Thought I would post a thread about my 2021 transalp.
My Son and I are biking from home near Munich in Germany over the Alps, through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy to Lake Garda.
Day one of our 2021 Transalp is behind us .
We started at 9:00am in rain and 10 degrees Celsius.
The first...
I had glasses with clip ins for ages... but avoid these as they are a Pain to keep clean!.
I tend to sweat a lot and when sweat drips between the lenses you have to pull them apart to clean which is a fiddle and takes too long.
I also have Oakley frames with a standard photochromatic lens. It...
Lazy bastards. All they do is hook the bike up to a computer, set some parameters and let it run.
So from their time it is taking about 2 or 3 minutes.
Tool is not really a bad thing. If it is a simple allen key, you can easily take one with you instead of a key.
And if you forget, it, then it is not difficult to get one from another biker or something.
I did a long ride with a friend of mine where we took 2 batteries. He forgot his key and we...
What Ricky said.
It depends on terrain, your weight and the ground you are riding on. Also how much you use your legs.
I don't look at the range setting any more, it is always way off and can make you nervous when you are going up hill. The calculation doesn't know that after going up, you...
I changed over to emtb a few years ago after my Giant Trance was stolen. A friend convinced me to try an emtb before buying a new bike. I have been smiling ever since.
And am much fitter than before because I ride much much more than I used to.
I have the same combo, Kiox & S10+
Have had ridiculous problems with the connection. If you stop and turn the bike off, when you turn it on again, then it wouldn't auto connect unless you stopped and re-sterted the bluetooth on the phone.
I tried the Kiox navigation a few times and completely...