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Bill Baka
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New subject really this time. I went out for a ride yesterday and had an
average into the headwind of 12.2 since I was trying NOT to sweat up 5
layers of sweat shirts and create a whole load of laundry for my wife.
When I stopped to look at something I took off my speedometer and
noticed that the longer I was off the bike my average speed kept
dropping about 0.1 MPH every minute. The damn thing won't shut off for
about ten minutes after a ride. I know it is a cheapie Schwinn but
digital should know better. It is an accurate clock, speedometer,
odometer, etc., but this one thing is just insane. I keep it in my
pocket when not on the bike mount as a pocket watch so I wonder if every
time I check the time my average speed goes down. Now I reset it before
every ride. I did hit a new maximum speed of 39.2 going down a 12% (?)
hill but ran out of cadence at 35 so it was nose to the bar coasting,
but fun. Nice road, very few cars.
Anybody else got any steep hills to play on or max speeds to report?
How about weird speedometers?
Bill Baka
average into the headwind of 12.2 since I was trying NOT to sweat up 5
layers of sweat shirts and create a whole load of laundry for my wife.
When I stopped to look at something I took off my speedometer and
noticed that the longer I was off the bike my average speed kept
dropping about 0.1 MPH every minute. The damn thing won't shut off for
about ten minutes after a ride. I know it is a cheapie Schwinn but
digital should know better. It is an accurate clock, speedometer,
odometer, etc., but this one thing is just insane. I keep it in my
pocket when not on the bike mount as a pocket watch so I wonder if every
time I check the time my average speed goes down. Now I reset it before
every ride. I did hit a new maximum speed of 39.2 going down a 12% (?)
hill but ran out of cadence at 35 so it was nose to the bar coasting,
but fun. Nice road, very few cars.
Anybody else got any steep hills to play on or max speeds to report?
How about weird speedometers?
Bill Baka