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arknor said:
Point's where I pretty much come to a stop or mostly dogs getting in the way or stupid barriers to stop motorbikes going along the river side/horse gates
I guess I should start doing more short rides trying to be quicker like above to work on my speed or do intervals?
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Or start riding routes where there are no dogs/barriers/gates in the way :p
 
arknor said:
I don't feel fast enough for roads :S I always feel like I'm holding people up.

I know my average speed would go up but I'd still be hitting a wall around 20mph
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20 mph is plenty. 15 mph is plenty. So what if you're holding people up? You pay council tax, you have as much right to use the road as any other road user. Heck, I ride on roads with the missus at a leisurely pace of 11mph.

Should horse riders get off the road because they're too slow? Or tractors?
 
arknor said:
I don't feel fast enough for roads :S I always feel like I'm holding people up.

I know my average speed would go up but I'd still be hitting a wall around 20mph
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Everyone hits a wall at some point. Air resistance increases with the square of speed, so even going from 12mph to 14mph you're experiencing over 1/3 more air resistance. Going from 12mph all the way to 20mph means not far off three times as much air resistance.

Just keep practising and pushing yourself. Set out to consistently manage 14mph, then 15mph, and so on.
 
Ok, so....a stupid question coming up, on my Garmin 810, is there a way of typing in a postcode and it calculating a route to that point, on the fly? Or do you ALWAYS have to have a GPX file in so it can tell you where to go?
 
physichull said:
Ok, so....a stupid question coming up, on my Garmin 810, is there a way of typing in a postcode and it calculating a route to that point, on the fly? Or do you ALWAYS have to have a GPX file in so it can tell you where to go?
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Should just work out where you need to go and give you the fastest route, like a normal satnav, however if you deviate off route, it won't recalculate until you tell it to.
 
physichull said:
Ok, so....a stupid question coming up, on my Garmin 810, is there a way of typing in a postcode and it calculating a route to that point, on the fly? Or do you ALWAYS have to have a GPX file in so it can tell you where to go?
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The dcrainmaker review suggests you can only navigate to pre-defined points e.g. points of interest on the maps, addresses you've added in, etc. So you could put in your home address, and then route to that from anywhere in the country, but you couldn't arbitrarily decide you wanted to route to my house unless you'd already set it up in your Garmin. If you wanted to do that, you'd have to route to the nearest point of interest that the maps already had, I guess.
 
chanjy said:
No chance of him going to TdF then realistically, right?

Froome not in top top form either, would hate to see Contador win again :(
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I can't imagine he'll get picked for the Tour off the back of this. Froome seems a much safer bet, given that he was pretty solid in the Criterium until his late crash. Wiggins not even finishing, and being way down the pack as it was, isn't exactly a great recommendation for him.

But yeah, Contador looks to be a threat this year :(
 
Vonhelmet said:
The dcrainmaker review suggests you can only navigate to pre-defined points e.g. points of interest on the maps, addresses you've added in, etc. So you could put in your home address, and then route to that from anywhere in the country, but you couldn't arbitrarily decide you wanted to route to my house unless you'd already set it up in your Garmin. If you wanted to do that, you'd have to route to the nearest point of interest that the maps already had, I guess.
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Really? I can just put in a post code on my 800 and it will route me there.

It also recalculates, provided you've got that feature turned on in the settings. My car has an integrated sat nav so I use my edge 800 when I'm in other vehicles.
 
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[DOD]Asprilla;26474122 said:
Really? I can just put in a post code on my 800 and it will route me there.
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Like I said, I'm just going off the review...

Maybe it depends on what maps you have in there? If it has all the postcodes already stored in it, then I suppose it should work.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;26474122 said:
Really? I can just put in a post code on my 800 and it will route me there.

It also recalculates, provided you've got that feature turned on in the settings. My car has an integrated sat nav so I use my edge 800 when I'm in other vehicles.
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where? I can't find an option for that? what maps have you got out of interest?
 
physichull said:
Ok, so....a stupid question coming up, on my Garmin 810, is there a way of typing in a postcode and it calculating a route to that point, on the fly? Or do you ALWAYS have to have a GPX file in so it can tell you where to go?
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you can on the 800 and there's settings for the types of roads it should try to avoid too. the 810 should also have it surely

MENU > Where to? > scroll down the screen to "addresses" select "England" or spell the country and you should get the option "Spell City/Postal Code"

You can also

Menu > Where to? > click the icon at the bottom that looks like an archery target and select "A Map Point" scroll around the map and stick a pin in where you want to go and then on the coordinates or the street name at the top if you touch it on the next screen if you select the flag icon it saves it as one of your locations like how "garmin europe" etc are on by default

Don't forget in menu > settings > routing there's options for if you want to calculate a route for a car, bike or pedestrian and the settings for avoiding highways etc
 
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An option for what?

I've got the Garmin European maps on mine.

For the re-routing it's; menu>spanner>system>routing>recalculate - on

For post code routing it's; where to?>addresses - enter country - enter post code - enter house number (or leave blank) - GO.
 
I think you need the City Navigator maps for postcode routing?

My 800 had it out of the box but came with the Navigator maps. My 810 didn't have postcode routing until I installed the Navigator maps.
 
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