That's very true - although my "bkool watts" were 100 more as well last year!
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<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
If you are looking for a hill climber - we have a new secret weapon - Darren
though his mums says if he gets detention again she will take away the internet
i cant get near his times
but i am not bitter
Don’t worry Berty, you still the original moutanin goat as far as I’m concerned! Well you and your little Whippet mate Breedon! Now, if I can just find a way to build a double harness in time for the Pyreneese...
Hi per,
Yes, of course you can join the Chain Gang group and participate in our leagues.
edit: As Andy says, please make a request to join at http://www.bkool.com/group/show/72022
Hi Bill, thanks! I requested to join today on the website. Looking forward to racing with you all! p
theboxers
TheBoxers on Cycle Sim sw
- Location
- OTC (on the couch)
Welcome to my life for the last 30 odd yearsI tried and failed to talk myself into going for a proper bike ride this morning. You know you’ve got a problem with motivation when saturday morning children’s tv seems more appealing...
Well at least I'm trying to change that
AAAC 76C
Large Member
- Location
- LIVING THE DREAM
Welcome we will look out for a British Passport before the Nation's Cup, or you could just change your profile in BKool so you look like a ;
Brit.
I didn't recognise you with the new look - nice bit of Matisse, very classy
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
Welcome to my life for the last 30 odd years
Well at least I'm trying to change that
It’s all we can do bud! Small steps and all that...
<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
I didn't recognise you with the new look - nice bit of Matisse, very classy
Good spot
. They had a show of his cutout stuff in London a couple of years ago. I bought a few prints including this one. (From the gift shop not the gallery!)
Im sorry guys for late start today...i messed up something :-) but it was fun anyway!
Steve
Senior Member
- Location
- London and Manila
hi Everybody, belated Happy New Year, everything re hospital went very well and i'm now back on the bike, had to adjust profile weight from 83kg to 75kg , just a wheel turner for my first effort however i'm not sure if i have to enter on a spreadsheet or it will get picked up, time 42.34
http://www.bkool.com/bkoolSessionHistory/showSessionSummary/5827211
http://www.bkool.com/bkoolSessionHistory/showSessionSummary/5827211
Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
- Location
- Blackpool UK
Hi Steve,
Good news on the hospital, and you are back on the bike. For some reason the BKool Leagues are not working all that well, so we are recording this months Nations Cup Qualifier CG Here. I have added your ride for now.
simonsch
Senior Member
Yes, it is stuck on non-FEC firmware. I had an email discussion with them, where they said it should update firmware from a PC, but not from a Mac (which is what I have been using). I have a cheap gamer-PC on order to run the turbo (mostly so I can leave set up for my wife to use when I have my laptop elsewhere) so should be able to test that soon. I have to admit that part of the motivation in fixing that is to try out Zwift, which many people in my cycling club are on.
My subjective impression is that my trainer is slightly too hard on the flat, and slightly too easy on steep gradients. Hard to really tell without ground truth. The only one of the big climbs I have done in real life is Ventoux, and its hard to tell if the additional perceived difficulty in real life was those damned flies. That is quite a long ride on the turbo though...
AAAC 76C
Large Member
- Location
- LIVING THE DREAM
If you have a really early Classic and you have not sent it back for a hardware change, either under warranty or at your cost then I do not think it will update.
I say this because I had the same issue and because it was over a year old they wanted more than half of the cost of the turbo to update it.
I had an early Pro with the same problem as well.
Ended up buying a new turbo as the older firmware behaves so differently to the newer ones.
simonsch
Senior Member
I bought it 2nd-hand off eBay in Jan 2014, so I guess that marks it as pretty early. It has the USB socket. I guess I'll find out. If not, too bad - not worth paying to get it update, better as you say to get a new turbo. I think in that case I'll just be happy running BKool for a while, and get a newer one eventually.
I do like the video playback feature of BKool, which makes their software worth it to me. I like exploring new routes, and its not the same if its just computer-generated imagery loosely based on the map.
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