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FYI the Quatix is actually the Quatix 3. Quatix was original Fenix hardware, weirdly there was no Quatix 2 though. This was the second time you’ve missed the 3 on the update section so I figured it might not actually be a typo after all :)
Good catch – fixed!
Running out of space in that cave – time for a yard sale!
Point 9 in the “STUFF THAT I FOUND INTERESTING AROUND THE INTERWEBS” section…..
I thought I was the only one! Haven’t bought a Nike product since the child labour scandal in the…. late 90’s??
2) GoPro buys video app makers for combined for $105 Million:
You have two “for”s in that line.
It’s about redundancy. This way, if something happens to one of the for’s, there’s still another left.
HAHAHA!!
How about this for your Interwebs section:
link to twitter.com
Dimension Data, company not team, moving into sports tech after seeing cycling link to computerdealernews.com … “It was a sport devoid of technology”
So apparently there was no technology in cycling so far, and we all simply didn’t notice :-) Did you know that our little pushbikes don’t have any sensors?
I don’t know what’s funnier. The article as written, or the quotes.
For example:
What is the difference between the average highest speed and average lowest speed?
How many ways can you spell Tour de France?
It was never possible to see the speed of a rider before? Amazing!
Among others…
and the sloppy spelling of the football team…
“the example of Leister City, a small club compared to the giants of the Premier League”
I presume they actually mean “Leicester City”?….
This article is gold!
Awesome news about the podcast… Good to hear Ben will at least be keeping yours going. :)
Yup, we recorded a couple hours ago. Perhaps even a certain type of cookie was noted…
The bungee thing looks neat, just need to add a drone…
For flatter races, makes total sense to go to a single chainring. I’d never get another mountain bike with a front derailleur after using SRAM XX1. But for road and triathlon riding, the gaps between gears makes more difference, especially for a hilly course. Lots of benefits of a single chainring but hadn’t thought about more aero as well.
A pro-triathlete that I know converted his triathlon bike last year into a single front ring, and loved it. He worked with the Bike mechanic and they did some calculations and found out that with only 1 front ring he could produce almost exactly the same range of power, because of it allowing better use of the rear cassette. He used it on a number of hilly courses, and had no issues. I guess there was a very minor change in how easy a gear he could have, but nothing that hindered performance, in fact overall he said his performance was much better.
Hi Ray,
Regarding the firmware update, on Fenix 3, Garmin just added the Elevation Plot function – probably to “fight” the Suunto Vertical. I’ve been testing it and it seems quite interesting, it plots and tracks the ascent that you have done when on navigation mode. Oriented for trail running but kind of nice to have.
No mention at all about Rotor 2INpower yet? Must say I don’t quite understand Rotor’s development priorities here. As they already had a the dual-sided Power with strain-gauges in the crank arms I thought the INpower was primarily targeted at people who already had their regular cranks as a lower-cost solution, and from what I understand the 2INpower cannot be retro-fitted to old cranksets? Or was the Power so unreliable that they decided it’s be worthwhile to shift all resources to the INpower platform?
And Epix again left without fixes :/
That picture of you and the waterspout is crazy! I don’t think I have seen it before. Where was that taken?
In Australia. Full post on it here: link to dcrainmaker.com
Good post Ray !
I had read your Fitbit Blaze In-Depth Review, this is really full information review that I’ve read.
Thank for that !
The Brownlees were using SRAM Force 1 at the London WTS last year – with Alistair winning:
link to cyclingweekly.co.uk
New Powertap firmware:
link to powertap.com
For next week’s list:
link to cyclist.co.uk
I found it pretty interesting.
Nice catch – added in for this weekend (as well as Eli’s PT updates).