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Dcrainmaker is currently recommending the 520 as the best all round GPS device on the market, fwiw.
I've read about this on many of Specialized's range (as I've read up a lot on the Roubaix/Diverge). I think it's just a pair of spacers which are angled the one side to give slight angle when rotated. It's an amazing idea and I'm quite surprised no other brands do something so simple?!Specialized Comp stems have a shim that can adjust the angle at the steerer, keeping the stem body rock solid.
Facebook buy/sell groups, look for local pickup of old wheels and you might even find one for free. Just looking at mine for 'Herefordshire' and I can see a guy selling a pair of 'Shimano' wheels for £20. No idea what model but that's a fairly normal thing I see on several of them. Worth asking around local CC pages too.Does anyone have any suggestions for the cheapest rear wheel with Shimano 11 speed support? A friend of mine wants one for his turbo. I'm looking around but haven't found anything cheaper than ~£55 so far.
KMC come with QL's? The last one I had didn't...I should have sprung for a KMC chain. I know what'll be going on when this one wears out.
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So anyway, the next job is cables and then - joy - indexing and finally bar tape.
I wonder what your options are if you tried to pursue them for a refund of the frame cost instead and then go elsewhere? It's all the 'dangers' of using one of the online etailers - they save costs by having very few usually inexperienced staff. PainfulWas fearing something like this! Really can't be bothered to have to strip everything down and then wait two months for someone to actually do anything :|
Need some help please!
After a new GPS, I was pretty much decided on the 520 due to it being able to support maps but now I've read that it doesn't have much memory so you can't really store many (can't find a definitive answer on how much is 'many'). But now I've seen the Wahoo Elemnt and I'm torn between the two!
Anyone have any experience with either/both?
How? That's great. Which health insurance?I've been looking at Garmin's as can get one for 50% off with my new work health insurance and then also they'll pay £100 towards it, so I'm getting a 520 for £20, so cant complain!
Yeah what health insurance? I wonder if mine has anything like that, probably doesn't or they'd have mentioned it.
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I wonder what your options are if you tried to pursue them for a refund of the frame cost instead and then go elsewhere? It's all the 'dangers' of using one of the online etailers - they save costs by having very few usually inexperienced staff. Painful
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Managed to get out for a ride last night thinking it would still be kinda warm despite the grey clouds. How wrong was I - insane headwinds and my toes wanted to drop off after 5 mins. Nonetheless I was quite happy with the stats considering I didn't try to push it too much... 18.8mph for 45.2 miles with a nice 60 minute split of 19.47mph.
I'm with Bupa. In fact only recently signed up for it as I figured if I had another bike accident and happened to require physio etc it's going to be a lot easier through them than NHS.
I've been looking at Garmin's as can get one for 50% off with my new work health insurance and then also they'll pay £100 towards it, so I'm getting a 520 for £20, so cant complain!
With regards to mapping dcrainmaker has it covered: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/download-garmin-705800810.html#part-ii-edge-520-specific-instructions
The edge 520 has upto 98mb of space left for maps roughly left but best to keep it to about 75MB so you have space for activties and courses. I did a test and followed the guide as above to download the maps for the whole of the inner m25 london and all the areas in surrey/kent/herts/berkshire etc I ride in and it came to 75MB. So more than enough covers my areas I ride in plus it took me a couple of mins to generate the map files so would be happy updating it in future for any different areas I ride in.
So I sold the edge 520 to myself as it is the latest garmin cycle computer ignoring the edge 1000 which is huge and expensive! It is small, a significant upgrade on my edge 500, mapping and best of all only £20 for me!
How? That's great. Which health insurance?
Yeah what health insurance? I wonder if mine has anything like that, probably doesn't or they'd have mentioned it.
40nm right? What are you guys doing to these things!
How do people actually set up proper turn by turn navigation on the 810 etc? I tend to find it rarely notifies me of a turn although that could be useful sometimes. I normally export the TCX from Strava.
I couldn't get on with the 520 took it out for it's maiden voyage Sunday for 37 miles. I knew the route but wanted to test the navigation. I couldn't for the life of me get it to alert for a turn if I was on the stat screen. i.e. It would flick to the map screen when a turn was due. I'm not sure if it does that anyway!
I replaced the maps it came with to the openstreetmaps, which was a dead easy process and they do look very nice on the screen but I think coming from the 800 I really miss the turn by turn navigation.
A chap on youtube VeloGPS demonstrates how each device works while riding around.
I've ended up replacing it with the 1000 which hopefully will turn up at the weekend!
any pointers on the openstreetmaps process?
Select the course, select spanner icon, set 'Turn Guidance' to on, 'Virtual Partner' to off.
Do all my nuts and bolts up with a torque wrench. 40nm is right at the low end of my 1/2" wrench and the middle of the 3/8" one.
Nowhere near what I would call tight!
Do all my nuts and bolts up with a torque wrench. 40nm is right at the low end of my 1/2" wrench and the middle of the 3/8" one.
Nowhere near what I would call tight!