Vernon has put a computer on my bike ... now I'll *know* how slow I'm going!
AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
Don't worry. Once you get more than 20ft from home, the power cord gets pulled out the socket and the computer stops working ;-) Hope it was a laptop, desktops weigh too much to be carting them round on your bike.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
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Vernon has put a computer on my bike ... now I'll *know* how slow I'm going!
AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
If I were you I'd immediately take it off again (or ask him to, very sweetly). St. Paul of all people had something pertinent to say about cycling computers: 'Everything is permitted, but not everything is helpful.'
Vernon has put a computer on my bike ... now I'll *know* how slow I'm going!
Have a look in the manual, then tell the computer your wheel's slightly bigger than it really is. That way it'll look like you're going faster. It'll also do good things for your mileage ;-)
If I were you I'd immediately take it off again (or ask him to, very sweetly). St. Paul of all people had something pertinent to say about cycling computers: 'Everything is permitted, but not everything is helpful.'
Could be right Scott. Thing is he didn't put a computer on his own bike - even though there is one to go on it. I smell a conspiracy to get me to speed up on the bike. I shall resist. Resistance is *not* futile!
Cheers, helen s
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Have a look in the manual, then tell the computer your wheel's slightly bigger than it really is. That way it'll look like you're going faster. It'll also do good things for your mileage ;-)
Danny! You *sweetie* I think you have just explained the benefit of a cycling computer!
Cheers, helen s
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Vernon has put a computer on my bike ... now I'll *know* how slow I'm going!
AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
If there's a choice (as there is with Cateye Mity 3 for example), make sure it's set on "riding time" mode (or whatever they call it). Then the time spent stationary will not be factored in. To all who gaze upon your computer screen, you /will/ have done the distance in a short time at a decent average speed! Cheating? No, we all do it, don't we? :-)
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Vernon has put a computer on my bike ... now I'll *know* how slow I'm going!
If it's cordless, try putting a mobile phone near the display and moving it around gently - I got my son's to register 90mph that way, and it will clock up 30mph indefinately if you find the right spot.
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Have a look in the manual, then tell the computer your wheel's slightly bigger than it really is. That way it'll look like you're going faster. It'll also do good things for your mileage ;-)
Danny! You *sweetie* I think you have just explained the benefit of a
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computer!
Cheers, helen s
Careful Helen...you may end up arriving before you've left and proving every distance sign on your route wildly inaccurate ;-) Dave.
I have discovered the joys of a cycle computer and how it can *immediately* improve my cycling performance! I cycled over to the docs this morning and somehow, on the way there, I pressed the wrong button/too many buttons/wrong combination of buttons on the cycle computer. As a result, cycling home I found a stretch of road where, on the way to the docs, on a slightly downhill stretch I was pootling at 15- 16mph and on the way back, on same stretch of road, now an uphill section, I was doing 35mph.
Fancy that! I could get used to this!
Cheers, helen s
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