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[AAAC 76C]

I'm in, but will just be riding tempo, till the last km

wait for me then
please

 

[shimceltic]

Who won?

 

[shimceltic]

Ignore that, thought you meant handicap race

 

[AndyMacca]

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Wish I'd popped on here before that climb.

 

[AndyMacca]

General question but it's been bugging me about my own set-up. Indoors I can avg 260w for an hour sometimes a little more, I'm doubtful I'd be able to match that outside (even bearing in mind my Wattbikes ~5% generosity) , on Sunday I pushed quite hard avg 153bpm and managed 220W for 80mins on my Vector 2's, by 235W I'd probably have been in the red. Is anyone else able to hold their indoor watts outside at a similar HR? I appreciate cycling outside puts greater load on the body engaging core muscles whilst braking/balancing/cornering etc. but is that enough to explain the difference?
I'm tempted to go to Kent cyclopark and just smash it for an hour without traffic or junctions and see what that gives.

 

[keithaitch]

General question but it's been bugging me about my own set-up. Indoors I can avg 260w for an hour sometimes a little more, I'm doubtful I'd be able to match that outside (even bearing in mind my Wattbikes ~5% generosity) , on Sunday I pushed quite hard avg 153bpm and managed 220W for 80mins on my Vector 2's, by 235W I'd probably have been in the red. Is anyone else able to hold their indoor watts outside at a similar HR? I appreciate cycling outside puts greater load on the body engaging core muscles whilst braking/balancing/cornering etc. but is that enough to explain the difference?
I'm tempted to go to Kent cyclopark and just smash it for an hour without traffic or junctions and see what that gives.

Can't help I'm afraid as I have no power measurement on the bike. I'm very old school: if it isn't hurting, your not making enough effort, if it's hurting you are doing it right, if it hurts too much and you have to ease up you haven't trained enough.

 

[microkid]

General question but it's been bugging me about my own set-up. Indoors I can avg 260w for an hour sometimes a little more, I'm doubtful I'd be able to match that outside (even bearing in mind my Wattbikes ~5% generosity) , on Sunday I pushed quite hard avg 153bpm and managed 220W for 80mins on my Vector 2's, by 235W I'd probably have been in the red. Is anyone else able to hold their indoor watts outside at a similar HR? I appreciate cycling outside puts greater load on the body engaging core muscles whilst braking/balancing/cornering etc. but is that enough to explain the difference?
I'm tempted to go to Kent cyclopark and just smash it for an hour without traffic or junctions and see what that gives.

Outside is a lot harder due to different environment. Pedal pushing indoor is easier My FTP is 268 but I've been only able to keep that (or higher) for >20 minutes outside (max 282 afaik), but I can't see me doing this for an whole out outside. Maybe indoors...

 

[BKIain]

General question but it's been bugging me about my own set-up. Indoors I can avg 260w for an hour sometimes a little more, I'm doubtful I'd be able to match that outside (even bearing in mind my Wattbikes ~5% generosity) , on Sunday I pushed quite hard avg 153bpm and managed 220W for 80mins on my Vector 2's, by 235W I'd probably have been in the red. Is anyone else able to hold their indoor watts outside at a similar HR? I appreciate cycling outside puts greater load on the body engaging core muscles whilst braking/balancing/cornering etc. but is that enough to explain the difference?
I'm tempted to go to Kent cyclopark and just smash it for an hour without traffic or junctions and see what that gives.

No mines always lower outside. For example my last two bkool rides averaged about 230w whereas an outside ride in between averaged 200w. Granted that was 2 hrs rather than 30 mins indoors but the peak 20min power was also 30w lower than the peak 20min power indoors.

 

[shimceltic]

I don't have power meters but my strava watts on outdoor rides are about 140, I don't nearly kill myself though and prefer taking in the scenary

 

[Brusgaard]

Just downloaded and installed the new 5.30 beta version of BSIM, which is now called BKOOL Cycling. They seem to have removed the search by User/Nick name!???

How on earth do we join the correct Chain Gang / Handicap race in an easy way going forward?? Search the route by route name and then go through them all until we find a familiar face under Cyclists???? Not very intuitive!

Lots of other changes to the in-ride user interface. Something got better and other things more annoying. Buy hey, they fixed the message/paint function, only a year after they messed it up!

Link to the beta: https://bsim-beta-bkool.s3.amazonaws.com/game/bsim2setup.exe

 

[microkid]

New Bkool v5.30 beta available

Windows: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bsim-beta-bkool/game/bsim2setup.exe
Mac: https://bsim-beta-bkool.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/game/BkoolIndoorBetaInstaller.pkg

 

[microkid]

You can still search by rider/user/nick name

 

[Brusgaard]

You can still search by rider/user/nick name

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Are you on Mac? The box says "Route name:", but when I start typing I see the "user" symbol in the drop down. This can not be selected however... So all I get is "No hay resultados.." when searching for my name.

 

[microkid]

Mac yes. No problem. I searched for a rider of a live session, and found it

 

[Brusgaard]

Mac yes. No problem. I searched for a rider of a live session, and found it

OK, must be a bug in the Windows version then... Stupid having the box say "Route name:", when it is not only for route name...

Anyone else tried the beta on WIndows (10)?