Hi Mike
I'm glad to hear you're having fun on your tandem. I'm thinking of getting
one myself.
I also love my gps, especially since I've acquired my holux receiver. This
even works indoors in my pocket.
What bluetooth earphones can you recommend for the bn M-power?
Regards, RS. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] GPS on a bike
This weekend, my brother visited and we took both of our custom tandems for a 30 mile ride to and from Winters, just West of Davis. This reminded me not only of the fun of cycling but also of using the GPS along the way.
Most serious bike riders have an electronic device that gives them lots of good information like how far you have ridden and how fast you are going. We can of course get that information and a lot mor on the Sendero GPS.
I really enjoyed the distraction of knowing what intersections were coming up, how far to the next turn and how far to the destination as well as knowing our speed. We made pretty good time because I hated to have our speed drop below 14 miles per hour. Occasionally we would get up to the mid 20s. It is pretty flat around these parts.
I rode on one tandem with my wife and my brother rode the other tandem with my 12 year-old son. We compared notes on the speed calculation between his bicycle calculator and my GPS. His unit displayed one mile per hour faster than my GPS. Our distance traveled calculation was pretty similar.
One practical issue was how to wear my PK. I ended up hooking the shoulder strap through my belt so the unit was on my waste and it wouldn't swing around. I used my bluetooth earpiece, which worked out wonderfully. I may dig out a chest harness I used to use skiing for radios as it might be easier to feel the Braille display if the PK was mounted higher on my body. I know Gil Lutz has a special bracket for his VoiceNote on the handle bars of his tandem and I might try something like that too.
This mode of travel also made me realize that we needed a new type of route calculation. I wasn't quite pedestrian and not quite vehicular. What I really needed was to be able to calculate vehicular type routes but a route that avoided freeways. This could be handy too for those times when you know a freeway has a lot of traffic and you want to take surface streets. We'll add this feature request to the wish list.
Mike
Michael G. May
CEO Sendero Group
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