Comments for DC Rainmaker

Comment on First look at the new Polar RC3 GPS–the first integrated GPS watch from Polar by Vito

Vito — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:42:36 +0000

Hi Rainmaker,
I find nothing in the manual. I can import a file gpx in rc3? thanks in advance.

Comment on Incredible deals: Garmin FR910XT for $299, FR310XT for $169, Edge 800 for $229, Ambit for $349 by Tisztul_A_Visztula

Tisztul_A_Visztula — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:10:50 +0000

Just a small note about Edge generations:

1. Edge705 has no “stairs” in logged elevation data
2. Edge800 does have them
3. Edge810 has no stairs again

I just checked it exporting other people’s rides from Garmin Connect. The mistery for me why Garmin did not modify this approach for 800 (and 500). A month ago they launched a new firmware for 500, but it does not deal with this at all.

Sidenote 910XT has the same bloody stairs.

Manual elevation cal of Edge (if I understood well)

1. Edge705: waypoint in the neighbourhood at the very start with elevation data

2. Edge800/810: manual typing of the known elevation, which can calibrate the unit at any time during recording.

As far as it concerned 910XT is not like 800, but like 705.

From this elevation freak perspective only 810 is an approved unit for me. Now I have no hope that the stairs and the manual elev cal approach of 910XT will be transformed to similar to 910XT.

Comment on Incredible deals: Garmin FR910XT for $299, FR310XT for $169, Edge 800 for $229, Ambit for $349 by oldSAP

oldSAP — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:51:47 +0000

thanks for this Ray. but i’m experiencing an error when i purchase using my credit card with billing address here in the Philippines and the shipping address is either Canada or United States. i’ve been using the same credit card with clevertraining before with no problems at all. they said there might be an error in my billing address but i have copied my exact billing address already but to no avail. hope you could talk to their people about this. thank you again.

Comment on A look at Wahoo KICKR support on Windows via ANT, and what the rest of the industry is doing by Larry

Larry — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:16:32 +0000

Would love to see the Univet software running on KICKR. Does Cycleops have some exclusive on the Univet release in North America? If so, it would be cool to see Cycleops view themselves as a software distributor even if the trainer was from another company.

Given their track record, can’t imagine Tacx supporting non-Tacx trainers and having it actually work. It’s been dicey for them even when they control the entire stack from hardware, to comm interface to application. I guess anything is possible; someday pigs may even fly, but it would be cool to see their virtual training stuff running elsewhere. I’d guess it’s more probable that other vendor’s software would run on Tacx than the other way around.

Comment on A look at Wahoo KICKR support on Windows via ANT, and what the rest of the industry is doing by Larry

Larry — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:54:18 +0000

Ditto here… for all the iDevice users I see everywhere, I personally know of only one person I feel comfortable asking to loan their iDevice new enough to have BT4. This morning I found out that person’s iPad suffered screen damage and is probably spending more on a repair than buying a brand new Android tablet.

Wanting to try my KICKR with some of the apps you highlighted, but will have to wait till that person’s tablet is repaired.

Thank you for pushing Wahoo on this. What did I read earlier this week… Android made up something like 75% of smartphone purchases worldwide in the first 3 months of 2013, and that was prior to the release of recent flagship models. It’s not like we’re asking them to support a 1977 vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 with a cassette tape drive. Hopefully once we’re past this current update, future ones will be possible via the more widely supported and established ANT+ protocol. Sorry, but this is becoming very frustrating.

Comment on O-Synce Navi2Coach GPS Cycling Computer In-Depth Review by stephen

stephen — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:46:08 +0000

Naisan,
at present you can only view your ‘last lap’ on the N2C. Even after ending your training session, there is now way to review all your lap data on the device, even though the data is stored inside. You have to download the session to your training program or O-synce’s free Training Lab program for a complete analysis.

A handy thing to do is create a page with all your last lap data needed, so it is immediately available after hitting the lap button.