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Anxiously awaiting for the vivoactive 3 review but if, as someone mean on the first look, there is no manual laps, I have to question garmin’s sanity (or whether they care about the running market with this product)
I was at Best Buy over the weekend and they had 3. If the price was $250 I would have probably pulled the trigger but $299 gave me enough pause. Im looking at the suunto spartan trainer thing.
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It’s coming in a firmware update shortly. It’ll be two taps on the screen to set a lap.
That would be a very bad choice and I would have preferred a long press vs short press of the button. Double tapping on a screen while you are running may be problematic, since the watch and finger will always be moving a bit while running and a double tap may not work or result in a swipe movement instead of a tap. Also, when you are running in the rain and the screen and finger will be wet, this may be problematic. But… let’s wait and see how it will work out.
Looks like this post is still hidden on the front page.
Thanks for the heads up, looking into it!
Important news. I was in the first batch of Zwatt Zimanox backers, and my power meter was shipped last week, and arrives today. Better late than never I say!
Any news on the Shimano power meter yet? Did they make their deadline?
Nothing at present. My understanding from talking to a few people in the industry is that they did ship a handful of units within Japan last month to bike shops. It’s unclear what accuracy/etc looks like on those at this time. I’m not aware of any media getting any final units at this point.
Thanks for the update.
I wonder if that quark stabilizer gizmo could be misappropriated for fixing the problem that headlights with a good, wide anti-glare cutoff have when you lean into corners, that they throw the light way too short on the side where you want to see into the curve, while blinding anyone who is on the other side. Ideally, if you point the axis slightly up you would even get the beam to shine into the curve! (More than what the steering already provides, which is too little since the wheel tracks tangentially). Two questions remain, can it run of external power and does it lose calibration (“reuniting of up”) in continuous operation.
I guess it’s that time of the year again, the annual “improve riding in the dark” excitement that always comes to a predictable end when eventually giving in to indoor.
Huh, interesting idea. It appears to be just a standard GoPro mount, which some lights are shifting towards. Although, the mount aspects might be tricky.
Anything new coming from Wahoo?
Tried to find your Ant+ symposium talk on youtube. Is it not up yet? I thought live streams where automatically added for later viewing on youtube.
I manually add them. But in this case the quality was soooooooo bad that I didn’t want to add them and want to instead wait for the finished video from the ANT+ crew who were also recording it.
Ray,
Are you going to publish a video of your 2017 Ant+ Symposium keynote like you’ve done in the past? If so, any ETA?
Yup!
I’m just waiting for the video files.
Pioneer left leg for Ultegra 6800 is on sale for $399
link to pioneerelectronics.com
while clever training as the left Duraace 9000 for $404
link to clevertraining.com
Guessing the deal from pioneer is US specific as its not mentioned on their global site:
link to pioneer-cyclesports.com
(I hate when companies have global and country specific sites and not make it clear the type of data that is on each.)