Getting old sucks, might as well have a nice bike
Hello, this is Andrew with Missing Remote, er…, Mamilian. Change is hard, but I think it’s time to setup a separate space for bike stuff, and the home theater/networking/etc stuff. Since I don’t want to recreate a bunch of videos, I’m going to cross post them (I know, so lazy…). Hopefully Google doesn’t hate me because of it.…
About five years ago, someone created a feature request on the Fitbit forums requesting that they allow the device to act like a BTLE heart rate (HR) monitor. Simple enough, Fitbit devices have BTLE (that’s how they sync with your phone), and they track heart rate (at least most of them). Adding this feature, which many other HR tracking watches can do, should have been pretty easy. Obviously not a massive priority,…
The battery life on my Garmin Varia RTL 510 has never been great. Recently it’s gotten much worse, so I decided it was worth doing a warranty exchange with Garmin to find out it the problem was my unit or something broader.…
I recently discovered two tools that make it much easier to setup hydraulic disc brakes on my bike.…
I have a Canyon Aeroad, or maybe had… Perhaps this is an esoteric question better left unaddressed. After all, if you destroy your bike, is it still a bike? Or just a collection of bike parts, using a strange carbon fiber hanging/storage mechanism? Not that it really matters, because the point of this post is to highlight the experience I had with Canyon USA’s customer service, it got complicated… First off, have…
Less than a month in, got a puncture. Sealant worked in the field, isn’t providing a long term fix. Annoying that I’ll probably have to write off such a new tire, for what isn’t that large of a hole, but it’s hard to argue with the massive convenience of tubeless even though it’s an all-the-eggs-in-one-basket solution.…
I’ll never be the fastest, or the strongest, so where I can find advantage I’m generally more than happy to run with it. I thought Vitamin C was an advantage; after all, if you get sick less often, you can train more. And for the most part this strategy worked for as long as I pursued it, but it was recently brought to my attention that it had a major flaw (thanks…
I ran across a couple posts from “joshua0” last night when my attempt to get Wahoo to provide useful assistance extracting the “Pedal Monitor” metrics from the FIT file it exports ended in “the data is probably there, but you’ll have to ask Pioneer how to parse it” (paraphrased from the six emails it took to get that out). And it surprised me on two counts. First that the ELEMNT is running…
As a confessed weight weenie, I generally try to find the weight of components before impulsively buying it. There are a couple reasons for this: first it helps slow down the process (i.e. fewer things that I need to explain to my partner later), and second if I’m going to add weight to the bike I want it to be a conscious, measured decision. So it was quite frustrating that I wasn’t…