. He may have been training hard or borrowed @Whorty’s inhaler?

 

[JJRobinson]

Bit more consistent than mine @Brusgaard ... my trainer is all over the place since the last update, ( I may have mentioned it before?). I can crest a climb, the watts drop, the speed increases however, I’m still grinding up hill for anything up to 5 seconds.. couldn’t achieve 200 watts today, well barely...

Me n @Goldwolfie are there or thereabouts and he walloped me by 4 minutes over 10 miles .. mind you, he is keeping quiet. He may have been training hard or borrowed @Whorty’s inhaler?

Sounds like you are suffering the same problems as me with Bkool. I know they say it has made it more realistic but for me, the power was realistic - It mainly matched my power meter in the real world. Now I am on the limit to be nearly 100w down which is a bit disheartening lol
I have been using Rouvy recently which is about 60-70w up for the same effort and closer to my actual power.

 

[keithaitch]

No wonder you’re such a strong rider. Some new genetic studies are showing you can inherit epigentic changes from your parents. They must have turned on some endurance genes.. I think mine gave me the overeating genes..

Again a beautiful bike how about a few more shots?

Edit: you’ll need to get those antique water bottles with the cork and the wool jerseys

I'll send a couple more shots today when I've finished cleaning it. The will jerseys we have but the bottles are modern as are the cages. I like riding out but I'm not a vintage nut.

 

[Whorty]

Bit more consistent than mine @Brusgaard ... my trainer is all over the place since the last update, ( I may have mentioned it before?). I can crest a climb, the watts drop, the speed increases however, I’m still grinding up hill for anything up to 5 seconds.. couldn’t achieve 200 watts today, well barely...

Me n @Goldwolfie are there or thereabouts and he walloped me by 4 minutes over 10 miles .. mind you, he is keeping quiet. He may have been training hard or borrowed @Whorty’s inhaler?

He may have the same EPO as me too

 

[keithaitch]

I'll be there, with all available ghosts, tonight at 18:00 CET. Choose you victim, even if it's you and drop them on the last little kick.

 

[shimceltic]

I'll be there, with all available ghosts, tonight at 18:00 CET. Choose you victim, even if it's you and drop them on the last little kick.

I'm on call, managed a ride this morning but it will depend on if my phone rings tonight