on 2/16/11 7:48 AM, PATRICK MOORE at [email protected] wrote: > Tell me about this Garmin: what sort of wheel sensor does it use? Is > it wireless? Does it mount on the bar or go in a pocket?
The Garmin (and others) are GPS based, reading your change in position via the GPS satellite system. I've been messing around with an iPhone-based app called "Cyclemeter" (thanks to RBW-weekend-guy Harry) which is optimized (from a user interface pov) for cycling, walking and running. It allows you to upload or transfer the .gpx files, which other sites turn into mapping data (and there's a mapping function w/in the program). It seems pretty nice, but I haven't worked deeply with it. I've been using it to indirectly record post-work, non-regular-route commutes home. My second-hand impression of the feedback on the SF Randonneurs list is that the GPS-specific rigs are more efficient in battery life. There are some "logging" units which have little in the way of interface quality, but just tracking where you go (and have longer use per charge). hope that helps, - Jim -- Jim Edgar [email protected] Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com "Maybe a bike, once discarded, pines away year after year for the first hand that steered it, and as it grows old it dreams, in its bike way, of the young roads." -- Robert McCammon, "Boy's Life" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
