My bike build is finally complete as I recently got the E-tube bluetooth/ANT+ bits fitted to add some much ‘needed’ connectivity to my cycling world. I also finally got around to having a bike fit after n+1 years. Where ‘n’ was ‘too long’. I’ve since had hours of fun with the Ultegra shifters and Di2.…
I’ve mentioned the AURA Band a few times in passing so here is a little bit more information to whet your appetite. It’s currently a Kickstarter project (£13k raised vs £71k target as of 18/2/18) and has a nice focus on providing some key insights to certain types of people interested in a slightly deeper…
Here are most of the gadgets I’ve been using for me over the last month or so. I’m not sure they are my ‘favourite’ ones per se but I’m using them ‘properly’ for meaningful training stuff rather than just trying to break them or seeing if the GPS is accurate or not. There is nothing…
The new STRYD Live is firmware upgradeable to the power version of STRYD. I guess there’s not too much more you can say than that. I would presume that the cost for the firmware upgrade would be more than the current $100 difference between STRYD and STRYD Live. I would guess in the short term…
The release of a power-free STRYD, called STRYD Live (effectively STRYD Light) intentionally coincided with the announcement from Zwift that their running platform is open for free access throughout 2018. OPINION: STRYD Live. The Zwift Run announcement leads nicely into the $100 STRYD Live footpod. DCR says the price should be c$50 (which is coincidentally…
I guess it could have been worse. Below is probably the final email from BSX. It is GOOD that they have kept the servers going for a year and great that the code is released to the public to work on. Yes ‘end of life’ is a fact of life for products and all of…
For those of you looking to improve the stability of the watts in your Garmin Running Power numbers then the new STRYD Light (STRYD Live) could be a sensible way forwards for a half the cost of the full STRYD solution. This particular approach might be useful if you have already built up some history…
NEW STRYD RUNNING POD
TomTom’s Q4.2017 revenues were down 40% on the same quarter from the previous year. Indeed the full year showed 2017 down 27% on 2016 Q4 sales were still Eu91m though. TomTom Down 29% TomTom – Reports big 2015 sales growth for GPS watches Source: TomTom
IronCloud T1 : Garmin Fenix 5 Wannabee
The great thing about the Olympic Triathlon for the English-speaking countries is that we seem to win medals. As an Olympic event, the chance of a medal and the opportunity of getting to watch it for free are high. Well, at least that’s true if you are in the country at the time. Which I…
V1.80 – 05 February 2018 (>> new version on 01April 2018 <<) This is updated monthly This is an old version I’m afraid this February update offers little new after the fallout from CES2018 – which wasn’t that amazing either. Don’t get me wrong. 2018 is still going to be interesting. In terms of…
As part of berating some of the media yesterday around the STRAVA heatmap military fake-furore, I had to upgrade my account to PREMIUM to see the heat maps. For some reason I had let it expire. Tut tut. So today I then had to go and activate my free insurance perk that comes with STRAVA.…
OK. I’m just about to fall in the trap of calling lots of other people ‘idiots; and then go and do precisely the same thing myself. I’ll add my poor attempt a defence against idiocy later. The story goes that the likes of STRAVA, Suunto, Fitbit and others, who have HEATMAPs of user activity as…
Foam – wonder material or glorified polystyrene?
I have to admit that last week’s firmware update for the Forerunner 935 somewhat slipped me by. Sure it installed but I imagined that it was just some bug fix for a few peripheral features. But it wasn’t. OK fixes were in there too but we also got some interesting featurettes Firstly the rather enigmatic…
I had an interesting chat recently with Valencell. There are no revelations as such but it was good to hear some of the directions the company and the wider market are heading down. In no particular order here are some of the things we discussed: Valencell estimated that optical HR sensors for sport are probably…
I finally managed a decent ride with the new bike yesterday. The main purpose was just to see how well, or not, it rode; as well as sneak in a few easy sprints. However with a couple of mates in tow it turned into an hour of ‘off-plan’ fun and we came back significantly more…
I was looking at the new beta firmware for the Fenix 5 and noticed two very highly viewed threads on the garmin.com forum. Those are some serious levels of interest: >50,000 views of ANT+ connectivity issues and >107,000 people further interested in GPS accuracy. Edit: Doesn’t quite match the F3HR altimetry (yet) I would hope…
What features do YOU want on the Forerunner 935 (existing) and Forerunner 945 (future product)
