Mats Lindh » GPS http://e-mats.org Where desperate is just another word for a regular day. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:23:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gadgetting Up The Bike http://e-mats.org/2008/07/gadgetting-up-the-bike/ http://e-mats.org/2008/07/gadgetting-up-the-bike/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:24:06 +0000 Mats http://e-mats.org/?p=140 A good day for internet shopping! After spending some time riding my bike the last months, I’ve finally decided to purchase a proper cycle computer. After riding the regular track together with Anders today, he sent me the files from the run from his Garmin Edge 305. I’ve delayed this decision for a very long time, but when I saw that the files were pure XML and that the bundled training software actually weren’t that bad, I were sold.

So off we went to the internet to search for a Garmin Edge for a fair price here in Norway. Kartbutikken turned out to have the best prices, and they have the Garmin Edge 205 for a special price right now! I do however want support for heart rate monitoring and more importantly, the rate of pedaling (cadence). This meant upgrading to at least the Garmin Edge 305, but as it turned up to be hard to get it for a fair price, I rather went all the way and got the Garmin Edge 705! It’s a bad mother.. lover, and supports everything. Being a bit of a map nerd, I’m getting excited just thinking about mapping these beautiful paths on a map. Yeeehaaaw!

I’ll be sure to bring it along when I’m doing Grenserittet in just about two weeks time (~80 km).

Bonus points for using “gadgetting” for the first time.

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