Dreadhead

Jeff you should be able to put it together yourself I would think. Jealous but I will have my bike in Barbados and be there for 10 days a week before before so I should be biked out.

I fell 3km short of the metric century because I ran out of time but had a nice time meeting up with Ben and Jeff. Was very nice to be out on the bike for 4 hours

See you guys then.

9 am work to meet at the usual spot? We can then roll out for a bit and turn around to get me back on time or we can do a climbing loop if we prefer.

Jeff what time do you want to meet? I will just do what miles I can before hand as I am not feeling great right now and may be getting a slight cold.

What time? I am off the hook all morning but would like to be home by 11:30 so finish up the loop around 1015 or 1030. I was thinking a long ride on the trail anyway so that works out.

Sorry Jeff. You riding tomorrow? I could ride out to you and do a loop and then ride home.

I am busy with Ben's birthday tomorrow but I am probably available on Sunday

Yeah I'm going to keep on with what the Quarq and I'm thinking about maybe investing in a Stages powermeter for my "moving stuff around" goals instead. I can get it pretty cheap and while not as accurate and portable (because it doesn't move between shimano and sram etc) it's pretty close. Edit: Or I'll do the most sensible thing and just stick with what I have and use the iBike and Quarq until the Garmin is sorted out a bit better or Brim Brothers comes out with a Look compatible cleat meter.

Cool. Sorry that you're suffering with your wrist. Glad you got the Calfee dialed in. I am suffering second thoughts about the Vectors. I really want them for absolutely no good reason.

Cool Jeff. What day? I am thinking of just doing a metric on the W&OD on Sunday which is boring.

Looking great Ben. As Dan points out though as soon as either you or Jeff start passing me I will file a UCI complaint and get your Strava account suspended

Finally got my Suunto back and since I am using it as a everyday watch I am glad I went with the Sapphire with the stainless bezel. I am hard on watches. I have already touched up the bezel with Scotch Brite.

Ben you can borrow my bike bag and ship it FedEx too.

Big sale on Suunto Ambit 2 of all colors and types. http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/09/massive-exclusive-training.html I love mine. Thinking of getting one for my wife.

Happy birthday!

Happy belated birthday!

I did this and just emailed the shop to let them know I had changed my mind on the replacement and I just wanted my money back. We'll see how it works out. If it ends up that my shop is left holding the bag I'll then purchase them and make do. For sure I understand why it was that way my issue is that they design it so that where the gap is also has a washer near it.

So when I was dropping my Vectors off I was showing the shop what happened and I discovered that for 100% certain I'm not responsible. The issue was that just inside the threads the shaft of the pedal gets a bit smaller so what happened is that their own Garmin provided washer dropped down on this section and then tightened on out of true and applied pressure unevenly and shit broke. I really should just take my money and run but I want pedal based power.

Nate, I'm still hopeful that they'll work great once installed right (which is other people's experience) that said I'm hoping that long term they switch to steel or titanium for the pods (and send free replacements). They need something with some strength and ductility in that area not brittle ass aluminum. It's just unacceptable that the pod failed rather than force the washers to align! That or they need to send 4 pods with the pedals. They also need to include a cheap claw foot adapter with the pedals. I'm going to return them to the shop today and let them deal with Garmin. I will still take them as I said I would but I'm less than thrilled right now that's for sure. Very glad I didn't end up selling the Quarq as I'll just keep it as a backup at this point. Glad you had a good commute. I had a great ride out of work yesterday and I'll be riding again tomorrow.

So I looked at the pod a bit more today and it was definitely the washers. The Look pedal washer has a larger diameter hole than the garmin one and the garmin one settled unevenly inside the look one and made the loading on the pod uneven and cracked it. The proof is in the fact that the face of the pod is deformed down into the crack and I also observed that the pod looked like it was misaligned relative to the crank. I guess they could argue it was my fault but I was using washers as ordered. My shop has a second set of them on order but I'm not going to ask them to give up revenue so I can get it faster (not that that would be unreasonable) so hopefully Garmin steps up and gets me things faster than two weeks or I guess if my shop wants to give me the replacements then so be it. I don't know when the second set are supposed to arrive. Overall though I'm also not impressed with the pod arrangment as not only did it snap but on both sides they nicked my carbon cranksets when they over-rotated. How hard would it be to include a small piece of rubber to make sure you align it right with the crankset?

Well the right pod my vector snapped in half upon installation (with a torque wrench) after I tried to align the pods. The only thing I can think of is that I was using one of their washers and one that was from my previous look pedals and that somehow messed it up. They better send me a free replacement fast.

Done. Go Karen!

Happy Birthday!

Quarq moved to the Giant and crow foot adapter purchased. All ready for my new toys. Excited.