Any of you Tossers ride a pushbike?

Trippy said:
After buying a mountain bike I decided it was a bit of overkill for what I did, so I sold both it and my hybrid and bought a new better hybrid that will do all I want of a bike. It's a Specialized Crosstrail Expert, much nicer on the road than the old hybrid and more than capable on the sort of trails I want to do. Hydraulic discs, remote lock out on the forks and slightly larger and lighter than the old one. Got the trip computer thing and changed the pedals for some decent ones. Going to get a rear carrier for it so I can do a couple of days away now and then. Luckily able to buy on work cycle scheme so saved 30%.
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Is that a tiny frame, or those wheels massive? :D
 
Out again today, bike making a few new noises last few rides and finally figured it out, crack in top tube, game over... Not happy as been doing loads this year emailed Cannondale to see if they still do the life time guarantee
 
richie said:
Out again today, bike making a few new noises last few rides and finally figured it out, crack in top tube, game over... Not happy as been doing loads this year emailed Cannondale to see if they still do the life time guarantee
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Aloominum or Carbon fibre?
 
peepingtom said:
now even I could get motivated to get on my bike there, very nice indeed.

holiday or do you live there ?

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Greg Masters said:
My guess is that the old tosser was there on a business trip in his company vehicle.
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The Beardy Twat is correct.
I was on my monthly visit to San Diego and took the road bike out again (we have them free at most destinations, along with a load of other sports equipment,for the sum of £2 per month).

San Diego does happen to be my no1 place at the mo.
 
I want to get a GPS to use on the road bike,mainly for mapping,as you would on a GS,as I don't need the data and shite that they churn out,as I have an old Garmin watch that does that.I don't want to spend a fortune and even stuff like the Garmin Edge 810 seems to have very mixed reviews and apparently struggles to follow an onroad route.
But as I do longer rides from home I'd like to be able to get back more easily and have the option to take back roads etc rather than just follow signs on A roads.

What do you tossers do ?
 
Arsey said:
I want to get a GPS to use on the road bike,mainly for mapping,as you would on a GS,as I don't need the data and shite that they churn out,as I have an old Garmin watch that does that.I don't want to spend a fortune and even stuff like the Garmin Edge 810 seems to have very mixed reviews and apparently struggles to follow an onroad route.
But as I do longer rides from home I'd like to be able to get back more easily and have the option to take back roads etc rather than just follow signs on A roads.

What do you tossers do ?
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Garmin Oregon - my old trail riding unit. OS maps, City Navigator, routing, and it does HRM and cadence. About £100 from eBay.
 
Arsey said:
I want to get a GPS to use on the road bike,mainly for mapping,as you would on a GS,as I don't need the data and shite that they churn out,as I have an old Garmin watch that does that.I don't want to spend a fortune and even stuff like the Garmin Edge 810 seems to have very mixed reviews and apparently struggles to follow an onroad route.
But as I do longer rides from home I'd like to be able to get back more easily and have the option to take back roads etc rather than just follow signs on A roads.

What do you tossers do ?
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I use an Edge 810 as I like all the data and shite, but you could find the Edge Touring is more your thing? Basically a satnav for the push bike and seems decent...

www.wiggle.co.uk/garmin-edge-tourin...m_medium=base&utm_campaign=uk&kpid=5360582185
 
Arsey said:
I want to get a GPS to use on the road bike,mainly for mapping,as you would on a GS,as I don't need the data and shite that they churn out,as I have an old Garmin watch that does that.I don't want to spend a fortune and even stuff like the Garmin Edge 810 seems to have very mixed reviews and apparently struggles to follow an onroad route.
But as I do longer rides from home I'd like to be able to get back more easily and have the option to take back roads etc rather than just follow signs on A roads.

What do you tossers do ?
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Satmap with the bike mount!

Full GB OS mapping and great in the mountains too.
 
Monty said:
I use an Edge 810 as I like all the data and shite, but you could find the Edge Touring is more your thing? Basically a satnav for the push bike and seems decent...

www.wiggle.co.uk/garmin-edge-tourin...m_medium=base&utm_campaign=uk&kpid=5360582185
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Ta for that.Does the 810 stay on the road or try and route you to cycle paths etc ? I was looking at them on Amazon and they seem to get very mixed reviews,as does the Edge Touring.

This is a typical review of the Edge Touring on Wiggle :

As others have said it doesn't really do what it says on the tin.
I bought this because it includes mapping (GB & Europe) and so that I could use it to route me out and back on a ride. However, you really need to pre-plan your route online using Connect (or RWGPS for example), because setting up a route on the unit itself isn't particularly easy and gives some laughable routing results. Even pre-planning, the unit can sometimes throw up issues, but is tolerable.
So the issues...
* Turn-by-turn navigation - works most of the time, then will stop working... then if you're lucky may start again. During the time it's not working you need to have the map displaying to follow the line. According to Garmin, this is issues with the maps rather than the unit. Some turns are illustrated incorrectly or indicate the wrong exit on an island.
* Creating a route on the unit - regardless of setting (cycling, touring, mtb - and avoiding unpaved roads, trails) it tries to send you down cycle paths, canal tow paths, etc. Great if you're on a hybrid bike, but not good for road bikes. It absolutely does whatever it can to avoid you going on main road, which is great in some circumstances but not in others. It will create me a 4 mile route to get to a point 1 mile away, simply to avoid the main road in between (which is perfectly safe to cycle on and again regardless of settings). Again this is supposedly down to the mapping according to Garmin.
* Round Trip Routing - A rubbish feature, it refuses to take me onto rural roads by me because there is a main road to cross, so instead suggests routes through housing estates. Would have been nice to use this feature on holiday

Bugger !!!
 
Arsey said:
Ta for that.Does the 810 stay on the road or try and route you to cycle paths etc ? I was looking at them on Amazon and they seem to get very mixed reviews.That Edge Touring may be better.But I have a Mac and not sure how easy it is to get routes on-bloody nightmare with my 660 for the KTM as I had bloody Basecamp !!
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The 810 has been pretty good, to be honest. I use the openstreetmap routable cycle maps as they are free and have lots of cycle paths included, but I did end up taking the road bike through a muddy woodland trail when I had the preferences set wrongly!

If mapping and navigation were more important than stats I would definitely go for the Touring as the map screen looks clearer, or there is the more recent Edge 1000 if you have plenty of money to throw at it.

If you can tolerate Basecamp you can send routes to all of them the same way as with the Zumo, but you can also use Garmin Connect to create courses (routes) and send them to your device instead and upload your journeys afterward to bore everyone.

Matt
 
Used an Edge 800 for a lot of time on the bike and a lot of miles both in the UK and Europe. Never had a problem with either following a pre-planned route on Connect, or downloading a route before doing a sportive, or occasionally just riding wherever I felt like it and if I got lost using the Edge to navigate me home.

IMHO a brilliant bit if kit.
 
I've got a Nuvi 550 still so I might just get a RAM mount such as the one below for now and try use that for the time being :

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Thanks for the advice chappies
 
Still on my Garmin 705. I plot the routes using Memory Map software and upload the GPS track to the Garmin unit. I then follow the "saved" ride by indicating the route on the base map rather than navigating.
 
richie said:
Out again today, bike making a few new noises last few rides and finally figured it out, crack in top tube, game over... Not happy as been doing loads this year emailed Cannondale to see if they still do the life time guarantee
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Asked me to drop it into my nearest Cannondale dealer, about 100 miles away but I will. Not definitely going to change it for me but maybe.
 
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