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Scotty675

Cable thief
That’s timing you posted that. For once in my life I looked up the manual you posted. I can confirm no spacer as I removed the chainring.
 
Calvin27

Calvin27

Eats Squid
www.velogear.com.au

Giro Peloton Cycling Cap

Giro Peleton Cycling Cap now available! Huge range of brand new Giro and other big brand cycling clothing and bike shoes now available online at www.velogear.com.au. Cycling warehouse sale at up to 80% off!
www.velogear.com.au www.velogear.com.au

I swear this was $500k last week!
 
Jim Junkie

Jim Junkie

Used to sell drugs, now he just takes them
Garmin VivoActive 3 is on runout around the place due to the release of the 4, half price from Garmin:
buy.garmin.com

Garmin vívoactive® 3 | Smartwatch with GPS

The vívoactive® 3 GPS smartwatch has built-in sports apps, Garmin Pay™ contactless payments & wrist-based heart rate monitoring.
buy.garmin.com buy.garmin.com

NFC, GPS, HRM and all the other bits for $250 aint bad.
 
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HamboCairns

Thanks for all the bananas
Jim Junkie said:
NFC, GPS, HRM and all the other bits for $250 aint bad.
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I have an Apple Watch and while it integrates well with the iPhone, I don't think it's particularly motivational on the fitness stats side of things. I actually miss my Fitbit with better sleep and active zone tracking.
 
Jim Junkie

Jim Junkie

Used to sell drugs, now he just takes them
HamboCairns said:
I have an Apple Watch and while it integrates well with the iPhone, I don't think it's particularly motivational on the fitness stats side of things. I actually miss my Fitbit with better sleep and active zone tracking.
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Well, I came across the Garmin as my wife was on the hunt for a proper activity watch to give her some feedback on her running, swimming and general activity. She'd been using a 7 or so year old fitbit we had sitting around to see if she liked the idea before that, but the battery was pretty cooked and it was a really basic thing (just steps really).

One thing that has become very apparenty though is that Fitbit walks all over Garmin in the motivational / interaction thing. Garmin definitely has the hardware side, but just doesn't hold a candle to how she was using the fitbit, which is dissapointing. Just the notifications of getting sleep right, feedback on additional background activity, the way the app displays and so on seem to just work a lot better for her.

I tend to use Strava instead of the Garmin app, but did try just using Garmin for 6 months or so when Strava did it's whole 'premium for segments' only thing. It's just not the same, there's definitely something missing there on the interaction side. All the data is there, but just not as engaging. I ended up back on Strava and find it much more motivating.

So if you're looking at Garmin to fix the motiviational side of things, I'd look elsewhere, unless you plan to tie it in with something else.
 
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