Team BKool CycleChat

[keithaitch]

Just a little positive update on my health. The COVID19 test was NEGATIVE which is quite nice to say the least!!!!

Looks like it is just some flu or bug that has been giving me a fever and draining energy the last week or so.
I still have a fever, but hope I may now be on the mend now rather than getting worse. My forehead actually feels colder than yesterday.

Missed the last 5 km of today's Giro stage as I fell asleep on the couch and slept an hour+, which is way more consecutive sleep than I got last night!!!

Think I'll sleep (better) tonight, and who knows, maybe I'll be ready to race ride on Saturday?

The number of newly (last 7 days) infected in my local area has now risen to 45 (98/100.000) which puts on into the 8th place of most infected pr. capita nationwide (15th yesterday and 94th about 2 weeks ago). Most of the infected are 10-19 years old and related to one or more school classes. They have a far better chance of going through it with no or only mild symptoms.

Have a nice race tonight, and thanks for your concern!

Great news

 

[keithaitch]

Countdown working tonight?

Yep

 

[shimceltic]

Glad to hear you're not infected Brusgaard, hope to race soon.....

 

[Brusgaard]

Recording of tonight's race available here in a bit:
View: https://youtu.be/pNJZQ1od540

 

[shimceltic]

Recording of tonight's race available here in a bit:
View: https://youtu.be/pNJZQ1od540

Can't wait for my highlights in the 1st min

 

[keithaitch]

Another frustrating night on bkool.....there is a limit to my patience. One drop out I can accept but the second and then third was just too much especially as it was every time I put the hammer down to try to close a gap. I had hoped to catch berty and Andy and work as a three but when a3 second gap becomes 30 it's time to admit the fates are against you. So I just sat up and played rabbit for @shim but then 6tth drop out just as we were cranking it up for the sprint. Time for a beer me thinks even though it's only Thursday. Saturdays rerun for me, hopefully drop out free. Great rider @AndyMacca you nearly caught him. @Brusgaard any tips on a cable to take the ant+ dongle closer to the kickr core and any idea why the laptop can't pair to the kickr via bluetooth, it just hangs in connecting then says try again. I'm on windows 10. The android phone can connect no problem.

 

[shimceltic]

I was hoping for a sprint and realised that you were going backwards

 

[berty bassett]

Thank you so much for the invite 👍
Really impressed with the sim , so much different to how it used to be , I know there wasn’t any major changes in slope but it felt very smooth
The draft has changed as well . I am guessing the more you use it , there would be niggling bits that would get on your nerves But I was very impressed and nice to see some old faces
Well done all on the race
And thank you Randy for the invite 👍

 

[AndyMacca]

Can't wait for my highlights in the 1st min

You were mental in the first minute, just gone! 🏎

Thanks for the tow @berty bassett I was blowing up keeping up with you, once we got to about 13mins I realised I might be up for a 20min PB so kept the hammer down.
I keep saying 'that was the hardest ride ever' but I think that one was, my avg HR was barely below my Max HR. Still managed to bag a new FTP, I don't trust my Wattbike power numbers but I think it is consistent so I'm still happy with the improvement.
@keithaitch

I had hoped to catch berty and Andy and work as a three

Yep that would've worked, we would definitely have closed the gap but I think @Messab had some spare in the tank, well done!
Sofa time now.

 

[shimceltic]

Think

You were mental in the first minute, just gone! 🏎

Thanks for the tow @berty bassett I was blowing up keeping up with you, once we got to about 13mins I realised I might be up for a 20min PB so kept the hammer down.
I keep saying 'that was the hardest ride ever' but I think that one was, my avg HR was barely below my Max HR. Still managed to bag a new FTP, I don't trust my Wattbike power numbers but I think it is consistent so I'm still happy with the improvement.
@keithaitch Yep that would've worked, we would definitely have closed the gap but I think @Messab had some spare in the tank, well done!
Sofa time now.

Think of me as one of the Kenyan pace setters, I'll get you up to speed in the 1st km then my job is done!

 

[berty bassett]

One question - can you connect up to strava or do you have to down load and do it yourself ?

 

[shimceltic]

One question - can you connect up to strava or do you have to down load and do it yourself ?

Auto sync

 

[AndyMacca]

One question - can you connect up to strava or do you have to down load and do it yourself ?

You can find it under 'My Profile'

For previous rides (like tonights) you can go into 'My Sessions' then once it shows the map there should be an option to Export it

FIT format will work then upload to Strava as normal.

 

[AndyMacca]

Another frustrating night on bkool.....there is a limit to my patience. One drop out I can accept but the second and then third was just too much especially as it was every time I put the hammer down to try to close a gap. I had hoped to catch berty and Andy and work as a three but when a3 second gap becomes 30 it's time to admit the fates are against you. So I just sat up and played rabbit for @shim but then 6tth drop out just as we were cranking it up for the sprint. Time for a beer me thinks even though it's only Thursday. Saturdays rerun for me, hopefully drop out free. Great rider @AndyMacca you nearly caught him. @Brusgaard any tips on a cable to take the ant+ dongle closer to the kickr core and any idea why the laptop can't pair to the kickr via bluetooth, it just hangs in connecting then says try again. I'm on windows 10. The android phone can connect no problem.

I've found any compatible extension lead worked, in fact the one I use now is probbaly from the USB1.0 era, since moving to a PC and ANT+ set-up I've had no issues whatsoever with Bkool, go back 9 months and I was going crazy with all the issues, I even bought a new Tablet which had both Bluetooth and Ant+ but that was still garbage, a proper laptop or PC is the way to go. Bluetooth is a tricky beast, the key thing to know though is that only one device can be connected to Bluetooth at a time, if you've synced your phone to the Kckr then I suspect the app/phone is holding onto the relationship still, try unsyncing from the app or flicking the bluetooth off entirely for a couple of mins.

 

[shimceltic]

Got my 4 day pass for gran canaria bike week activated, now waiting on the hotels and flights getting sorted.