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bridgy

Legendary Member
Location
Cheddar
@Monte that American guy who drafted me up the big hill then pipped me on the line got DQ'd as his weight was down as 50kg and he therefore did 4.76w/kg - his name was Armstrong and he's from Texas......
 

bobinski

Legendary Member
Location
Tulse Hill
That was interesting, not a lot of difference between the Neo & bkool.

I do have a theory, that depending how close your body weight is to 75kgs (the figure that most trainers calibrate too) depends on the accuracy, ie. I’m a 98kgs rider and I found the bkool numbers way out but where as Paul is 77kgs and we were both scratching our head and concluded that the Neo & the bkool is not that far out...

Monte, that’s really interesting. My experience is muddied by a little weight loss since getting the Neo and my little knee issues ^_^ I do know that despite my weight falling and my ftp going up I cannot beat some times I set on the pro.
I just did a trawl of the Zwift riders group and rider experiences of moving from a pro to a pm of any kind and it varied from 12% reduction in ftp to 30w less etc. And some more extreme examples but that might be due to variance in how the pros sometimes functioned in Zwift, the occasional even easier watts. Mind you there was no discussion of weight. I have a theory around Cadence but it’s no more than a theory!
Were you a bit worried Paul would walk off with the Neo?^_^
 
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CXRAndy

Guru
Location
Lincs
Looked at Paul's recent rides where he was pretty much flat out, one Bkool Pro and One Neo. I know there is a difference in course, so looked for the longest flatish section. Over a ~6 mile section there was a ~2mph difference/advantage on the Bkool, roughly similar heart rate 170(Paul tried harder on the Neo--Fan?!), Watts were 330W(bkool), 285W(Neo).
 

bobinski

Legendary Member
Location
Tulse Hill
Looked at Paul's recent rides where he was pretty much flat out, one Bkool Pro and One Neo. I know there is a difference in course, so looked for the longest flatish section. Over a ~6 mile section there was a ~2mph difference/advantage on the Bkool, roughly similar heart rate 170(Paul tried harder on the Neo--Fan?!), Watts were 330W(bkool), 285W(Neo).

So about 10-15 %?

I am Interested in Paul saying he has become a stronger rider. That suggests the best comparison, allowing for some variables such as fatigue, drafting etc, would be recent rides. Perhaps he can be persuaded to do back to back rides on a 3 sisters coutse of his choosing? A nice mix of flat and bump. ^_^ That said I would rather we all agreed a race date and time, a Kiss race say on a non flat course, of 20 or more miles. You big watts guys should have the advantage on the flat whilst some of us may have more of an advantage on the bumps. Looking at Paul’s figures he should do well on both. Would some of us try harder knowing Paul was there to chase:whistle:
Nothing ventured nothing gained^_^
 

LBHIFI

Veteran
Location
Liseleje
That was interesting, not a lot of difference between the Neo & bkool.

I do have a theory, that depending how close your body weight is to 75kgs (the figure that most trainers calibrate too) depends on the accuracy, ie. I’m a 98kgs rider and I found the bkool numbers way out but where as Paul is 77kgs and we were both scratching our head and concluded that the Neo & the bkool is not that far out...
First of all, having seen the inner bits of the Pro unit, it doesn't look like you can expect super precision, so there's probably a fair amount of variance between the units to begin with.
On top of that, some of us had Bkool dial in and changed our unit configuration.

The result after 3 config changes on my unit, seems to be that it gives me much more realistic avg. watts in BSim, but unfortunately with a wrong distribution (too little going up and too much going down).

The result in Zwift is that I cannot use the Pro as a main source. Zwift is probably expecting a "standard" Pro, not a realistic one ^_^. I have to switch to my lightest gear (34/28) just to be able to keep an acceptable cadence at 0%.

I recently aquired a 4iiii power meter which is now permanently on my commute bike, and I have been using that as power- and cadence source for this- and last months Zwift rides. The Pro behaves very nice when it just needs to change resistance.
 

bobinski

Legendary Member
Location
Tulse Hill
I was trying to pacify @bobinski as he thinks our Pro advantage is much bigger which is why he loses to us in the virtual world ;)

Edit : I think that makes me a Cat C rider anyway, so I think I'll stick there for now and learn some race tactics before I venture into the world of the B riders.

Whorty, you are so very cheeky:okay:
 
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CXRAndy

Guru
Location
Lincs
The result in Zwift is that I cannot use the Pro as a main source. Zwift is probably expecting a "standard" Pro, not a realistic one ^_^. I have to switch to my lightest gear (34/28) just to be able to keep an acceptable cadence at 0%.



That is not right LBH! No way should you be using the easiest gearing on the flat to keep cadence up.
 
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