Bkool - Anyone got one?

You upload your own rides or use the custom ones, they have tour routes and things like that, the more people add to it the more you can do aswell

The trainer reacts to the gradient making it harder to pedal depending on the steepness up to 20%

You can also race people, people can join your ride and you can race against them, you can also set up bots with alternating skill levels
 
Do you know more about the uploading rides, and how they create a course out of them? Is it an instant thing where it's done cleverly automatically based on the gps/elevation data, or more of a manual thing where you have to wait.

20% is great - most other things I've seen only go up to 10/12%. I can certainly feel the difference between a 15 and 20% climb on the roads... well it's only 5%, but it's 33% harder, isn't it... then 25% is 25% more again.

I think I may give it a go... it doesn't look as nice as Zwift... but the variety .... and vs bots if there's no one to ride against or with. I wonder if stuff like drafting works.
 
Apparently there was a massive backlog for the 3d creation thing... a year or so ago. I don't know if they sorted that out. I can't be bothered waiting 3 months for them to return a route to me. (Was expecting hours or something).

Blah- guess I'll stick to zwift. or just go outside and spend all my money on baby wipes.
 
I tried this software out a couple of weeks ago.

Positives:
Can resistance control my Tacx trainer
App for Android, no need for PC or idevice like most software on market
3d user created routes can work but 3d scenery is very boring
Some very good user videos uploaded, spent a fun hour riding around a Danish island

Negatives
Route created using Garmin tcx export had some very funky gradients in it. Same route made using ridewithgps export worked fine
App has limited functionality, you can't search the whole database for rides, only its picks. I used PC version to search and schedule activities then ride them on my Android app.
No TrainerRoad style workouts as such, can be done but a lot of hassle.

I think this software works best for virtual rides of routes you've ridden before IF you managed to video them at the time. (They do free software to sync video with tcx files) . Their 3d world is less interesting than Zwift ( which is deeply underwhelming) and to be honest my washing machine as well.
 
From what I'm told when you upload your ride you have to wait a matter of hours for it to be up and running for you, the scenery etc is generic. My friend said he popped a tcx file onto the database and it took a hour for them to approve it.

I'm a little inbetween yes and no on this, its quite expensive at £488

Like I said, my friend raves about it, might be worth having a go on one and seeing from there.
 
James07 said:
From what I'm told when you upload your ride you have to wait a matter of hours for it to be up and running for you, the scenery etc is generic. My friend said he popped a tcx file onto the database and it took a hour for them to approve it.

I'm a little inbetween yes and no on this, its quite expensive at £488
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One of the earlier Tacx smart trainers (i-genius) already does this. Admittedly they were more money, but I know you could just load a .gpx file directly into it and ride it. I imagine most of the current Tacx smart trainers are capable, just depends if the feature is still there...

I imagine it's only a matter of time until Zwift have a feature like it.
 
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