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I think you meant “hay bale” when describing the endo at the Redhook Crit.
one might say he bailed off the course :)
There is a lot wrong with “The Trocaadero Fixie” but their title, it’s not a fixed gear bike, probably only seconds the design of the bike.
Garmin also maintains an RSS feed for software updates at link to feeds.feedburner.com
interesting – what is the source RSS feed? at a glance its def not a 100% complete list (F3HR is there, but F3 is not)
interesting yet again – i found the site – link to www8.garmin.com
amazing how different their feed (official) is than link to gpsinformation.net (unofficial)
Yes, that was the site.
Trocaadero Fixie – yet another solution with no problem or need in sight.
Hmmm. I don’t totally agree about “that’s what you get for riding brakeless”. In a pack like that I think the crash would have been similar even with brakes. After the first few riders you can’t see what’s happening in a peloton.
People who ride brakeless bikes on the street? Yeah, that’s stupid.
“People who ride brakeless bikes on the street? Yeah, that’s stupid.”
You mean, like the street in the video? ;)
You mean, like the closed course in the video? um. I don’t consider that the street.
The challenge with that course is that there’s nowhere to go other than into the pile, nor anyway to stop. So some with brakes might have been able to stop, thus lessening the pile-up and the plot of space it was taking up blocking the road
Don’t get me wrong, I think the whole thing is fun to watch, but it’s also nuts.
yeah, certainly worse without brakes, but it would have still been a pileup.
that was a super-crazy one, even with all the recent moto-vs-bike crashes/fatalities.
bikesnobnyc: “And it’s not like the riders who get involved in pile-ups know there’s been a crash and have time to brake. The only thing they see is the Lycra-clad ass in front of them.”
link to bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com
Posting here to see if anyone is having the same issue. Updated the Edge 1000 to 8.10 from 8.00. Setup: Edge 1000 + Varia Radar + Varia Vision + Stages Power + Scosche HRM. The Varias are on the latest firmware as well.
I went from having sporadic “Radar Disconnected” messages to having TONS of them, as well as the occasional “virtual street” screen like it was directly talking to the Varia Radar without the Edge 1000, and even “Edge 1000 disconnected messages” and one “Acknowledge to connect” message. Bah!
For the first time my .FIT file is junk; see attached. TONS of dropouts. Even more emphatic Bah!
I called Garmin support… nice person on the phone, whose advice was to un-pair everything from the Edge, deleted all the shared state, and then try pairing things one at time. Sounds painful, but I’ll do it. But if anyone has figured out the root cause, I’d appreciate knowing about it.
Not sure why you see lawsuits as a sign of desperation. If a patent owner doesn’t defend and enforce their patents, that can be grounds for losing them. So a company would be nuts not to enforce against one alleged infringer if it may give ride to the patent being invalidated and unenforceable against everyone.
Innovate or die. In this case, Jawbone simply hasn’t innovated. And when they did innovate (a few years ago), they fumbled the play so badly that it drove everyone away from the product. Many times in tech when a company like Jawbone is suing a market leader, it’s rarely because they have a lesser product.
We don’t see other major brands suing each other in this activity tracker space (heck, not even lawsuit-happy ICON fitness).
I agree with “innovate or die” but when you have innovated you have to protect your intellectual property. I’m coming at this as a lawyer in a different product space but the basic principle still applies.
Well of course the Lawyer thinks it’s a good idea to sue, you guys are the only winners. Litigate or die?
Actually I am an M&A lawyer not a litigator. If my work ends up in litigation I’ve failed to do my job properly. So well done on the generalization there buddy.