If I’m not mistaken Soma puts them in the right place
steerer is too looooong
theres another up a steerer thats just too short
You should have a custom made fork instead.
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I’m having Dreesens make me one right now!
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@EndpointBraden and other have mentioned the Briton Rider gpses. I’m interested in the 420 because of weed and also to follow RideWithGPS tracks for randonneuring (its huge battery life is aplus there too).
I have a lezyne gps. It is more than fine for hrm jra, but it has an incredibly flaky bluetooth interface for getting rides off of it, and getting gps tracks onto it. This isnt so bad after a ride, because strava can wait. But it is a horrible flaw when starting a Serious Brevet, which i do four or five times a year. Around 1/3rd the time when a brevet is starting, I can’t get the rwgps track started and have to resign myself to paper + odo navigation. This is a true firstworldproblem but it does make life harder when riding in the dark and losing my mind.
So, briton app reviews on the Android app store are totally dismal. But is the facility for getting rwgps tracks into it any less flaky than what i have with lezyne? Like can you reliably save rides to the device, to start whenever you like? The lezyne system forces you to set up a bluetooth connection at the time you actually want to start riding, which is too demanding for how flaky it is.
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Wrong answer! :-)
LOL, sorry! He just lives so darned close. The rack you made for me is on the first fork he made for me, though.
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Honestly, I generally use drag and drop via USB. But, the times I’ve used the app to pull from RWGPS it was fine.
The app UI/UE ain’t great. But it works.
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Cut the threads off and run it threadless!
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Always impressed that he’s still doing it
He’s pretty neat. We handle all the back and forth over details using FB Messenger. And one of the few things FB is good for is rubbing shoulders with the grand old dudes of bike building.
Amen! Just got a bunch of stuff from Charlie Kelly via FB.
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What about BRouter and OSM+ tho?
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My only nav requirement is to follow rwgps tracks. I do need something that can run for a long time in the rain and stuff and not take up space on my stem, which I have considered as ruling out phones. Im open to reasons why this is wrong tho.
Drag and drop implies the route is saved to the gps which sounds basic and yet heavenly compared to the way Lezyne do it.
Lezynes crazy solution is, the route is only saved to the phone app. Although it certainly gets pushed to the gps when you hit start ride, there’s no way of keeping it there and starting it from gps only. So the Bluetooth must be working for a ride to be startable, and it is flaky and doesn’t just work when ever.
So you’re saying that routes on the briton can be started from a button on the briton, no phone required? If so i think it meets my every spec.
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Yes. Once the route is on the unfi (via usb or app) it’s actually on the unit.
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I missed this whole conversation but really the best option is a Garmin. I only know the 1000-series units. The current one has 20 hours of battery life, plus a battery pack that plugs right in to the bottom of the mount for an additional 24 hours. Uploading routes is automated with RWGPS, just click a button.
I detest Garmin but I can’t imagine any of the new entrants have comparable offerings.
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Uh.
I don’t even need to push a button:
I just create the route and it lands on my computer under “routes”.
Admittedly the Strava routes don’t yield good turn by turn directions, but will be reflected on the map. RWGPS routes do yield turn by turn that works just fine.
The screen on the ELMNT Bolt is terrible, monochrome, etc. and as a result the map ain’t that great, but it’s there and works fine. I imagine the Roam is pretty nice in this regard.
There are other pros and cons 'tween Garmin, Wahoo, and Karoo in terms of navigation, but getting routes onto them easily is table stakes.
Sounds like a great space for some open source Crowd Supply design. Maybe something with a NXTPaper or CLEARink screen…