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TrainerRoad shows off new iOS app

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Lastly, you may have noticed that the iPhone was mounted to a standard Garmin quarter-turn mount. … In this case, it was a SRAM mount, but it could have just as easily been your regular Garmin mount or any other 3rd party mount like BarFly or K-Edge.

A Weekend Skiing in Les Arcs

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I used the Garmin Fenix3 in ski/snowboard mode. … But we managed to find one old and slow one near the edge of the resort that stayed open.

Week in Review–August 26th, 2012

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(via SportTechNews) 9) An alternative Garmin Edge mount using two Bontrager mounts: Two tweeted photos of a mount for half the cost of some of the 3rd party mounts, that extends forward of your bars. … And while there’s a gazillion Lance stories, I actually thought the Vaughters (head of Garmin Cycling Team) story posted last week was more interesting – specifically the Bicycling Magazine follow-up to the New York Times story.

SHIFT Smart Trainer: First Project To Make A Peloton Bike Zwift Accessory

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First, they could easily leverage the Garmin Edge Remote, since that just follows an ANT+ open standard, and would be trivial to implement, allowing shifts up/down. … The Garmin ANT+ remotes are slightly more ideal because they’re weatherized for riding already, so you don’t have to worry about sweat eventually killing it.

Zwift Hub Smart Trainer In-Depth Review: The Best Bang For Your Buck?

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And it’s roughly the 10-11 minute marker that the Zwift Hub gradually matches the Garmin Rally pedals. … As GPLAMA demonstrates in his video review, there are some gearing edge cases later in a longer workout where overheating can also become a factor, causing roughly similar % differences to the pre-calibration areas.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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Camera was the Garmin VIRB 360. … Oh, and then I installed three bike computers: Stages Dash, Polar M460, and an Edge 520.

First Look at the new $129 Withings Move ECG

www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/01/withings-move-hands.html

Not to mention that unlike Garmin, Fitbit, and Apple, the company even has a smart sleep alarm using vibration alerts on your wrist that are based on the optimal moment in your sleep phase. … If you’ve got the app open, all you need to do is to take your other hand and place two fingers on the edge of the watch.

BSX Announces BSXinsight 2.0: Adds Muscle Oxygenation, KICKR Control, and More

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It also doesn’t help that platforms like Training Peaks or Garmin Connect today lack ways of capturing/recording the data with your existing training data. … You can see an example of that here with the Edge 810, where’s it’s being sent over the cycling cadence channel.

A short trip to Finland….with sunrise at 3:30AM

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I’m doing this because I want to validate that the most recent firmware from two days ago has fixed a few issues I saw, and, because my hotel on Tues did not have Internet (seriously), which put me way behind on the Garmin Edge 1000 post, thus pushing this one. … It’s got a pleasant trail looping around the water's edge, appeared to be just under a mile.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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the ones from Garmin, Suunto, REI, Clever Training, etc…) – it’s the unofficial ones that you spend so much time tracking down. … While a reader meanwhile had found the Edge 530 deal, and then I went looking for other similar deals and found the Edge 830 deals.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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It’s nice that Garmin fixed this back a few months ago (after months of being broken). … I was using the Edge 1000 to control the Tacx NEO via FE-C, simply setting the resistance levels manually.

Eurobike Sports Tech Snippets Part 2: Lazer, Shimano, Revbox, Lightweight, and Elite

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They noted though that they’d really like to work with Garmin (specifically) to add it to their head units, similar to how Shimano did on Di2 and the Edge 1000. … The unit then measures both the temperature at the edge of the rim (internally), as well as the pressure of the tire.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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Normally I might have been a little less sure about when I’d use such a device, but this was a million times better than any fancy Garmin Edge or Wahoo unit would have been. … With the weather getting quite a bit nicer on Sunday we headed out for a ride through the Bois de Vincennes, which is the gigantic park on the eastern edge of Paris.

DIY: How I made a trainer bike computer/iPad/phone stand for $30

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Or perhaps we breakout a Garmin Edge 500/800 and mount it there. … 6) Generic/Garmin watch bike mount – $12

5 Random Things From A Weekend in Bruges

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I had worn on this run the Polar M600, Suunto Spartan Ultra, and the Garmin FR735XT. … As you can see below, there was one portion on the northern edge that wasn’t terribly clear.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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Aside from the 89 variants of ‘If I’ve collapsed, someone pause my Garmin’, there’s virtually nothing out there like these in the running realm. … From the tech side, I was using the Stages Dash (in beta), Edge 820, Suunto Spartan Wrist HR, and Fitbit Alta HR.

An Epic Weekend of Cycling in the Pyrenees

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Ironically I had actually mapped out a route for doing both climbs and transferred it to my Garmin. … I oscillated between being happy and sad that I couldn’t see over the edge as I began my descent.

Huge Fall Sale: 20% off including trainers, power meters, watches and more

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Non-power meter exclusions are GoPro, most non-power meter Garmin stuff, again, also per manufacturer requirement. … UPDATE - THESE ARE NOW LIVE: See this post here! This includes the FR945, Edge 1030, Fenix 5 Plus and many more.

5 (Very) Random Things I Did This Weekend

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This does dual-duty and can control not only your Garmin Edge devices, but also various indoor training apps have started adding in support – such as the CycleOps Virtual Training platform, and I believe the Golden Cheetah folks are working on support there too. … It’s the first year of the show, but has an impressive number of booths, and a few technology players including Polar, Garmin, SRAM/Quarq, O-Synce, and CycleOps/PowerTap.

4iiii’s debuts Viiiiva Bluetooth Smart and ANT+ Consolidator Heart Rate Strap

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B) You could be riding that same bike, but now instead with one of the Wahoo Fitness Bluetooth Smart Speed/Cadence sensors, and the newly announced Stages Cycling StageONE Power Meter (via Bluetooth Smart) – and then funnel that data BACK to an ANT+ head unit, such as a Garmin Edge 500. … Typically, if you look at a normal ANT+ heart rate strap (the one that almost everyone out there has today), it reads your heart rate, and then broadcasts that via ANT+ as a sensor device back to any ANT+ compatible unit, like a Garmin wrist watch or bike computer.

Windy 43MPH Weekend Runs

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I then had a Garmin Edge 800 on the stand I made, which was connected to my Quarq Cinqo power meter. … I also put a GoProHD and the Edge on there as well as backup.

Tacx Genius Trainer In-Depth Review

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For example, you can go onto Garmin Connect and download GPX files for just about any route on earth. … I’ve jury-rigged it onto an Edge 500 mount, which is sitting on a knock-off $5 bike computer mount that a reader sent me from Asia.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 In-Depth Review: Half the price, half the accuracy?

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Samsung has most of the core data fields you’d want, though not quite near as many as their endurance-sports-focused competitors from Garmin/COROS/Suunto/Polar/Wahoo. … Unlike the ‘Classic’ models, it doesn’t have a rotating bezel, but can simulate that via a digital variant where you rub your finger around the outer edge of the screen.

Suunto announces new Spartan variant, also firmware update for all Spartan owners

www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/01/announces-outdoors-firmware.html

Which isn’t to say that Garmin’s ‘throw every model against the wall and hope it sticks’ methodology is much better. … - You add time tick marks to the outer edge of the display

First look at new SRM PC8 head unit with WiFi/GPS/ANT+ & Bluetooth

www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/08/srm-pc8-preview.html

everything from Stages to Garmin Vector), as well as established players (PowerTap/Quarq), if SRM was considering lowering their prices to be more competitive – either with prices at the power meter level or the head unit level. … On the GPS front the unit incorporates both recording of GPS tracklogs, as well as following of GPS/GPX breadcrumb trail style routes (similar to an Edge 500).

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