What's your first ever post on CC?

[Sittingduck]

Boring thread about calibrating cycling computers... First reply was from Domtyler.

Hi All

Just got myself a Specialized Globe 08 hybrid with 700c wheels
Took the computer off my old mountain bike (obviously 26") but now it's telling me that the trip to work is 4.97 miles or something when before it was 5.13. Same on the trip home... 5.96 vs the old 6.2 or whatever it was.

This got me thinking that it must be to do with the distance from the hub of the front wheel that I have the sensor placed? If this is the case (presumably it is slightly further away on the smilghtly larger wheels), how do I know that the previous placement and readings were accurate on my old mountain bike?

Effectively, if I move the sensors further down the spoke & fork towards the hub will it register I am travelling faster and further?

Thanks ​

Sittingduck, 15 Aug 2008

 

[ianrauk]

Yeh 23000+ posts, It will take me a lifetime. I've got bikes to polish you know !

You and me both mate...

 

[theclaud]

Mine was on Politics and Life, innocently asking why people were being so unpleasant to each other and was it always like that.... for which regulator took me to task for being so arrogant that a new member should come on here and try to tell people how to behave... I was stunned, but MacB explained it to me!

Wasn't me 'n' Linf, was it? Glad we didn't manage to scare you off, Archie!

 

[fossyant]

Wasn't me 'n' Linf, was it? Glad we didn't manage to scare you off, Archie!

Probably

 

[Archie_tect]

Can't remember! ... the scarring has healed now.

 

[4F]

I am disappointed that that my first post on here was not some form of anti helmet post but rather:-

Aug 2008: I started when I handed the company car back as it was costing too much in tax. 10 years on and it is even more of a joy now then it was then passing the ever increasing queues of cars.

 

[rich p]

Boring thread about calibrating cycling computers... First reply was from Domtyler.

Hi All​

​

Just got myself a Specialized Globe 08 hybrid with 700c wheels ​

Took the computer off my old mountain bike (obviously 26") but now it's telling me that the trip to work is 4.97 miles or something when before it was 5.13. Same on the trip home... 5.96 vs the old 6.2 or whatever it was.​

​

This got me thinking that it must be to do with the distance from the hub of the front wheel that I have the sensor placed? If this is the case (presumably it is slightly further away on the smilghtly larger wheels), how do I know that the previous placement and readings were accurate on my old mountain bike?​

​

Effectively, if I move the sensors further down the spoke & fork towards the hub will it register I am travelling faster and further?​

​

Thanks ​

Sittingduck, 15 Aug 2008

Don't worry Ducky, you're still as rivetting as ever

 

[Shaun]

Just a point of note on the searching - I've had to limit the number of results it brings back at the moment, but I'll expand it once we get on the new server, hopefully making for speedier travel back through time ...

 

[User169]

....but then I'm in a sentimental mood...

Well in that case I'll quote my favourite post in which I called you a "weak, whining, slimy column of trembling flesh barely fit for doner meat"!

 

[theclaud]

Well in that case I'll quote my favourite post in which I called you a "weak, whining, slimy column of trembling flesh barely fit for doner meat"!

 

[CopperCyclist]

Went back through mine to find that my first post, in Feb 2011 was a post singing the praise of drop bars having recently been converted to them by my new (then) Boardman CX

 

[gbb]

8th July 2007...
Just introducing myself. I can't remember the chronology, but as C+ disappeared i seem to remember going to BR, hated it in there and came here.
Mid 2007, had this site just got off the ground ?

'Another new member here
I assume this forum has been around a while...hello to all you original members, hello again to some of you's from you know where. '

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[GaryA]

Cant recall, but doubtless something that upset the drones...

 

[clarion]

In Tea? Part 1:

Tea? Aye, thanks.

I'll leave the battenburg, if you don't mind.

Back on 24 March 2008. Second post was of my (now TGL's) fixed.