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News August 14, 2020

Price isn’t about greed, so much as demand.

I really enjoyed this video breaking down some of the new bike offerings from the major brands. It was super interesting to hear Peak Torque’s thoughts on the bikes, right up to the point where he started waxing about the beauty of rim brake bikes, and banging on about how top-end bikes are too expensive. The first thing is mostly rubbish; although, if you like your rim brake bike, that’s totally cool.…

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News August 14, 2020

Huh? I thought that feature was perfect already….

I’ve complained about Garmin’s FTP calculator before; both here, and on the Garmin forums. Of course, no one from Garmin had anything to say about it, but the community was pretty clearly in one of three camps: “[blindly] accept the [flawed] truth it gives you”, “if you don’t like it, turn it off”, “nothing’s wrong, move along”. Interestingly, it does appear that there was something to the complaint though, as is acknowledged…

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Blog August 14, 2020

Canyon Crash Replacement: is it worth it?

I’ve written before about my own experience as a 2nd-hand owner of a Canyon bike after breaking my frame, but I thought it would be interesting to document another story. This time, the story of someone who is actually covered by Canyon’s crash warranty. This is the story of a Local Apex Predator and his Canyon Ultimate CF SLX. Here goes. The damage in the photos below was caused when the fully…

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Blog Featured August 13, 2020

If there was ever any doubt, AERO IS KING!

If you haven’t already read the Shaving Time post, go do that. Will save me the trouble of repeating myself too much. For those that couldn’t be bothered, the TLDR; is that there’s a local ITT, I’ve been playing with different kit, setups, etc. The latest test was a multi-combo; two big changes: a much lower body position + aero wheels, and two minor: aero socks (rubbish) + 1200 lumen headlamp (it…

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Blog Featured August 10, 2020

Specialized S-Works Power Cranks Broken

It’s never great when something breaks, but when that thing is an expensive power meter, it really sucks… In this case, it’s the right side power meter – which while everything looks good in the Specialized Power Cranks app, just isn’t reporting any power. My “solution” so far has to been to remove the battery from the right crank, and just run one-sided, so at least the left-side doubles the power and…

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News August 5, 2020

The options aren’t supposed to make sense?

On first glance, I was very firmly in the WTH is Zwift thinking camp. The plans don’t make sense, but apparently, that’s the point? I kind of get it based on DCR’s explanation, but it’s still a very strange way to do market research. At least to my untrained eyes. On every subsequent page with options, they repeat the same “these are made up scenarios” wording. But, if there’s anything we as…

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Blog July 31, 2020

Maybe wait a bit for the marketing emails, Garmin.

It could just be me, but I find it super annoying that whatever system Garmin uses to send out marketing emails, has come back up before they have Garmin Connect fully working again. This is the second email I’ve received trying convince me that I really ought to buy a Venu since they experienced a total system failure last week. As someone who works in IT, I totally get that different teams…

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