The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered what to do with all of the coolness that people write, and while I share a lot of it on Twitter/X and Facebook, this is a better forum for sending it on to y’all. Most times these different streams don’t overlap, so be on the lookout at all these places for good stuff!
So with that, let’s get into the action!
DCR Posts In The Past Week:
Here’s all the latest posts on the site:
Monday: Week in Review – Oct 27th, 2024
Tuesday: TrainingPeaks Acquires IndieVelo Indoor Cycling App
Wednesday: COROS Pace Pro In-Depth Review: Now With AMOLED and Maps!
Sunday: Wahoo Teases New Cycling GPS, Also Expands KICKR Bike Features
Sunday: FIT File: A $3000 Garmin and a $350 COROS walk into a bar…
YouTube Videos This Week:
Here’s what hit the tubes over on the You of Tube; definitely don’t forget to subscribe there to get notified of videos the second they hit!
Stuff I Found Interesting Around The Interwebs:
Here’s a not-so-small smattering of all the random things that I stumbled on while doing my civic duty to find the end of the Internet:
1) Garmin removes USB from Edge x40 series: This move was bound to eventually happen, but I had sorta hoped Garmin wouldn’t dork with the x40 series. While there are a handful of positive reasons for MTP, for most people (or at least most techies), it’s a pain in the butt. It removes simple USB mass storage option, and makes it messier to access – especially for Mac people (which, is definitely Apple’s fault in this case). Shane walks through all the changes:
2) Canyon and REI team up to provide service support: Interesting tie-up, that makes a ton of sense. At present, Canyon isn’t selling any bikes through REI, but that’d also be super logical for popular models, especially as a way for the company to increase its footprint in the US:
3) Hammerhead Adds Karoo 3 Battery Saving Mode: This can extend the battery life up to 35+ hours, but there are some solid catches here. Shane also walked through some of this situation as well. I’ll be digging into this separately and rolling it into my existing review in the coming weeks. Just didn’t have the time to dig into it this week, given all the other wearable and bike computer stuff in process.
4) Peloton holds Hackathon, Interesting Outputs Result: As always with Hackathons, this doesn’t mean any of these things will become actual consumer products, but rather, just ideas that were proofed out. Still, it’s super cool they do this.
5) A Day As A Food Delivery Cyclist: There have been countless iterations of this over the years, but this is one of the better ones, focused a bit more on the safety and related realities of being a food delivery cyclist, from the perspective of someone in the cycling industry.
6) On Tit-for-Tat Government Sanctions in the Drone World: As I noted last week, the push to remove DJI from the US marketplace via various import bans is only going to get uglier. And this week, we see China reacting by zapping US drone maker Skydio’s battery manufacturer. Of course, the irony here being that as awesome as Skydio drones are, the company is by far the biggest driver of political influence against DJI in the US.
7) Wahoo KICKR V6/Move/CORE Firmware Removes Virtual Shifting Power Bug: This is a notable bug that popped up, which means you probably want to ensure your KICKR V6/Move/CORE has been updated. Or at least, your competitors probably hope you do.
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Hi Ray,
any idea/infos, why Garmin discontinued the Garmin Tempe sensor?
That would be a disappointment. I’m not aware of alternatives and the tempe sensor was (at the time) one reason to switch from Suunto to Garmin.
Interesting, didn’t know it was discontinued.
I’d guess that after a decade or so, virtually nobody bought one anymore. Back when it first came out, temp sensors weren’t common in their watches (since many didn’t have baro altimeters). Of course, it was more than watches, also bike computers and handhelds. And even today, with watches it’s still not ideal to use wrist temp.
But I suspect ultimately, I’d struggle to see many people buying these. :(
Since I’m not the athletic type of “sports-person” (more the recreational type) I like to look at the temperature graph of cross-country skiing afterwards. And occasionally look at (or later brag about) the outside temp when camping in winter ;-)
So far as I know, the original reason for the Tempe is that wrist based temperature on the original Fenix just wasn’t accurate, since it’s wrapped around a 98.6 F arm. I don’t see that anything has changed in that regard. I still have my original Tempe bought with my original Fenix, and now about 5 other Tempes, since I bought more both for use with Garmin watches and when I got a 1040, since temperature from a little greenhouse on the handlebars is also not going to be accurate when the sun is out. I’m sad to see it go, and hope someone will come out with a replacement of some sort.
I’m sad to see it go, and hope someone will come out with a replacement of some sort.
Same here, and I hope this doesn’t mean they’ll pull Tempe support from the watches any time soon. Just ordered a new one as a backup for the unit that’s done me great service for the last ten years.
With the move to MTP, will we still be able to install free maps?
Yup, no problems. You can still copy/paste without issue.
That said, there’s sorta little reason to on the x40 series, since you can download free maps from Garmin directly, which are of far better functionality (have heatmap data built-in), than what you’d get from OSM directly.
I got bit by MTP today. I installed the beta Saturday night after seeing Shane’s video. Yesterday went normally, syncing via WiFi before I even got inside, and I plugged the 1040 into my Mac mini just to see that Express saw it via MTP. Today was one of those rare non-sync days where the activity just didn’t sync. I tried with the iPhone, tried with Express, nothing. So I had to go through the extra steps. Exit Express on the Mini, including the background app. Start up Android File Transfer, drag the file off the 1040 onto the Desktop and manually upload to web Connect. Annoying.
Hi Ray,
Any chance Garmin will release a new scale this year?