Hey coasting. We need to pick on whooshie more in that troll jeans and t shirt thread

Anybody notice that gsteinb doesn't come round here anymore since he stopped being a mod. Looks like we're stuck with Billy.

At least lowcel doesn't abandon us

anyone would think we were trouble makers.

How could I ever leave all of you wonderful people, and pcad?

Fixed

Just jumped on the Garmin forums, apparently a lot of people are having the same problem that I am having. For such an expensive bike computer this is not right.

Who can forget?

You and PCUDDLES are shells of your former selves.

I see what you did there.

TLDR this thread - what is up with the ol' 810?

Here is the report I sent to Garmin.

I am having issues with the 810 reading power (wattage) consistently. While climbing steadily I will look down and watch the wattage go from 300 down to 100 then back up to 300 (numbers are examples only). This is a problem since I use power to pace myself and to train. It is also messing up my average power and my normalized power.

Today I used both my Garmin 500 and the 810 on the same ride to see how much of a difference there is.

On the 500 my avg power was 154 watts with a normalized power of 212 watts.
On the 810 my avg power was 146 and my normalized power was 199.

In my opinion this difference is too much. I am including links to the ride with both computers.

500 - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280073643

810 - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280044468

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He also unfriended me on Facebook.

Somehow, some way, I have managed to soldier on.

Some people think that the watch is a solution to a problem. Others think that it's a solution looking for a problem. In any event Apple needs something other than another smaller/larger/thinner/lighter product or they're going to loose even more steam.

It will sell a lot of units, I just wonder if it'll reach that critical mass tipping point where it becomes a must-have rather than a curiosity. I do think that it would be a cool toy, at the right price-point, but I'm sure that Apple's price point will be higher than I'm willing (they can't subsidy these things like they can with the phones).

there is no new world changing must have product. i challenge anyone to conceptualise it. smartphone wasn't even a new concept. mobile internet was the new concept during the dotcom bubble. apple just successfully realised the idea as a commercial product. ipad was a new concept.

what is a must carry object...wallet/purse and keys then phone, then tablet. nothing else.

I guess I'm turning into the new SA. #4 said those 3 magic words last night: "I was wrong." And then the 3 words that married men will rarely hear: "You were right."

<sigh> I'd rather be happy than right. Time will tell.

i haven't been following this ghastly thread. have you got some drama for us?

I believe they became the largest producers of watches in the world. http://www.swatchgroup.com/intro_en

Brief overview: #4's spending habits were getting out of control. I had been increasingly funding those habits. I finally put a stop to it and set limits, and she said she was leaving.

Apparently, after long consideration, the grass was not greener.

That's probably not how Billy views it. ;)

Is this the same with the brilliant photo from the left?

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I may not be good with names, but I remember imagery like that.

True, but hopefully that means Garmin really is paying attention and is working on a fix for it.

Extra points for the use of ghastly.

I had no idea that they bought up all those other brands. Heh.