Re: RE: Re: Garmin Edge

On 5/19/2025 6:40 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Mon May 19 19:08:52 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have trouble reading my Garmin 830 with my sunglasses on so I just
bought a 1030 which had a bigger display.
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It only cost me $250 which underscores the point of Flunky using virtual
rides to claim rediculous distances and speeds which no one his age could possibly do.
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I've already shown that I ride the averages shown in all of the bicycle
statistical sites. So if Flunky really thinks that he does these
distances and speeds all he has to do it buy a Garmin 530 which are
easily available and PROVE it with his own Garmin data?
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This is underscoring the fact that I am not arguing that he rides or
perhaps he is even more advanced than I am. But he tells everyone that I
am slow when I am normal and he tells everyone that he is rediculously
fast when he couldn't possibly be.
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We have been having these arguments for years and now it is down to the
point of put up or shut up. Frank hardly rides at all and he is giving
advice? He may be the very picture of an older touring rider. I could
accept that. But his crap about helmets or road bikes must be tgaiken
very much for what it is worth - as an opinion from a slow careful rider.
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Liebermann has now shown his advice to be worthless. What would cause him
to comment on my rides when he can hardly sit on a bike let alone ride? I
don't like to do him an injustice but he continues day after day!
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So come on Flunky - break your bank and get a Garmin and prove to us that
you're riding 17 mph averages. Or 20 mph averages. Or 200 mile rides with
20 mph average speeds!
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He has a Garmin just not an edge unit.
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You are not covering yourself in glory with this!

    He CLAIMS to have a Garmin

I have a 745 and a 530. Strava lists the electronics the ride was recorded with.
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but then he doesn't know that you set up a smart trainer with power to weight ratio.

where the fuck did you come up with that?  No, you don't "set up a smart trainer with power to weight ratio". The only set-up you do with a smart trainer is to enter your weight, then do a spin down calibration.

Time after time he make statements that are so far off as to be laughable.

Funny that the people I ride with post far higher numbers than me.

If I were you I would hesitate to believe anything not substatiated by fact.

By that metric, you're the most unbelievable person in this forum.

 Do you believe that all of those all of those cycling sources I cited were full of shit about age vs. average speed?

You linked one blog that referenced untrained cyclist levels. Full of shit? no. Accurate in the context of this discussion? no. In our context, the chart from Andrew Coggin (the inventor of the FTP metric) is accurate and relevant.

He doesn't claim to be 10% faster, he claims to be more thabn 100% faster.

Per Andrew Coggins chart I'm on the low side of mediocre.

Then it turns out to be "virtual rides" which is on a trainer without the presence of rolling resistance or wind.

lol...sure, and you understand how virtual trainers work.....HAH!!!
The rolling resistance is calibrated into the trainer during the spin-down, and the program will add drag to simulate headwinds. Zwift even offers offsets depending on the bike and wheels you select. Aero and TT bikes are given better CdAas, but climbing bikes are given less load on the climbs. Suffice it to say, a smart trainer is one helluvalot smarter than you are.

 Is it your practice to believe fairey tales like that? OK, you find me obnoxious harping on these things. But I most CERTAINLY never started it.

Yes, you did start it.

Liebermann was calling my description of a ride up a local canyon with a total claim of abvut 1200 feet a lie because he was looking at an undated photo on Google Earth!
 He also pretends to be an electronics engineer when he has never been able to work as one. Unless you count one job where he was a QC engineer and was so disliked that he was fired without a job reference.
 Krygowski worked one job as an industrial engineer. Now don't get me wrong, and industrial engineer setting up a workplace, assembly lines etc. is indeed a mechanical engineer but Frank was a maintenance engineer that was never called upon to exercise mechanical engnineering skills. It isn''t my quote when I say that "those who can, do, and those who can't, teach".
 Flunky spends his entire day on this group and comments on every posting.

I do?

That says everything you need to know about him. He is nothing more than a EE that his company needs to sign off on paperwork. When I put a simple piece of C code on the group he couldn't understand it at all.

no matter how many ties you tell that lie, it will never become true.

All it did was blink light in accordance with battery level.

Yet you weren't aware of the system architecture vis integrated vs peripheral A/D converter.

Now he claims that he is a programmer.

I've never claimed to be a programmer. I've claimed the exact opposite. I've programed under my protestations. Fortunately I'm more than competent enough to get the system to work, as it has been for over 5 years in our MfG automated test cell.
I was absolutely bored to tears during that project. Thankfully, I'm only called into it now when they have high fallout in WIP.