Covet

[JorgeGortex]

@KelOnWheels 29162 wrote:

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION:

Do I need this? Because I kinda think I do.

http://www.twinsix.com/gear/mens-tech/the-hellcats#2

Yes you do. I don’t own any TwinSix gear, but love their attitude.

[KelOnWheels]

@JorgeGortex 29163 wrote:

Yes you do. I don’t own any TwinSix gear, but love their attitude.

Their Humpday sales are tempty and dangerous.

I already have this one: http://www.twinsix.com/gear/womens-tech/the-school-girl-w-2012

[jopamora]

Hopefully this is a better camera than a smartphone. It has GPS and the Android app store. Strava and bike computer apps make it pretty cool.

[Certifried]

I was coveting the Garmin 800. REI had a sale, $499 for the all-inclusive package with the heart-rate, speed, and cadence sensors. Cha-ching, REI, now I’m eating Top Ramen for a month

[jrenaut]

@jopamora 29184 wrote:

Hopefully this is a better camera than a smartphone. It has GPS and the Android app store. Strava and bike computer apps make it pretty cool.

That thing is pretty cool, but until they give it a 4G data plan I don’t think it’s worthwhile. At least for me, it doesn’t replace my phone, and it doesn’t replace my DSLR. But they’re heading in the right direction.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Certifried 29400 wrote:

I was coveting the Garmin 800. REI had a sale, $499 for the all-inclusive package with the heart-rate, speed, and cadence sensors. Cha-ching, REI, now I’m eating Top Ramen for a month

Hopefully you’re a member…then you just call it an “investment” in your yearly dividend. That’s how I justify my purchases at Performance…”it’s practically like a savings account, honey!”

[Certifried]

Yep, I’m a member, so um.. yeah, investment! haha Not that it matters with no wife or “serious” girlfriend right now To quote Mel Gibson, “freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedoooooooommmmmmmmm”.

I’ve been using my Droid Razr for a while now. I love its battery life, love Strava, etc. I hate that it won’t navigate for me, and I’m sick of missing my turns. I also don’t want to fork over a few hundred more to get Bluetooth 4 sensors so my phone can record everything. The sale, having another set of sensors for my second bike, made some sense.

In closing, none of the above matters. It’s an electronic toy, I’m a geek. Resistance was futile.

[Bilsko]

Ciiiii8oyee <

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what happens when your 15 mo old daughter gets ahold of your phone without you realizing.

[Certifried]

hidden GPS tracker in the stem!!

http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Spybike.jsp

um, yes please

[dasgeh]

@Certifried 29591 wrote:

hidden GPS tracker in the stem!!

http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Spybike.jsp

um, yes please

Awesome. I also foresee uses for teenagers who try to sneak out and use the bike to get around…

[vvill]

@Bilsko 29409 wrote:

Ciiiii8oyee <

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what happens when your 15 mo old daughter gets ahold of your phone without you realizing.

A few years ago my kid (when 1 yo) managed to purchase something via my xbox controller (with the TV off). I was at work and got an email confirmation. Luckily it was only a $1 purchase.

[KelOnWheels]

@vvill 29651 wrote:

A few years ago my kid (when 1 yo) managed to purchase something via my xbox controller (with the TV off). I was at work and got an email confirmation. Luckily it was only a $1 purchase.

Can I borrow your kid next time I need to DL an XBox game?

[Bilsko]

@vvill 29651 wrote:

A few years ago my kid (when 1 yo) managed to purchase something via my xbox controller (with the TV off). I was at work and got an email confirmation. Luckily it was only a $1 purchase.

Yeah and a couple months ago the closed captioning got turned on on the cable box (not the TV, mind you, the cable box). It took me a while of forum searching to discover that the only way to toggle the CC on that particular model of box meant having the box off and the hitting a 3 or 4 button combo to access the ‘secret’ menu. All told about 5 or 6 button presses.

Now I’m not saying that it was my daughter, but I don’t think anybody else would have gone to all that trouble.

Back to coveting. This post, over at November Bicycles, highlights a few of the expected items at Eurobike and Interbike.

Wireless shifters integrated into your gloves so you shift by pressing anywhere your hands happen to be on the bars.
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Oh and Real-time Strava apps. That would be great, too.

[vvill]

@Bilsko 29678 wrote:

Wireless shifters integrated into your gloves so you shift by pressing anywhere your hands happen to be on the bars.

I was thinking of something like this the other day when I was out riding! I’ve been riding with hands closer together (near the stem) a lot lately because I haven’t been shifting as much and I figured it would be the next logical step to be able to shift from anywhere.

[Bilsko]

I know that the seat stay connecting to top tube instead of seat tube is not entirely new, but I kind of like the look of these Volagi bikes – I dont care much for the carbon road, but the steel road/CX looks covet-able.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/874048428/the-viaje-bicycle-engineered-for-adventure – $600-ish for the frameset isn’t too bad, either.
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