Re: Suspension losses

Am Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:47:52 -0500 schrieb Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>:

On 1/11/2025 4:22 PM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:

Am Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:06:46 -0500 schrieb zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>:
 
 

I'm no fan of electronic shifting - it would be just my luck to be on
planed 4-6 hour ride, and have something crap out at the furthest point
from the car/house. That said, I'm never going back to discrete shifters.

 
It isn't that difficult to carry a CR2032 and a tiny 25 g rechargeable
battery somewhere. The coin cell lasts about two years, the battery is
good for about 800-1000 km. Both warn early via LED on the device or via
a Garmin Edge computer, for not having to care during a 4-6 hour ride.
 

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But how many threads have we had here about problems with Garmin computers?

Don't know. My Garmin GPSMap 60CSx
<https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/technik/komponenten/navi/IMG_1405.jpeg>
that I bought in early 2008 is still working, but I replaced it by a
better version (a 64 s), when this was sold at a very low price, in
2018.  I still use it as an outdoor device, when walking or for just
recording a track on a long car ride.  Can't report real problems when
using an EDGE 1030 plus, so far, because I haven't had none. 

By the way, before it gets lost, while it is indeed convenient to be
warned about low battery by the Garmin 1030, it isn't necessary for
checking battery state. Both shifters display the state, when activated
(full, low, critical), and so does the derailleur. In both cases, low is
signaled early enough to still have about a day of riding left.

There _are_ problems with devices like that, just with any new
technology.  But these aren't.  Our bikes and their wireless shifting is
perfectly useable without a Garmin computer, or a similar device of
another brand.


In my home town, I see many cyclists riding around on almost flat rear
tires. This is somewhat dangerous. New cars have obligatory tire
pressure warning, for quite some time. Most of these need maintenance,
costing money.  Such devices exist for bicycles, too. One of our sons
used such a device on his bike, out of curiosity. It caused more
problems than it solved, so he dismantled it.

I fear that some fool comes up with the idea of making such a
montitoring device mandatory for bicycles, too, perhaps by pointing to
modern bicycles, ahem, to E-Bikes. :-/ We can't be safe enough, right?
Right? :-)


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