Archive for the ‘mountain biking’ Category.
10th March 2008, 07:21 pm
I’ve had NST (Nokia Sports Tracker) installed for a while now and I’ve used it a couple of times when I remembered, this was, unfortunately half way round a walk so I couldn’t track where I’d been 
Needed another time to test it, a bike ride would work and luckily we had one planned for the Saturday just gone! Another trip over to Watergrove Reservoir sorted that out. I remembered before setting off, to get the sat nav locked onto our location and fired up NST. The software itself is so simple to use and provides a wealth of information about the journey you’ve been on. Obviously using the in-built GPS means that the battery life gets sapped pretty quickly, couple with the fact the missus had been using it the day before as well meant it didn’t have long to live.
Luckily it held out for three quarters of the day before powering itself off. I’d not used nst when the battery has died before but it handled it well, it reported that it had crashed upon the next reload but the full details of what we had done was still there just 1 hour short I’ve uploaded the days activities and you should be able to view it here.
NST has pre-defined setup for Walking, Cycling, Running, Skiing and 2 other custom activities. It supports things like Live sharing where you can constantly update your progress online, Auto pause when your speed drops below certain levels speed averaging. If you have GPS enabled Nokia phone then I highly suggest downloading and installing this - well unless your a bit of a fatty 
25th September 2007, 06:55 pm
Well we had another outing planned for Saturday just gone, a 12mile ride supposedly taking around 2-4 hours so we expected it take about 3, Bzzt, wrong!
Giles from work found the route on the site he bought his bike from, sounded like a good route with some decent technical downhills involved which we were still craving from two weeks before. So off we headed just before 9am to lovely yorkshireeeeeeee. Setting off for the ride at about 11am after a nice heary breakfast consisting of an egg roll - with salad! We had 4 of us on this ride compared to last time when we ended up with only 2, we planned to keep it at 4 for the duration this time
Had a good start to the ride where we had a few semi-decent downhills, or sloped hills with a nice technical section leading to some steps to a main road. This is where it all went wrong, instead of turning right through a gate which we couldn’t see, we headed straight over and slightly right through a gate that we could see. The further we went down this trail, the more we realised we’d royally messed up. After we’d done just over the 12 miles we were supposed to do and still couldn’t find the way to where we needed to be we decided to ask and give in We got told that we’d crossed 3 valeys before stopping, so we had to head back much to Stu’s disappointment. A relatively leisurely cycle most of the way back and once again we decided to change our course and head another way - this led to some quite good technical downhills which led on to a nice pub for a quick drink before cycling the last 3 miles, up hill, back to the cars.
This is just one of the many views we had whilst up there.
28th June 2007, 08:32 pm
So here they are. Only been out on them once since getting them fitted at this point and it just so happened to have been raining all day, so half an hour later and one muddy path and this was the result.
