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I also did a RL ride yesterday (my first MTB ride since starting Zwift). Definitely noticed an improvement in fitness, faster on the climbs & more stamina overall in the legs. Made slogging through the mud a bit more tolerable!
Hi Zilog. Just taken the cassette off the Neo, that Edco hub treads a fine line between genius and madness!
This the first time you've seen it then? Take it your LBS fitted the cassette for you? I had to use a lot more force than I was comfortable with to fit my cassette! The design is very clever, hopefully will last long-term.
No, I did fit the cassette originally and it was maddening! Took a lot of care this time to remember where the small slot went. Still takes a fair bit of wiggling to get it on. You'd think it'd be cheaper just to ship two freehubs than the fancy Edco one.
Yeah, I think I managed to line it up with the slot right first time but then because of the amount of force required started second-guessing myself and ended up trying all different positions!! Did it come off easily enough?
Thanks for posting the video Crosshair!
Metasequoia - MemberThanks for posting the video Crosshair!
Yes mate, your arse does look fat 😉
Sadly... mine looks a lot fatter 😉
Yes, came off fine.
No probs 🙂
Am i right in thinking that most of the budget end smart trainers only use ant+? I only use an ipad for zwift so it can only pick up bluetooth spd/cadence.
Weeksy is living proof of the Zwift effect- not that I've edited it to give him much glory
Zwift effect being the need to constantly race and attack? 😉 I was expecting to see a nice tight chaingang there 🙂
Lol! I was a guest so didn't know what do to 😀
Zwift effect being the need to constantly race and attack?
LOL i spent a LARGE chunk of the time attacking them, despite the fact i knew it wasn't actually possible.... but every flat section we came to i went on the attack. Not necessarily a sprint, but on the power anyway... head down, click the button a few times and let the big legs do their job....
Part of the reason was CH's posts saying "i need to have an easy day and not push it" etc... So i thought "lets see how that goes then with male pride as i come past you"...
One section out of Lambourne i gave it a good squirt of power as we left the village, it was flat for a decent amount of time... i never once looked back, but i knew CH would be coming after me, he can't resist... as i got half way up the climb to the Ridgeway level, he came up along side me, despite the fact i was climbing out of the saddle and getting the power in there !
On the run back from the Chain Hill section we took the road from Farnborough, i immediately again got on the pace, letting CH overtake me through that village, knowing i'd attack and hold him on the down section towards West Ilsley.... Sadly for me, there's 3 small (in his world), hard (in my world) clinbs that meant i knew it was all over once we reached the climb... of course, i wasn't wrong and he gapped me on the hill.... i then came back at him on the downhill into West Ilsley, but the problem with that was i was then putting out 168bpm effort and on the other side of that village is another hill... then a flat, then a final hill.... LOL... I tried....
Sadly my battery was dead by then 🙁
You were quick along there! You only averaged 0.5mph slower over 7 miles! I'm gutted it wasn't my fastest time though 🙁
This Friel plan I've written better start working quick, otherwise I'm toast!! 😉
It was my quickest on that section by 3 mins... from 24.45 to 21.45 I worked on it i can tell you !
I was trying to begin with but my HR was only 163- mostly because I thought I was way over my last fastest time. Lazy boy!!
My pb is 3 minutes off of Metasequoia's @ 23.6mph!
crosshair - MemberMy pb is 3 minutes off of Metasequoia's @ 23.6mph!
The scary thing is, the neighbours time who was properly struggling y'day has a best of 19.52.... Which just shows how much training and fitness can go up and down over time of course.
Not ridden that section, if time allows I may pop up that way later today 🙂
The scary thing is, the neighbours time who was properly struggling y'day has a best of 19.52.... Which just shows how much training and fitness can go up and down over time of course.
Or that 19.52 was segment sniped on a day with a gale force tailwind!
Feb never a good time for strava hunting though unless you're out in a gale.
Another convert here...
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/virtually-the-next-best-thing-maybe-2017.html
I rekon he'll struggle to get too many Pinkbikers to believe and convert to the cause.
Just for the record it wasn't windy 🙂 Also seen as I'm 75kg and 1.93m interesting that I look wide :)! All good fun yesterday.
It was like summer here this morning so I decided to sneak out for a ride at lunchtime. Hard going in the wind but managed to improve my Strava PB's on a few of the local sections. Best effort was on one of the flatt(ish) lanes where I'm now 58th on Strava (out of 6200+). Ok the wind was helping, but it was still a 27.6mph average speed even if it was only for just over a mile!
I'll probably still do a stint on Zwift later though.
I'm in tonight for a nice gentle Sub 2 at 8.15pm.
I'm tempted by the HIK Crit race at 19:15 but not sure I have the legs for it today.
epicsteve - MemberI'm tempted by the HIK Crit race at 19:15 but not sure I have the legs for it today.
Deffo no race for me tonight... i need a nice gentle one followed by a bath 🙂 I think my legs would probably manage a race, but i still feel at times i'm borderline straining the calf muscles... so trying to not go too crazy too often 🙂
I'll try and join you Weeksy. Parenting duties yesterday morning so no IRL ride for me so did the Pretzel. Over 2 and a half hours on a turbo. I never thought I'd be doing that. Gentle Sub 2 sounds good.
mrblobby - MemberIf it's an indexing thing then well worth getting one of these hanger alignment tools. Can make quite a difference. And surely more time consuming to take it to LBS than to sort it out yourself
That tool looks like quite a good thing to have - even if just for the purpose of ruling things out.
I think it's just a general neglect thing to be honest. The drivetrain needs a clean & the cables have never been swapped out. The bar tape needs replacing, so I'll probably do the whole thing in one go.
The LBS is only a few minute ride from the house, so I could drop it off one day after work and pick it up the next day.....but where's the fun in that, when I could spend the evening shouting at my rear mech, twiddling the H-L screws while scratching my head.....
That tool looks like quite a good thing to have - even if just for the purpose of ruling things out.
It's the first thing to check really, very easy to do and can save a load of indexing hassle, which really should be a quick an easy job. For 22 quid it's a bit silly not to have one in the tool box 🙂
Rest those legs @weeksy & CH 😉
Now I've slammed my stem 15mm I'm more aero than an aero thing that's aero'ing. 😈
Might do some openers later.
I know it's likely to be something I am doing wrong, but does anyone have any tips for how to connect a Bkool Pro trainer to Zwift? The Bkool simulator software sees the trainer just fine over Ant+, but nothing on Zwift.
As far as I can tell it's on the latest firmware version, but I can't find a way of updating it (the trainer) anyway.
Any help is appreciated.
To be fair, I think Metasequoia did it as part of the Compton-Farnborough-Compton full segment so the wind would have largely cancelled itself out.
Mike has a time just 2 seconds slower too.....
willard, have you [i]ever[/i] connected to zwift in the past or is this all brand new to you ?
Once you've started a ride you need to pair your device(s) to the pc semi-manually
Hi All - I've been doing some gentle Zwifting for the past month (just paid up my subs!) nursing a broken collar bone sustained biking in the real world..... I've been following this thread too. I have been Zwifting as 'J.Curtin HNCC' in the mornings about 10-11 so have probably not seen any of you.
I've been learning a lot about FTPs & how to use Zwift - (much from www.titaniumgeek.com) and done the dance with sensors, spindowns etc - and have generally only ridden & done the odd work-out & not raced.
I've just got back on the bike, in the real world, and thankfully don't seem to have lost any fitness after 6 weeks and possibly gained some.........
Welcome in buddy.
It's all new SP.
I have a new Win10 PC for the TV _just_ for turbo-ing and the app will not detect the trainer. It searches, but no joy on seeing it. When you say semi-manually, do you mean clickign on the 'Smart Trainer' button, then selecting the one you have? Both the user manual and the internet seem to suggest that a) the trainer should be picked up and b) it should appear in the app with no issues.
I was just wondering if anyone else had tried it and had found the way to get it going.
It should be auto detected yes.
You have 2 simple ways of working out
1. Put laptop near a known working trainer
2. Put trainer near a known working laptop
Sorry if it all sounds obvious, but currently you have 2 unknowns, you need to narrow it to 1
Right, time to try that with another machine then. Ball ache...
Even more so because they don't have a Mac app and the iOS one would need 50 quid's worth of plug-in things to make it work.
Dammit.
Who is "they"? Zwift? There is a Mac version of the app.
Well, he knows the Turbo, the ant+ dongle and the laptop is working because the BKool software is detecting it surely?
.Well, he knows the Turbo, the ant+ dongle and the laptop is working because the BKool software is detecting it surely?
Missed that bit lol
where do you live, Willard - I bet somebody would let you take your pc to their trainer or else take your trainer to their PC
you can pair the trainer to the PC when it has the bkool trainer software running, yes ?
... so the dongle must work and must be recognised by the pc
do you get this screen in zwift ? :
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Farnborough-Compton
Rode up that way today, that section is made for you boys, ideal for the slightly heavier more powerful gent 😉 Gradual downhill to nullify any weight advantage and a few little kickers to power over. Quite good fun other than the liberal coating of farm mud on the corners!
(I'd also make sure that you shut down the bkool software before starting up the trainer and zwift, just in case that's holding on to the signal somehow - that actually makes no real sense to me but I'd still try it)