I am superwoman

suzyb
suzyb Posts: 3,449
edited September 2010 in Commuting chat
Brought my bike to work today and went for lunch by bike instead of car. And my max speed (as reported by my Tesco computer): 69.4mph :D

That must have been some tail wind on the road out :lol:
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    So next year's Predal for Scotland in about 45 minutes then?
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    That's good going..... Did the Pope bless your legs yesterday as he past?
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Vicki Pendleton has nothing on you!

    See you on the top step of the podium at London 2012
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    :lol::lol:

    The London crew should be scared of you now :)
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    We really should. Once she gets on a motorway and has no peds or red lights to worry about, she could be down here in about 5 hours to rip all of our scalps off!
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Pfft, the top speed that nokia sports tracker has me at is 911mph.

    Keep training! ;)
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    So it's not just cheap Tesco computers that pluck random max speeds out of the air.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Aidy wrote:
    Pfft, the top speed that nokia sports tracker has me at is 911mph.

    Keep training! ;)
    And I'll raise you a pfffffffffffft. 911? MPH? Cobblers. You've got it set to KMh.

    :wink:
  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    According to my Garmin (running on the dodgy 3.2 firmware at the time, since been pulled from garmin.com due to all the problems), I did the last day of Pedal to Paris, 60.19 miles, which matched the route guide pretty much, in 4:49. So far so good. But it reckoned moving time was 15 minutes 12. That's an average of 237.1 mph.....If that was true, I shouldn't have taken the Eurostar back to Blighty :)
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    You can roll back the firmware on 705s by downloadin it to the PC and uploading it to the Garmin and renaming it as the current firmware name after deleting the old firmware. YOu lose the backlight memory thing but don't get the autopause kicking in at 17mph like I did.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • brucebanner
    brucebanner Posts: 256
    and i'm the incredible hulk. ping me.
  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    redvee wrote:
    You can roll back the firmware on 705s by downloadin it to the PC and uploading it to the Garmin and renaming it as the current firmware name after deleting the old firmware. YOu lose the backlight memory thing but don't get the autopause kicking in at 17mph like I did.

    Already reverted to 3.1. The Mac version of the software updater handily gives a 'revert to previous version' option.
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  • warthog562
    warthog562 Posts: 40
    Pfft, the top speed that nokia sports tracker has me at is 911mph.

    Keep training! Wink

    hope you weren't in a built up area as that is over the sound barrier.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    And imagine what your stopping distance would be if a child stepped into the road?

    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    In the spirit of the git that ruined my great Ghost story some time back. The wireless transmitters use the same frequency that Bluetooth devices use. So you'll get spurious signals if a nearby bluetooth transmitter is active.

    I could get 72mph on my wireless comp when sitting at my desk :D
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    In the spirit of the git that ruined my great Ghost story some time back. The wireless transmitters use the same frequency that Bluetooth devices use. So you'll get spurious signals if a nearby bluetooth transmitter is active.

    I could get 72mph on my wireless comp when sitting at my desk :D
    So it could be my phone that caused the computer to travel 0.01 miles yesterday whilst sitting on my bed.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Electronic security barriers by the doors of shops also make you ride at 56.3mph :lol:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.

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