yea, i like my garmin, but i use a chest strap for riding.
YAY, E-bikes!
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I sometimes carry a GPS in my pack, generally don't look at it when riding. If in unfamiliar terrain, sometimes use one Android app or another for navigation.
while i can't speak for everyone, when riding with my garmin, i turn it on when i start my ride, then turn it off when i stop.
Mine read 184 at the Whiskey Off Road in Prescott and I think that's pretty accurate. Max effort races are pegging in the 170-180 range, which seems pretty accurate. Watch gets GPS, Glonass and Galileo, so does pretty well. We are doing an enduro race on Friday based solely on Strava, to cut down on the timing complexities with Strava. I helped set the segments and spreadsheet for adding up times.
dude, you can't lose ...
https://road.cc/content/news/84868-digital-epo-smash-your-strava-times…-cheating
That.
No chance for that, all riders have to be using strava and tracking/uploading the ride instantly, then the person at the bottom with the laptop is entering the segment times in real-time or immediately after they finish the course. There will be marshallers to make sure the entry is clear/fair, sending riders every 30 seconds or whatever, but this cuts down on the complexity of timing an enduro, which tends to be a clusterf*ck.
Yes, I and a few organizers have been pre-riding it. Obviously this event isn’t for all, limited slots and if you don’t have a reliable device you are SOL. Every competitor is required to do 3hrs of trail work too.
Agreed on the music. I used to think like you for the HRM, but now I really love riding with one. I have an HR that can get really high for my age and I find it really helpful to pace myself, especially before a climb.
I log 7500ft of altitude as soon as I walk out the garage with my bike!
So tell me more about the 9-10k vert days you're logging.
I'm with stupid.jpg
I really like wearing my fitness tracker. I have no concerns over getting and staying in my target HR, but it's neat to be able to look at it afterwards and see how you've done. It also tells time, which is convenient.
don't act like you've never hopped on one and started trying some tailwhips...
My only experience with those things is grabbing them from the dumbshit little kids at the skatepark with no situational or spacial awareness and chucking them over a fence.
True story.
True story.
on my e-commute yesterday I found I just went e-faster for less time than the same speed with less e-effort. Oh well.
If I wasn't already going to be kicked out of the DH forum for the enduro stuff, I'm now commenting on XC riding in an E-bike thread in the DH forum. But oh well.
I just don't like wearing the chest straps so I do without. I might be getting a new Garmin watch with optical so will see how it goes, but I'm not pro enough to care what my HR stats are normally. I do like seeing distance and elevation though.
I had the OG Vivoactive and its battery life was barely long enough for a couple of massive rides I did. We have a yearly Big Epic Arse Ride which has been a 7 - 8 hour effort for me and both times the Vivoactive either died at the end or was on Low Battery warning even with all sensor off and Bluetooth deactivated. I got a 2nd hand Fenix 3 recently and it has a claimed 18hour life but its a few years old now. I've done a 4 hour ride with it and barely went below 70% even with Bluetooth turned on so I think its pretty decent.
My Garmin has the important fields - Time, Distance, Current Elevation, Cumulative climb and most importantly - BEERS EARNED
My Vivoactive HR would last me about 4-5 days with a few rides logged over that period. Apple Watch series 4 lasts me about 2 days with no activities or 1.5 days if I log a ride. GPS tracking is energy expensive apparently.
Oh yeah, without tracking anything they last ages. The Vivo ran for about 5-6 days I think and the Fenix would last maybe 10. It chews battery doing the activity logging. On other forums for endurance nerds there's threads about prolonging the battery life by changing sample times, disabling GLONASS, turning off unused sensors and Bluetooth and even custom watch screens that don't refresh data as often. That's for the 24hour weirdos mainly and events like that.
Yo! 24 hour races are pretty rad.
That is all I have to add. What were you guys even talking about anyway?
Team One Shorts FTW
yea, my experience is similar to toshi's. i can still get a good 4 days of battery under heavy usage (while running GPS as well as ant+ and bluetooth sensor connections). if i'm not running activities, i can get a good 9 days out of it.
I got a samsung watch (mostly to spite Jonkranked) and I get about 3 days with some tracking. And watchfaces
@Sandwich, can we change the title of this thread to "E-bikes and other dumb shit thread"?
Ps. Speaking of 24hr races, 4 of my buddies did a 24hr drink fest a while back while "racing" in between. On their way to the event they were debating a team name. They settled on "The Pedal-philes"! Hahaha! I still think that was golden!
Ps. Speaking of 24hr races, 4 of my buddies did a 24hr drink fest a while back while "racing" in between. On their way to the event they were debating a team name. They settled on "The Pedal-philes"! Hahaha! I still think that was golden!
Unless you're on a road bike take those stupid heart rate monitors off.
Just ride your fucking bikes people.
Just ride your fucking bikes people.
I don't run a HR monitor for riding normally, but I chucked on one two years ago for my run at the state DH champs.
Obviously gate nerves fuck me up a bit seeing I started at 102, but to go to 175bpm in the first 200 metres and then on the tap for a full run with a max of 187 (theoretical max should have been like 183). Was interesting to see - that course had a bit of pedalling in two sections but also prolonged techy bashy bashy parts so I wasn't sprinting for awhile but the old ticker seemed to be working overtime probably as a result of adrenaline and fear.
The speed data for my run the year previously shows an instant drop from 28kph to 0kph in the forest section which resulted in an ambulance ride.
specialized milking the dentists hard:
https://electrek.co/2019/07/16/specialized-turbo-creo-sl-electric-road-bike/
https://electrek.co/2019/07/16/specialized-turbo-creo-sl-electric-road-bike/
If they made a gravel version of this I would rent it to ride in the Himalayas. For no more than $120 a day, though.
I bet I see one of its ilk in Jackson.
Can’t wait to see the depreciation on that when new, better technology comes in the following year.
Speaking of batteries- Phil got a new 2019 Specialized Levo and said that it had 800(?) watts I believe. Whereas the "old" Trek that I had to "lug around" on "only" had 460 or 480 watts.
Fancy road ebikes are retarded, you can build a hardtail with slicks for 1/3 of the cost with a normal engine (easy to service...) and a bigger battery. That's the whole point of getting a road ebike, you don't need to worry about weight, so you can get away with murder while the rest of the people spend thousands on carbon parts to save weight.
How do you NOT win with a motor?