Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[welsh dragon]

am learning to like hills, you have to where i live, so far this week completed ide hill, toys hill and titsey hill................didnt like them at the top, i hated hills, but there good for the soul arent they????

Errrrr. No

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Errrrr. No

do you want to swap houses? from what I can tell you hate hill and live in the mountains, I love mountains and live in flat Cheshire! think we have this the wrong way around!

 

[welsh dragon]

do you want to swap houses? from what I can tell you hate hill and live in the mountains, I love mountains and live in flat Cheshire! think we have this the wrong way around!

We definitely have this the wrong way round then... its a done deal

 

[Stonechat]

Well I have been out and conquered one of the beasts (i.e. a hill!)

Went to Marlow and did the climb of Winter Hill or is it Quarry Wood Hill.
Rest of the ride had only smaller hills
48.1 miles @ 14.4 mph (Was not trying for a fast speed, knew I had a good hill to get up
912 feet of climbing

An interesting feature of today's route was crossings of the RIver Thames

1. Staines Bridge
2. Albert Bridge (I think) between Old Windsor and Datchet
3. Victoria Bridge between Datchet and Windsor
4. Eton Bridge aka Windsor Bridge (a pedestrian and cycle only bridge) Between Windsor and Eton
5. Maidenhead Bridge
6. Cookham Bridge
7. Marlow Bridge
8. Maidenhead Bridge
9. Eton Bridge
10. Victoria Bridge
11. Albert Bridge
12. Staines Bridge

I had not intended to make this a collection of Bridges it just happened

The hill was not far out of Marlow. Average of 8% and quite a few sections of 12%.
The toughest part was at the first hairpin
It was necessary to take a wider line as the gradient on the inside was steep.
http://www.strava.com/activities/158710949
Needless to say only 1 PR and VV score went down!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I do the bridge thing, only with motorway bridges

 

[Nigelnaturist]

err... do you want a visitor for that week? Tis way too flat around here for 8,800m of climbing. If I don't correct my garmin error (houses doing vertical elevation whilst I am stationary at them) I average around 350-400m of climbing on my 'commute'... hey I have just checked my stats and for 305km (190 miles) I have managed an entire 2,000m of climbing in the last 5 days! tbh I haven't even considered entering that one... just looked it up and typically it starts just after my possible next mini-tour as well, so can't even include those figures....

Yea you can .
Well back to the usual rainy. rides, but as usually on a friday a bit broken up, what a day to test a white saddle.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yea you can .
Well back to the usual rainy. rides, but as usually on a friday a bit broken up, what a day to test a white saddle.

I try to keep it legit you know! though I may confess to having taken auto-pause off one time I though I might not quite make the target time by about 30 mins so with auto-pause off.... in the end my ride time was more than enough as it was....

I do remember trying to explain what IT Admin was to a young lad I taught who went on to be an excellent administrator at the school I worked at. He loved my definition "legalised hacking"... I so loved using the command lines and various other means of accessing any machine on the network without the user knowing and then ring them up and say 'fixed it'. ahhh well - out of the game now...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn the only thing I do is join separate tcx files from the same day, like last Friday, and I don't do that as often as I did, and then only if something has happened, but thats pretty rare.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Went out with Max for a "proper" ride on his new bike after school. It started raining just as we set off but nothing seems to put him off, in fact he berated me for suggesting not going.

I did peel away on cow Shh corner and was rewarded with 3rd place overall.

http://www.strava.com/activities/158765113

I think it's going to be fun with him this summer.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn the only thing I do is join separate tcx files from the same day, like last Friday, and I don't do that as often as I did, and then only if something has happened, but thats pretty rare.

I found you can change settings on the garmin whilst it is still recording, so part way through a certain 6 hour ride and with the thoughts that I would not make it to the required 7 hrs 45 mins, and looking at missing it by a tiny margin, I decided to see if I could change a certain auto-pause setting to off. We were running a test that day with the edge 705, 200 and 500 (my OH uses the 200, and me the 500, the 705 had been a touch flaky) so I always had that to fall back to. It let me change the auto-pause setting to off mid ride and carried on recording... I promptly exceeded the required time by more than the auto-pause time so it was a pointless exercise in the end, but I learnt something 'interesting'.... and that was I needed have bothered!

 

[Kins]

Twas raining and blowy when I rode to work, so wrapped up, stuck a hat on and donned the waterproofs; finished and it was lovely. Now I got rid of my mountain bike commuter with panniers, (to be replaced) I had nowhere to put anything. Yesterdays ride home was wet from rain, todays was wet from sweat from all the cloths I was wearing. Can't win!

Showered and feasted and wondering whether to pop out for an hour.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I found that on the 705, like on the mapping page (opposed to the course mapping), I have ascent. decent, and elevation sometime grade (though I think this feature isn't to accurate), or gps accuracy, if I am using mapping though I tended to use the course one, which has time & distance to next course point, and then speed & distance, the main page I have speed, distance, cad, avg cad, hr zone, avg hr, avg sp, and time ridden 2nd page I change but keep time of day on it, if I am using a course I have the bryton showing cad speed in Km/h and distance in Km as I tend to do distances in Km i.e. 60, 70 or 80 Km if on a decent ride otherwise like today I just use then to record
The 705 has been pretty solid since I had a play with it, I went back to firmware 3.1 and set it to smart recording opposed to every second, the bryton I use as backup as it records everything and on yesterdays ride there was only 0.01 miles difference over 50.23 miles the bryton showing 50.22 miles. The biggest difference is in elevation the 705 is pretty close to that corrected with rwgps usually within 10% usually rwgps is a touch higher, though strava tends to higher than both using the data from the unit, the bryton is way off, the raw data actually records it as a liner graph until correcte on rwgps and strava (and few other things) though the bryton site does this as you upload it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

ours appears to have an issue with something draining the battery even when it is turned off. If the battery goes completely flat the only way of getting the device to recharge (and that is even with a new battery) is to dismantle the device, detach cable to the sensor inside that detects the device being opened, reseat said cable and reassemble the device. Still it was a freebie because it was known to have an unknown fault so we can't complain! My OH uses it mainly... I haven't really played with it other than setting it up for him and installing maps (of which we have been through many and numerous versions because he only likes OS maps and can't read the OSM maps I have been putting on to it!) don't ask... it is driving me mad!

 

[beardy01]

Errrrr. No

Come to think of it your right was just trying to gain a positive from the pain

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn It sound like a short of some kind but i am no expert there, I can whack a few components in a case to make a computer work, and some basic repairs but thats it, my unit came with various folders and file names I couldn't delete, so I backed up the main garmin folder formatted it went through a few firmware versions and so far since then it hasn't faltered, so I hink for £45 + pp it was a bargin a few scratches and a missing sd cover amazing what a bit of insulation tape can do when cut right, I will keep looking for a non working unit with a good case, but its not a priority, some decent wheels, shorts a some new tops,
I am thinking of some planet-x A57 wheels there isn't much difference in weight between them and the RS11, I am hoping the wheel repair will last 2 months as that is the minimum it will take me to save for them, I am running one on the rear at the moment and so far I have been impressed but then I am no expert.