Garmin, maintenance, and windy weather

Posted on 2011/04/01. Filed under: Bike changes, Cycling | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

My Garmin Edge 705 has been crashing recently.  It only seems to do it as I set off home from work (about 4:15pm).  Sometimes it restarts itself, a couple of times it has completely locked – apparently dead, nothing on the screen at all – and needed a ‘soft reset’ to get it working again.  [...]

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Saturday morning paper shop ride

Posted on 2010/05/15. Filed under: Cycling | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last night I had 77km left to meet this weeks Garmin Connect goal.  I normally do 22km to get the newspaper on a Saturday morning, and I expect to do 52km tomorrow with the other half (she’s only rowing once), which would leave me an annoying 3km short of the goal.  The easiest seeming thing [...]

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Lighter evenings

Posted on 2010/02/18. Filed under: Cycling | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The evenings are getting lighter.  This means I should be able to extend my commute home a bit, more chance of making the Garmin Connect goals.  I managed it today, by calling in at Homebase and taking the longer route there and back, I got in 23km instead of 12km on the way home.  When the mornings [...]

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Effing Stagecoach Busses

Posted on 2010/01/23. Filed under: Cycling | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

I’d just been to get todays paper in Milton and was heading off for the return part of my ride.  Coming out of Fen Road I turned left to go along High Street on to  Cambridge Road.  Further up High Street, on my right, there was a bus also turning to come the same direction.  [...]

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