Says it all!Monday, 2 April 2012
Cycling shoes giving you sore feet? Try moving your cleats a little...
Got some new Shimano R191 SPD-S road shoes recently. Same size as my old Shimanos and fitted the SPD-R cleats in what I thought was the same position. Took a short ride and the outside of both feet started to hurt. Not alot but enough to irritate. Tried a couple more short rides, same thing. Having just spent £120 on new shoes I was getting a little pissed off, so I googled a little and saw a few suggestions to move the shoes closer to the crank. Measured current position and there was a 5 - 6 mm gap between the shoe and the crank. Reset cleats as far 'out' as possible (they moved 2 - 3 mm out). Remeasured and clearance between show and crank now more like 3 mm. Went out for a 60+ km ride; no foot pain. So, getting the cleat position right can make a real distance to your comfort. By the way the R191's are great shoes. Good fit, good ventilation, stiff sole and light. And the colour matches by Sunday bike.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Hackintosh - the iPC
Just built a new machine to run Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Hardware:
Gigabyte SKT-1366 GA-X58A-UDR3
Intel i7-950 CPU
Corsair 4GB 1333MHz CL9 DDR3
ASUS 1GB GeForce 9500GT PCI-E
Corsair TX series, 750 Watt PSU
Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB HDD
LiteOn IHAS224-19 DVD-RW
Samsung XL2370 23 inch LED Monitor
Software:
Mac OS X 10.6.x Retail
iBOOT + MultiBeast
Procedure:
Assemble the hardware. Set up BIOS and install OS per tonymacx86 guidance. That's it.
Simples!
Monday, 31 May 2010
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Spring Fever
Almost two week's of fine weather and already lulled into the false sense that this will go on forever. Sunset chimed in at 20.01 this evening, and we've still got two months to the Solstice. Can almost smell the summer. Bring it on!
Goodbye gaga Garmin
After 16 months of faultless service my faithful Forerunner 305 is no more. It had a short but active life and will be remembered fondly. Whilst it's rather shocking that it should die so young, and especially so as this was within a month of the end of the warranty period, for the not inconsiderable but nevertheless reasonable sum of £50 the nice man at Garmin will take it to its final place of rest and send me a new one at cost, saving me £85. Can't really argue to much with that.So, if your Gamin goes gaga, all is not lost; get a new one from Garmin and sod the cost.
:-)
Techie post script: If your Garmin no longer gets a fix on satellites, navigate to the About Forerunner screen and check the GPS Chipset version. If is says 'GPS: 0.00' best get on the phone 'cause this ones not for fixing.
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