The things people do…

Joe’s latest podcast (or SMARTcast, as they’ve titled it) came out this weekend, covering such topics as the London Cycle Show, new Italian Gels with MCT, using CHO+PRO drinks on long runs and Making the Most of your Biking. Download a copy from here or subscribe to it in the iTunes Music Store. 


The weather was fine enough at the weekend to get out on my bike for the first ride with the SRMs fitted. It was meant to be a ride for comparing the accuracy of the Polar Power system with the SRMs, but I realised just as I was about to set off that I hadn’t…

Interesting… Garmin acquires Dynastream Dynastream supplies the footpod technologies to both Polar and Nike for its Speed & Distance HRMs. Since these are a competitior to Garmin’s GPS based systems, it’ll be interesting to see how these products develop. Garmin has recently introduced a footpod for it’s Forerunner models, mainly for use on treadmills, where…

One thing it looks like I missed out of the last couple of postings about Suunto support is that it requires 10.5 or newer. I haven’t tested in on 10.6 yet, but I’m assuming any problems will be driver-related, rather than library related. The required drivers for the T6 and the PC Pod can be…

We’re making our annual pilgrimage to London to go to the TCR ’05 exhibition (http://swimcyclerun.co.uk) at Sandown Park this weekend. It gives me a chance to stock up on triathlon goodies for the coming season and to meet up with Joe (http://www.jbst.com) and some of our customers. Hopefully, I’ll also get time to visit the…

I updated my PowerTap hub today to the new firmware which supports ANT+ Sport, which meant I’m able to use it with my Garmin Edge 705. The update was fairly painless – the updater cost £75 from cyclepowermeters.com. It was simply a case of removing the cover of the PowerTap hub and pulling out the…