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Just got the extended battery for my iPhone bike case.
http://www.wahoofitness.com/Products/Wahoo-Fitness-Wahoo-Extended-Battery-for-Wahoo-Bike-Case.asp
Thrilling stuff! Still waiting on my copy of The Fat Cyclist's book though. Hope it comes before I spend the day on a plane to do the N.I.T.E. Ride in Indianapolis next week.
Can you let me know how well this works (i.e. how many charges or how much longer etc.); I have the Wahoo case & would like a compatible extender kit, rather than having a third party battery in my pocket.
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I got some proper cycling shoes - Specialized Tahoe 2012 Women's MTB Shoes and some new pedals - Shimano PD-M324 one sided SPDs, other platform - for my hybrid; Specialized Vita Elite. Can't wait to get them on and try them, going to try and set the cleats pretty loose at first until I get the hang of it as I'm not the most co-ordinated person in the world
Oh, and I'm applying for a new mountain bike through my company's Cyclescheme - another Specialized, Myka Disc 2012
Getting really into cycling now
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http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=82576
My new wheels just ordered... cant wait to hit the hills))))) 0 -
Ultegra 6750 chainset in Grey for the roadbike, and a pair of M520 cheapie SPD pedals for the MTB as the bearings in the Ritchie's reverted to rubble on my last ride - thought it was just some grit had got into the bearing races, but it was terminal BB collapse and the bearing races look like the surface of the moon now :grumble:0
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Garmin Mount from Veloflyte.0 -
that is a rather Sweeeeeet mount for the Garmin!0
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Just got the extended battery for my iPhone bike case.
http://www.wahoofitness.com/Products/Wahoo-Fitness-Wahoo-Extended-Battery-for-Wahoo-Bike-Case.asp
Thrilling stuff! Still waiting on my copy of The Fat Cyclist's book though. Hope it comes before I spend the day on a plane to do the N.I.T.E. Ride in Indianapolis next week.
Can you let me know how well this works (i.e. how many charges or how much longer etc.); I have the Wahoo case & would like a compatible extender kit, rather than having a third party battery in my pocket.
Thanks in advance :happy:
The battery pack works great! They tout it as giving you an additional five hours, but I didn't run my phone all the way down before firing it up. It charges the phone battery when powered on. It adds a bit of weight and raises the profile of the whole thing up about an inch. But my body is too heavy for me to become one of those cycling "Weight Weenies" just yet. :laugh:
I also don't love the little pigtail that plugs into the bike case, I wanted a more streamlined look with the two connected together, but to do it without the little USB cord would require a significant redisign of the bike case. I used my phone all day Saturday on a five hour flight and used the battery pack for the NITE ride in Indianapolis that night, (about 2 -2 1/2 hours running time), and my phone went from a 30% charge at the start to completely recharged by the end of the ride. Unfortunately, I drained the rest of the battery pack the next day on a family bike cruise and forgot to bring the USB charging cable. So it sits in my laptop bag drained for the rest of this trip.
I was planning on giving it a good workout here the next couple of weeks, but...
Bottom line, so far, it has worked as described, although I am unable to say exactly how much time I got from a single charge on the pack. It does seem to depend on how low your phone battery is when you power it up though.0 -
Picked up a set of Michelin Mud2 tires to go along with the Michelin Jet tires I have.
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More Ritchey WCS stuff: Seatpost and wheels. Not set out to get Ritchey, just worked out that way.0
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My husband and I are new into bikes, and have used bikes that will have to do until we stick with this for a while and can get some bikes that are new, so until then....ok some of you will just gasp when I say I ride a HUFFY.....ok kick me off the site now for saying it...lol...lol...but anyway I was not even going to buy a bike and we saw this 15 speed at the swap meet and well I just had it tuned up, and the bike man said its an ok bike for beginning and since it was $25.00 Im fine with it, so after just over 103 miles ridden I am loving it, so for the topic on here, I got a whole bunch of great stuff for the bike at Costco...ok a big box store is this another No NO on here too???? The box had a nice pump, a front and rear light, a seat bag, a water bottle cage and bottle, and a tool kit with all the different things needed for adjustments.
A few weels ago I got a iphone holder so I can track everything on endomondo, I like having the phone on the bike and not in my pocket.
Im having so much fun reading all these boards on all the bike related stuff...
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Cross riders know what this is...... :bigsmile: Training tools.
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Not really Schwagg... more "due wear and tear" - new chain for the roadbike ordered today. Mustn't grumble, got nearly 1500 miles out of the last one, in weather that's been almost as horrible as a typical british winter. Don't know how much longer I'm gonna be able to hold off going up to 10 speed though - can't source 9S. Ultegra Cassettes in my preferred size without getting them direct from the importer now, at full list price. Decent chains are a little easier to source as some of the top end MTB kit is still 9 speed, but it's only a matter of time before the 9S choice is between cheap monkey-metal rubbish that won't last a month :grumble:
Guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and go 10 speed, then drop the 9speed brifters onto the Dawes Supergalaxy in the loft, so if I want a tourer, I can just cannibalise the XT gear-train from the little red inbred (my MTB)0 -
Picked up a barely used pair of Bontrager R Road/Route shoes and Look Keo 2 Max pedals at the LBS for $150. today. The Shimano SPD pedals have been transplanted to my son's bike and he is anxious and ready to begin riding clipless too! That's pretty Schwaggy for me! My SPD shoes were purchased on eBay for $30. I may put them up for sale myself and use the proceeds to further fund this increasingly expensive obsession.0
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Some new pedals (along with new Specialized Trivent Expert shoes)
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Just got the extended battery for my iPhone bike case.
http://www.wahoofitness.com/Products/Wahoo-Fitness-Wahoo-Extended-Battery-for-Wahoo-Bike-Case.asp
Thrilling stuff! Still waiting on my copy of The Fat Cyclist's book though. Hope it comes before I spend the day on a plane to do the N.I.T.E. Ride in Indianapolis next week.
Can you let me know how well this works (i.e. how many charges or how much longer etc.); I have the Wahoo case & would like a compatible extender kit, rather than having a third party battery in my pocket.
Thanks in advance :happy:
The battery pack works great! They tout it as giving you an additional five hours, but I didn't run my phone all the way down before firing it up. It charges the phone battery when powered on. It adds a bit of weight and raises the profile of the whole thing up about an inch. But my body is too heavy for me to become one of those cycling "Weight Weenies" just yet. :laugh:
I also don't love the little pigtail that plugs into the bike case, I wanted a more streamlined look with the two connected together, but to do it without the little USB cord would require a significant redisign of the bike case. I used my phone all day Saturday on a five hour flight and used the battery pack for the NITE ride in Indianapolis that night, (about 2 -2 1/2 hours running time), and my phone went from a 30% charge at the start to completely recharged by the end of the ride. Unfortunately, I drained the rest of the battery pack the next day on a family bike cruise and forgot to bring the USB charging cable. So it sits in my laptop bag drained for the rest of this trip.
I was planning on giving it a good workout here the next couple of weeks, but...
Bottom line, so far, it has worked as described, although I am unable to say exactly how much time I got from a single charge on the pack. It does seem to depend on how low your phone battery is when you power it up though.
Cool; glad it works well. I may invest myself. My ride today (147 minutes) my phone went from 100% to 9% :noway:
It'd be handy for the longer runs
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My brother has one of these http://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggsparq.php
and I've been wanting to pick one up.
Fairly small and compact. Just put it in bag and can apparently charge up to 4 times.0 -
Finally got a rack for my car. . .0
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My brother has one of these http://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggsparq.php
and I've been wanting to pick one up.
Fairly small and compact. Just put it in bag and can apparently charge up to 4 times.
I've got a Pebble (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-VCC-A007-PBP-5000mAH-Portable-Battery/dp/B003F5WEMO)
It works very well, but it's a bit of a 'Heath Robinson' affair attaching it to the bike; I'd hate for it to go bouncing off down the road as I rode :noway:0 -
Most recent schwag... Just picked up a set of Dura-Ace tubeless wheels for my road bike. Soooooooo nice. No more road vibration. Better cornering. I'm one happy girl. Anyone want to go for a ride?0
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Dropped almost $60 on tubes. Good grief!
But now all the bikes in the stable have spares so we won't be stranded when the whole family goes out for a ride again. Now I have to get some cheap seat bags and levers for everyone. Outfitting 7 bikes gets expensive...0 -
The only thing I've gotten lately is my 100 mile bragging rights sticker! :drinker:
Congratulations on you first of many to come.0 -
Another set of cross shoes-
White is the new black.
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Last thing I bought for my bike was a Blackburn Atom SL 3.0 cyclometer.0
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Got sick of the barometric altimeter on the Garmin 705 saying I was riding down a hill all day, every time it rained (which has been pretty much every ride this summer), so bit the bullet and bought a Edge 800 to replace it a couple of weeks ago. All things considered its a great improvement on the 705, though they've gone a little overboard with correcting the 705's well documented propensity to over-read on calorie values. For the same ride, the 705 gave a reading of 2899kcals, and the 800 came in at 1688kcals.
I really need to do a bit of testing on the Tacx trainer, and see how the 800's figure compares to the actual calories computed from the power development. Apparently, it's possible to "dial in" the 800 by adjusting your height - if you overstate how tall you are, it reads a higher calorie value, understate and it reads lower. So - if I run a series of 5k rides, comparing the calories from the Tacx and the Garmin 800, I can dial in the Garmin figures to match the Tacx (which calculates calories burned from the Actual Power Development at the rear wheel - almost as good as from a SRM crankset according to my physio/trainer)
I have to say, I had already do this process for the 705, though with the 705 you actually amended the rider weight rather than the rider height to get the consistent figures. For the purposes of the comparison test above, however, I set the 705 back to it's "untweaked" status - correct rider height, age, gender and weight, all HR zones based on correct RHR and MHR - the same settings being used on the 800 - which made the 2899/1688kcal difference of opinion slightly scary!
One thing I "may" investigate is the new HR Belt/Pseudo-Powermeter from Cycleops - the Powercal. It's supposed to be more accurate than most of the HR algorithms in it's calorie/power calculations, and it's only the price of a night out in the pub more than a replacement Garmin belt... and seeing as the HR belt that came with the 705 is looking very worse for wear, I'd probably need a replacement soon anyway!
Oh - and I think I may be in the market for a new pair of riding shoes as well - my current Specialized ones are still in great condition, but (and this has completely amazed me!) as I've lost 140lb, even my feet have got smaller! Yep - not only are they not as fat and pudgy, but the reduced weight has meant that my fallen arches have re-arched, and I now appear to need a size smaller shoe!... Who'd have thunk it :laugh:0 -
Got sick of the barometric altimeter on the Garmin 705 saying I was riding down a hill all day, every time it rained (which has been pretty much every ride this summer), so bit the bullet and bought a Edge 800 to replace it a couple of weeks ago. All things considered its a great improvement on the 705, though they've gone a little overboard with correcting the 705's well documented propensity to over-read on calorie values. For the same ride, the 705 gave a reading of 2899kcals, and the 800 came in at 1688kcals.
I really need to do a bit of testing on the Tacx trainer, and see how the 800's figure compares to the actual calories computed from the power development. Apparently, it's possible to "dial in" the 800 by adjusting your height - if you overstate how tall you are, it reads a higher calorie value, understate and it reads lower. So - if I run a series of 5k rides, comparing the calories from the Tacx and the Garmin 800, I can dial in the Garmin figures to match the Tacx (which calculates calories burned from the Actual Power Development at the rear wheel - almost as good as from a SRM crankset according to my physio/trainer)
I have to say, I had already do this process for the 705, though with the 705 you actually amended the rider weight rather than the rider height to get the consistent figures. For the purposes of the comparison test above, however, I set the 705 back to it's "untweaked" status - correct rider height, age, gender and weight, all HR zones based on correct RHR and MHR - the same settings being used on the 800 - which made the 2899/1688kcal difference of opinion slightly scary!
One thing I "may" investigate is the new HR Belt/Pseudo-Powermeter from Cycleops - the Powercal. It's supposed to be more accurate than most of the HR algorithms in it's calorie/power calculations, and it's only the price of a night out in the pub more than a replacement Garmin belt... and seeing as the HR belt that came with the 705 is looking very worse for wear, I'd probably need a replacement soon anyway!
Oh - and I think I may be in the market for a new pair of riding shoes as well - my current Specialized ones are still in great condition, but (and this has completely amazed me!) as I've lost 140lb, even my feet have got smaller! Yep - not only are they not as fat and pudgy, but the reduced weight has meant that my fallen arches have re-arched, and I now appear to need a size smaller shoe!... Who'd have thunk it :laugh:
I'd be interested in the outcome of your tests to calibrate the 800 to give more accurate calorie burn. I am finding a massive difference between the 800 and my old Polar FT4 HRM - not just a little but like 2/3 of the reading at least. I lost a couple of pounds and yet again it's dropped very dramatically. I suspect the Polar was slightly overstated, but not that much!! Interesting that there is such a difference between the Edge 800 and the 705 though. When I was researching the Edge 800 before I bought it they said the calculations are based on a very sophisticated system developed by a third party.
The only other thing about the 800 is still the varying of the altitudes and gains/losses. Even if the start elevation isn't right, the same journey should still give you the same gains or losses, surely, but my commute comes out differently every day!
And yep, some of my normal shoes became too big for me when I lost 5 stones a few years ago - had to buy loads of insoles!!! Of all the places I want to lose weight feet is probably the place I am least bothered about trimming down!!0 -
Just bought some Gatorskins.0
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I'd be interested in the outcome of your tests to calibrate the 800 to give more accurate calorie burn. I am finding a massive difference between the 800 and my old Polar FT4 HRM - not just a little but like 2/3 of the reading at least. I lost a couple of pounds and yet again it's dropped very dramatically. I suspect the Polar was slightly overstated, but not that much!! Interesting that there is such a difference between the Edge 800 and the 705 though. When I was researching the Edge 800 before I bought it they said the calculations are based on a very sophisticated system developed by a third party.
The only other thing about the 800 is still the varying of the altitudes and gains/losses. Even if the start elevation isn't right, the same journey should still give you the same gains or losses, surely, but my commute comes out differently every day!
And yep, some of my normal shoes became too big for me when I lost 5 stones a few years ago - had to buy loads of insoles!!! Of all the places I want to lose weight feet is probably the place I am least bothered about trimming down!!
I think the Polar's are usually considered to be amongst the more accurate of the HRM's. Apparently the Garmins (500 and 800) aren't too bad PROVIDED you get one of those "NEW LEAF" tests and load the calibration file in that they provide. Problem is, as you a) get fitter or b) lose weight the "calibration" drifts and you have to get re-tested. So, its a nice steady little revenue stream for someone. Being a bit of a geek, if the pseudo-powermeter doesn't do the trick, I may pay for a testing session, then try to reverse engineer the calibration file, then possibly "roll my own" so to speak for future updates.0 -
Cateye Strada Wireless (as a compliment to my Timex Run Trainer)0
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New Socks.
Comfy Feet. Lovely.
Nothing more to be said really.0 -
My ride, a 2001 Huffy Mission Bay beach cruiser. Just zip-tied the belt clip from my Otterbox case to mount my phone on it. Also got a new set of bearings and a new crank.
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