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

[BrianEvesham]

Busy fettling the new crud catchers onto the T3.
Reminds me of Airfix kits when I were lad! sure I will get there in the end.

 

[Nomadski]

River is now halfway in the garden
After midnightr the fire brigade called to see if we were alright. It's not bad yet.....
Dad's funeral today

Sorry to hear that. Take care.

My SKS Raceblade Long's arrived this morning, will tackle them later. Are they difficult to attach?

 

[Stonechat]

View from the front door. River should be behind the trees about 100 yards behind the railings

At present we are in no danger but depends on the rate of rise

 

[morrisman]

Speaking of Garmis, mine have been very slow to acquire the satellites lately. I normally had the satellite picked up almost instantly. Now it can take several minutes. Not being used to that happening, I sometimes forget to hit the start button for quite a while. I hope it is just some seasonal thing. It even seems to do it with mostly clear skies as well as when it is cloudy.

I am having similar problems but put it down to only using it every two or three days. The longer between uses the longer it takes the GPS to sync, I believe the device remembers the satellite positions and works from there but if too much time has elapsed this saved data becomes less and less accurate. (This is all from my TomTom experience but probably fits Garmins as well)

 

[L14M]

View from the front door. River should be behind the trees about 100 yards behind the railings

At present we are in no danger but depends on the rate of rise
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Take care mate, your only down the road from me and have a few friends in the stains area! Hows it rising atm?

Btw anyone know if i can set my edge 200 to record in miles and elevation in meters?
Cheers,
Liam

 

[SWSteve]

Take care mate, your only down the road from me and have a few friends in the stains area! Hows it rising atm?

Btw anyone know if i can set my edge 200 to record in miles and elevation in meters?
Cheers,
Liam

You're playing with things that shouldn't be touched. Walk away from that madness

 

[SWSteve]

Didn't cycle in as stayed at GFs, when I woke up the rain was torrential and it was blowing a gale. i wouldn;t have wanted to cycle even if I had to as the journey is on some quite busy roads that are regularly used by lorries/buses/large vans so swaying across the road is something I am not risking

 

[SWSteve]

@Stonechat I hope the rain held off for you

 

[y2blade]

Another 45mins on the TT tonight.
Apart from arsebones feeling slightly tender I'm feeling great, very good to be back in the saddle

 

[Jon89]

Had the day off so went for another ride today. Managed another 70m but it was hard going. Particularly along one b road where the roads were a bit flooded and there were times I was cycling with water knee high, then I was nearly knocked off by the spray from a lorry going in the opposite direction.

http://www.strava.com/activities/104646305

Sorry to hear that. Take care.

My SKS Raceblade Long's arrived this morning, will tackle them later. Are they difficult to attach?

I got mine last week and they didn't take too much fiddling. Just a few adjustments to make sure there was no rub.

 

[SWSteve]

Think I'm going to buy some later this week/month as well so i can get out with a club (the one I've been out with before have major beef with people who turn up on a wet day without guards) and probably some overshoes/decent gloves as well. Had enough commutes with wet/cold hands and feet where I need to fix it

 

[morrisman]

22 miles this afternoon, sunshine, which was good, winds, which was not, and one flooded road in Stoke Mandeville where I had to take to the footpath

 

[RWright]

I am having similar problems but put it down to only using it every two or three days. The longer between uses the longer it takes the GPS to sync, I believe the device remembers the satellite positions and works from there but if too much time has elapsed this saved data becomes less and less accurate. (This is all from my TomTom experience but probably fits Garmins as well)

Thanks. That would fit my situation exactly.
I was getting worried about my Garmin being messed up.

 

[L14M]

I'm back from a 4.21 mile cycle, 12.5 ave speed pulling in for cars on some roads as we cant both fit etc. Max speed of 19mph and 139cal's and 70ft elevation gain. Quite happy would have been out longer but its getting busy on the roads!

I've been bitten by the cycling bug, i'll be buying some padded shorts soon!

 

[Nomadski]

Had the day off so went for another ride today. Managed another 70m but it was hard going. Particularly along one b road where the roads were a bit flooded and there were times I was cycling with water knee high, then I was nearly knocked off by the spray from a lorry going in the opposite direction.

http://www.strava.com/activities/104646305



I got mine last week and they didn't take too much fiddling. Just a few adjustments to make sure there was no rub.

Epic ride that, especially considering the conditions out there. Great average speed too!


Bit off topic this but downloaded the official Wiggle GPX for an 80 miler in March I'm doing, and I noticed when I put it on my Garmin 800 it seemed like it had the route all correct, but only displayed 67 odd miles as total distance? Whats that all about?