BKool Online Training System
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our experience is good in most situations, even in out of the saddle efforts as it teaches you to keep your weight back. The roller itself is a large black number upon which the rear tyre is afforded a bit of side to side movement; this is always good news for your precious frame. Quality seems to be right up there with the more established brands.
The magnet used to monitor cadence needs to be fitted to the inside of the non-drive, left hand crank and the sensor sits on top of the chainstay in a manner familiar to users of Garmin or Polar, and placing the front wheel of your bike in the support will level everything out and you are then ready to go.
Compared to a fluid trainer, the BKool unit is slightly noisier but no where near the level of a fan unit. The coast down time of the unit seems to be very impressive at nearly one minute.
Time to go online…
Unlike most turbos, having set-up all the hardware, you don’t just get on and ride; you have to organise yourself online. So its over to the laptop and onto the website, www.BKool.com, which will allow you to download BSim, the all important software that controls the training sessions and the resistance offered by the turbo trainer unit. New users need to register to use the Bkool website’s many features and so that you can experience the full range of benefits, BKool include a 2-month trial to their Gold Membership package to all new owners. You can then maintain this level
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for a small monthly subscription of 8 euros per month or you can downgrade to Silver (5 euros) or Bronze (free).
Having loaded the BSim software you then pair all of your devices, so that they can ‘talk’ to each other. To do this you will need to insert the ANT+ dongle into a USB port and have all the devices within range. You’ll probably want to add a heart rate monitor strap and a bike computer into the mix as well, but these are the only things that BKool do not
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L-R: electro-magnetic resistance, support ‘bolts’, release handle and sturdy feet
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