I finally got a computer!
10-31-05, 11:13 AM
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I finally got a computer!
Yeah... so I decided to start a whole thread about it.. hehe 
Just thought I would share my excitement. I can finally see how many miles I'm racking up.
This morning's commute:
Total Distance: 10.46mi
Total Time: 0.42.11
Average Speed: 14.7mph
Max Speed: 30.0mph
yay me!
I'm also hoping to get a new mountain bike (not for commuting) in the next couple weeks... but we'll save that for another thread
Just thought I would share my excitement. I can finally see how many miles I'm racking up.
This morning's commute:
Total Distance: 10.46mi
Total Time: 0.42.11
Average Speed: 14.7mph
Max Speed: 30.0mph
yay me!
I'm also hoping to get a new mountain bike (not for commuting) in the next couple weeks... but we'll save that for another thread
10-31-05, 11:25 AM
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Ok...so what's the brand...
10-31-05, 11:30 AM
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Nothing special, just a Cateye Enduro 8. I'm just happy I can watch the miles tick by now.
10-31-05, 11:31 AM
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You will love every ticking second of it .... congratulations. Bike puters rules
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10-31-05, 12:21 PM
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yeah I like Cateye too, especially those large display numbers.
I have the Enduro model on my hybrid commuter & an Astrale 8 on the road C'dale, both calibrated properly to the tire size (printed on sidewalls)
According to one, work distance is 9.14 miles, the other claims 10.2 miles on same route. I am trying to figure out which one is the liar.
I have the Enduro model on my hybrid commuter & an Astrale 8 on the road C'dale, both calibrated properly to the tire size (printed on sidewalls)
According to one, work distance is 9.14 miles, the other claims 10.2 miles on same route. I am trying to figure out which one is the liar.
10-31-05, 12:24 PM
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For maximum accuracy, you'll need to do a roll-out. Mark a spot at the bottom of the tire, roll the bike along a straight line, and note when the spot is again at the bottom of the tire. The distance between the two locations along the straight line is the circumference of the tire, which you'll enter into the computer. Do this as carefully as possible for each bike, and you'll probably find the ride distances for each computer to be very close to one another.
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You know if you tweek the tire calibration setting you can go faster. In fact, if you set the tire diameter to 0... you'll hit the speed of light! Then you'll save a lot of money because you won't need a light system. But on the flip side, it makes everything farther away.
Anyways, be careful of the bear.
Anyways, be careful of the bear.
10-31-05, 01:03 PM
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Calibrating it around a .0000299mm wheel would pretty easily let you reach light speed.
If you set the diameter to 0 you'd be going infinitely fast, which is obviously impossible.
If you set the diameter to 0 you'd be going infinitely fast, which is obviously impossible.
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you'd have to make the number bigger to go faster, not smaller 
yeah I did the rollout 3 times to make sure I measured it just right. The chart that came with the cateye said that my 26x1.5 tires would have a 201cm rollout. Mine are actually 199 (slicks). So if I had gone by their chart I'd be getting an extra 2cm per revolution of the wheel on the odo. ...I guess that could add up
yeah I did the rollout 3 times to make sure I measured it just right. The chart that came with the cateye said that my 26x1.5 tires would have a 201cm rollout. Mine are actually 199 (slicks). So if I had gone by their chart I'd be getting an extra 2cm per revolution of the wheel on the odo. ...I guess that could add up
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Originally Posted by nitroRoo
you'd have to make the number bigger to go faster, not smaller
14932495936mm should about do it.
10-31-05, 01:39 PM
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Hehe
No wonder there's some people claiming average speeds of 25 mph barely breaking a sweat
No wonder there's some people claiming average speeds of 25 mph barely breaking a sweat
10-31-05, 01:43 PM
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You know if you tweek the tire calibration setting you can go faster. In fact, if you set the tire diameter to 0... you'll hit the speed of light!
(see: E=MC 2)
10-31-05, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Aw son of a...
14932495936mm should about do it.
14932495936mm should about do it.
well... due to extreme boredome... I did some math.
my 30mph max = 24,261.4673 revolutions per hour.
If my tires had a circumference of 1493249593.6 cm my speed would have actually equalled 225,113,004 mph
Since the actual speed of light is 670,616,629 mph, that wouldn't have quite gotten me there. Need to train more I guess
10-31-05, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Yeah, so you'll probably want to be sure to run your tires at maximum pressure.
10-31-05, 02:18 PM
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How about this then. Setting the tire diameter really really large. Sure, you won't make much speed. But you'll get incredible distance. Infact, you would already be there and... you won't have the weight gain.
Either way, you still have to watch out for the bear.
Either way, you still have to watch out for the bear.
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I think you got it wrong, believe me been there done that: as you approach to the speed of light time slows down dramatically. Its weird, the faster you pedal the slower time passes by, causing you to arrive late to work every time.
Please dont' try that unless a pinky slip is desired.
Please dont' try that unless a pinky slip is desired.
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10-31-05, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by nitroRoo
you'd have to make the number bigger to go faster, not smaller
yeah I did the rollout 3 times to make sure I measured it just right. The chart that came with the cateye said that my 26x1.5 tires would have a 201cm rollout. Mine are actually 199 (slicks). So if I had gone by their chart I'd be getting an extra 2cm per revolution of the wheel on the odo. ...I guess that could add up
yeah I did the rollout 3 times to make sure I measured it just right. The chart that came with the cateye said that my 26x1.5 tires would have a 201cm rollout. Mine are actually 199 (slicks). So if I had gone by their chart I'd be getting an extra 2cm per revolution of the wheel on the odo. ...I guess that could add up
To look fast, just switch to kilometres.
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actually going faster is much easier to obtain
simplay attache an extra magnet to each of the spokes on that side of the wheel
send more signals
more signals
speaking of experiments... here's one:
Attach a magneto generator to your bike and terminate it on your handle bars, or better, your butt cheek
as you go faster, more current is directed to your body (not so much that your health is impaired... just a tingle)
Question: how fast will you go until you have to slow down to deal with the current/tingle?
Can you adapt to the tingle?
simplay attache an extra magnet to each of the spokes on that side of the wheel
send more signals
more signals
speaking of experiments... here's one:
Attach a magneto generator to your bike and terminate it on your handle bars, or better, your butt cheek
as you go faster, more current is directed to your body (not so much that your health is impaired... just a tingle)
Question: how fast will you go until you have to slow down to deal with the current/tingle?
Can you adapt to the tingle?
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Originally Posted by Dchiefransom
To look fast, just switch to kilometres.
I just got my Cateye 'puter this weekend, and took it out for a test spin. Just rolling down the neighborhood bike path, I was coasting at 15 and accelerating to 25 and up without really breathing hard.
I was so proud of myself for a while. Then I realized that I had logged 5 on the odometer, just biking around the 'hood. I started to get a little suspicious.
Ahhhhh, kmh is a whole lot different from mph.
D'oh.
Oh well, I was flippin FAST for a while there.
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Don't trust that technology y'all! The govamint wants us to all have computers on us so they can keep track of us and clip our bike chains as soon as we lock up to a sign post! It's all part of the oil conspiracy to make us use cars instead of bikes! Throw them computers away! They monitoring what I'm writing right now and the doorbell just rang and it's probably the FBI!
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Originally Posted by taterhead
I just got my Cateye 'puter this weekend, and took it out for a test spin. Just rolling down the neighborhood bike path, I was coasting at 15 and accelerating to 25 and up without really breathing hard.
I was so proud of myself for a while. Then I realized that I had logged 5 on the odometer, just biking around the 'hood. I started to get a little suspicious.
Ahhhhh, kmh is a whole lot different from mph.
I was so proud of myself for a while. Then I realized that I had logged 5 on the odometer, just biking around the 'hood. I started to get a little suspicious.
Ahhhhh, kmh is a whole lot different from mph.
I did the same this weekend. Wow! I'm going 30 on my MTB! Wait...Doh!
