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[bike] First ride of the season
Mar. 12th, 2006 08:54 amWent out with a couple of people for Lexington and Horn Pond in Woburn. It was perhaps a tad chilly, but still worth it. Worse was the terrible headwind all the way up the bike path. And the route was a little hillier than I remembered. Still, it was a straightforward and somewhat scenic 20-mile jaunt. "Start small." Route map here.
Also tried this with the handlebar-mounted GPS. It was marginally useful though not necessarily the greatest thing since sliced bread. One issue is that it doesn't know about the bike path; another is that its internal compass doesn't work unless it's actually horizontal. In the end, though, while you're moving you can't actually look at the thing to see where you are without stopping thinking about biking, so the most useful feature is it saying how far it is to the next turn. The right strategy might be to just carry it in a bag so we can stop and figure out where we are and where we've been and otherwise navigate the same way we always have.
Also tried this with the handlebar-mounted GPS. It was marginally useful though not necessarily the greatest thing since sliced bread. One issue is that it doesn't know about the bike path; another is that its internal compass doesn't work unless it's actually horizontal. In the end, though, while you're moving you can't actually look at the thing to see where you are without stopping thinking about biking, so the most useful feature is it saying how far it is to the next turn. The right strategy might be to just carry it in a bag so we can stop and figure out where we are and where we've been and otherwise navigate the same way we always have.
