Re: Since March 30

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun Apr 13 18:07:49 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

I finally started riding again March 30 and since then have gotten in 120
miles. 20 of those miles were not recorded on the Garmin which had
something to so with the software update.
 
In any case, that updatehad some funny actions. I did not turn on the
fall warning which was supposed to send an emergency message out through
your phone. But it never-the-less was operating from the strong
vibrations from the disc brakes. Yesterday I used the rim brake DeRosa
Merac and had no such messages. It did record the stop recording message
when I would come to a stop.
 
With two months off of the bike my legs are getting really tired from
every ride. And my average speed is back up to 11 mph from the 8 it had
dropped to after the last software update.
 
I know Roger doesn't think that the software is being updated and he is
quite correct that the software version number has not changed, but I
have noted that the operation of the Gatmin 830 has changed and version
numbers usually don't changer automatically (though I think that Microsoft Windows does.)

 
I have the same device so im well aware of any updates that come out, it?s
only had date updates ie time zones.
 
Its system is still on 9.75 unless one is in the Beta program which seems
unwise frankly! And has no updates for two years or so.
 
It?s Maps and Trailforks are 2024.20 so updates of the maps and trails last
year.
 
Considering that the 850/550 is likely in the next year or so, the idea
that they are still changing the interface on the xx30 generation when the
xx40 generation is out, the 830 has some love due to being ?old? and stable
if one can find one being sold, they aren?t sold by Garmin any more though
where until recently though the 130 does still remain.
 
In short you?re confused and just plain wrong about this.

 
So now I have to work my way up to riding like I had been. My climbing is
slow and labored and I have to be careful of my blood pressure.
 
I put 170 mm cranks on the DeRosa Idol instead of the 172.5 mm and AGAIN
I will repeat, despite Flunky's beliefs, I could defihnitely tell the
different between those and the 172.5's. The climg required me to drop
down another gear. And this was on some descent climbs.
 
I don't know, maybe he can't tell the difference but then he said that
unlike my experience racing, he never looked down at friction shifter
lever position and the actual pros I spoke to said that they always
looked at the levers before reaching down. Andrew said he never looked
down but I don't think he was referring to racing. Certainly you know
where the position of the lever is but in racing you don't want to be
grasping around trying to figure out what gear you're in.
 
So if Flunky never looked he was never up in the thick of the racing. No
big deal since he was racing for the sake of racing and not to be on the
front. When I was racing I sort of took it serious and although the cat
4's and 5's (I was 5) started a minute behind the Cat 1's, 2's and 3's, I
would ride right up to the tail end group of 3's and then be too
exhausted to do anything but ride with the tail end 3's. They did race
amoung themselves but eventuslly the fast 4's would catch and pass us. My
racing was all wrong and I should have stayed with the fast 4's which
would have put me ahead of all but the fastest 5's and I would have
advanced. But that was just at the time I damaged my lungs so in the end
it didn't matter at all. But I can say that I was a 5 that was as fast
than the slower 3's. For all that's worth.
 
I have all of my bikes except for the DeRosa's and the Time up for sale.
I do have someone interested in the Di2 Ridley. If that sells it should
be easier to sell the other bikes because they are all high end bikes
with Dura Ace on them (Colnago Dream HP, Moser M82 and Specialized Allez
with a Campy 11 speed Centaur group. If the Time rides like I think it
will, I will also sell the Basso Loto and the BMC SLC-01 which has an 11
speed Campy Chorus group.

 
 
 
 
Roger, this was not a road update. What's more, as I explained to you, my
av erage speed went from 8 mph to 10.5 to 11 mph which it was before
after January of 2023. This WAS NOT from me setting the setting of the
stop feature that Flunky brought to my attention (and which wasn't in the
operations section of the manual) but was shown as "Average moving speed"
in the readout on Garmin Express.
 
So I don't know why you continue to say that there was no update because
in January I put in 400 miles and showed an average of 8 mph while On
March 28 when I took my  first complete ride since the stroke, it said
that I needed a software update, completed that in a minute or more, and
then had a 10.5 mph "moving average" which it didn't have before. And
after the two months off and the stroke interfering with my vision
somewhat, I feel quite a bit slower than in January.
 
So stop saying that my 830 wasn't updated because ALL of the numbers say
that you're incorrect. And the Garmin Expres SAID that my computer
program needed updating. Now it is saying that my road maps need updating
and I don't do that because it is so slight it only takes a second or
two. The roads are not changing. So the Express said I needed an update
and the averrage speed numbers are more than 25% faster. And I am
tangibly slower because I cannot keep up with the group now when I could lead it before.
 
 
 

Tom your claiming the world is flat! Remember I have the same unit and am
well aware of any updates or rather lack of updates it gets.

Roger Merriman