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Shamrock said:
Warning to others, avoid Shiny Bikes.

Absolutely rubbish customer service and their website is ****.
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I can not say I'm surprised. I was considering buying some big ticket items from them last year as the prices seemed pretty good.

I did a lot of research about them... well I tired to, there wasn't much information floating around. I gathered that its a pretty small operation and things are bought to order.

I didn't buy from them in the end.

What has gone wrong?? Hopefully sharing your experiences will help others make decisions in the future as to whether to buy or not.
 
FrenchTart said:
Out of interest, why would you say the 810 is not worth the difference? Is it just because you don't use the navigation features (in which case, I'd agree)?

I have actually been thinking lately that the 510 with mapless navigation could kind of work for some routes.
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I liked my 800, which is basically the 810, but it wasn't powerful enough once you done a long ride and would take ages for the map. The 1000 for the extra screen space and power is definitely worth it, but I'd probably go for a 510 lower down the range. But going abroad having maps is the best use of them!
 
Admittedly I'm on the 810 (but as you say, should be no difference aside from the bluetooth ride uploads iirc?) and I've not had any real issues with map rendering taking ages for long rides, including on my double imperial last weekend. That said, it crashes like a champ.
 
I wouldn't recommend getting a Garmin 1000, I'm on my 2nd unit, maybe I'm just unlucky but both have been pretty terrible. The first one had to go back to Garmin, as it stopped charging. I'm pretty sure it took out a motherboard as well, and if I hooked it up to an old XP machine, it kept saying the device caused a power surge. The replacement unit works, but it freezes an awful lot. For example, it's not usable whilst searching for satellites. The touchscreen also doesn't respond if it's very cold (my original unit didn't do this).

Having said all of the above, I love having easy access to a map. I very often go for rides without a set route in mind, and then when I get lost and have had enough I can tell the Garmin to take me home :) In hindsight, I probably would have gone with the 800/810 or non-Garmin unit.
 
FrenchTart said:
Climbed the tiny hill near my house today and it utterly destroyed me. We're talking about 40ft of climbing :/ Fairly sure I'm ill. Either that or I've suddenly lost 90% of my fitness (actually wouldn't be shocked).
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Potentially a bit ill but could also be your double century catching up with you, after a ride like that it takes me a week at least to fully recover. Do some easy spins in the meantime and don't worry too much.
 
janp said:
I wouldn't recommend getting a Garmin 1000, I'm on my 2nd unit, maybe I'm just unlucky but both have been pretty terrible. The first one had to go back to Garmin, as it stopped charging. I'm pretty sure it took out a motherboard as well, and if I hooked it up to an old XP machine, it kept saying the device caused a power surge. The replacement unit works, but it freezes an awful lot. For example, it's not usable whilst searching for satellites. The touchscreen also doesn't respond if it's very cold (my original unit didn't do this).

Having said all of the above, I love having easy access to a map. I very often go for rides without a set route in mind, and then when I get lost and have had enough I can tell the Garmin to take me home :) In hindsight, I probably would have gone with the 800/810 or non-Garmin unit.
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I've had the odd crash/freeze with mine, but other than that been all good. latest update seems to have resolved all that!
 
One More Solo said:
Potentially a bit ill but could also be your double century catching up with you, after a ride like that it takes me a week at least to fully recover. Do some easy spins in the meantime and don't worry too much.
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Yeah, you could be right. I thought that my two days of full rest and then taking it extremely easy yesterday would be enough but perhaps it isn't :/
 
janp said:
Cleats?? Could one of them have slipped and changed angle slightly? That happened to a mate of mine. Have you changed saddle position, that always does my knees in, if I haven't go it exactly right.
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good call on the cleat.. may have been that :/ I will take a look today! hopefully it is that and it can be sorted quickly.. saddle/rest of the bike has not been fiddled with.

that's why I find it so random to just come out of nowhere?!
 
Vonhelmet said:
I've cycled to many unknown places with mapless navigation on my 500. Set course points 200 feet ahead of turnings with bikehike and it does the job perfectly.
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I've been very disappointed with the BT/wifi sync to my S5, it's flakey at best. Around 30% of rides don't auto-sync, turning off the 810 and turning back on resolves some. 50% of these I have to manually go into the ride and press on the 'upload button'. There are a small number (say less than 10% of the original 30%) which refuse to do anything unless I plug the 810 into my PC.

'turn-by-turn' navigation is ok, but not something I would rely on. I feel a breadcrumb route on a map is probably a better thing to 'follow' when out riding - actually looking for the roads and direction rather than the map. There's several times I've cycled up and down all roads from a junction to figure out which my 810 doesn't say is 'off course'. I ignore it now and I have direction showing on screen along with knowing which direction I should be heading and use that instead. Helps to also plan your routes without too many complicated direction changes/junctions close together. But not planning or having to remember the route is one reason we're using navigation isn't it! ;) :p

Basically 2 of the main things which set the 810 apart from the 510 I don't feel are very reliable.

SoliD said:
But going abroad having maps is the best use of them!
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Tell me more! Currently using talkytoaster maps and I'm off to Rhodes next week, I did a browse around (on the 810) and don't see any of my maps going outside of the UK.

FrenchTart said:
That said, it crashes like a champ.
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I've had a couple of freezes/crashes but usually when loading a course/route not with anything else.

janp said:
Having said all of the above, I love having easy access to a map. I very often go for rides without a set route in mind, and then when I get lost and have had enough I can tell the Garmin to take me home :) In hindsight, I probably would have gone with the 800/810 or non-Garmin unit.
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The 'take me home' and 'back to start of course' I find useful, but think you have them on the 510 too?

topgun06 said:
I did a lot of research about them... well I tired to, there wasn't much information floating around. I gathered that its a pretty small operation and things are bought to order.

I didn't buy from them in the end.

What has gone wrong?? Hopefully sharing your experiences will help others make decisions in the future as to whether to buy or not.
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I think that's a fairly good thing to do, I always find this thread popping up on my cycling related google searches so it always rates quite highly in search engines (like very busy/popular forums tend to) :)
 
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Berger said:
I was aiming to do one metric a month.

Did one in jan, three in February, one in March and failed in April, I got sick, went away and had a couple of busy weekends, the most I did was 90.

75 is the most so far this month, aiming to do one on Saturday and get back into it!
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Boom!

Finished work early and knocked one out, did 50km and met up with my mate whose training for ironman worlds and did another 50, the last 90 minutes in the dark.

100km and 800m elevation. Did a few hard efforts towards the end, 1 minute powering out the saddle at 500w+ up a pinch at 70km and a tough little CAT4 (326w average) after 85km at 8% or so, could feel my legs were cramping when doing 350-400w (couldn't see power in the dark!).

Averaged 222w, NP 246w, average speed 29.9kmh (so close to magic 30!).

Need to get the longer rides in and get used to it, help reduce that cramp from hard efforts after a long ride. I had two bottles of High5 zero, two muesli bars and a banana which felt about right.
 
Re: Shiny Bikes

I ordered some Bora One 35s from them on the 18th. "Big ticket" item you might say. No options for expedited delivery, just basic Royal Mail delivery on an expensive wheelset!

On May 20 I still haven't had dispatch notification so I email asking when I can expect an update/dispatch. They don't reply. I call up and they say "Oh we're sorry, the wheels went out of stock just as you ordered". Okay, so I asked them to cancel and refund me. Wiggle just got some new stock so I bought from there.

Fast forward to today and my order is still on their system under my account and I haven't been refunded my money. Will be calling them this lunchtime.
 
ShiWarrior said:
oh dear, what you done ?

my back on the other hand feels pretty good now

will be starting core excurses in about 3 weeks time I recon
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nothing at all, even rested more than my usual during the weekend.. seriously bad pain in the knee since yesterday evening?! I hate when something as random as this hits really! could hardly keep 15mph on the commute to work today due to pain..
 
Get some more rest and do a bit of foam rolling on your quads, ITB and glutes. Maybe check to see if your saddle has slipped too.

Which part of your knee is painful? Front/back? Below kneedcap? Etc.
 
grudas said:
nothing at all, even rested more than my usual during the weekend.. seriously bad pain in the knee since yesterday evening?! I hate when something as random as this hits really! could hardly keep 15mph on the commute to work today due to pain..
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ouch, sorry to hear that, if it was your leg, I would suggest putting ice on it for 15 mins, then off for an hour then back on for another 15 mins, should ease, but knee, not sure

I would check your shoes, redo your cleats (take them off, clean shoes and cleats, back on), check your saddle bolts (height as well as forward and back)
 
I took the gamble and went for one of the Gabba's from the www.theshed.com (a few pages back). Turns out they have taken my money but they don't have any stock to fullfill the orders.

Did anyone actually get a Gabba from them?
 
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