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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Garmin Edge 830 elevation issues
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 16:45:26 -0400
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On 8/6/2024 4:17 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 8/6/2024 3:14 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 8/6/2024 2:23 AM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:
>>> Being retired, I don't have a need to ride in the wet anymore and some
>>> reasons to avoid it.  But I did a lot of riding in the rain on my
>>> commute and during vacations.
>>>
>>> <https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/technik/komponenten/navi/ 
>>> img-5685.jpeg>
>>> <https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/technik/komponenten/navi/ 
>>> IMG_1405.jpeg>
>>> The latter, newer photo from spring 2011 was taken here, btw.
>>> <https://www.google.de/maps/ 
>>> @43.3632593,2.6300401,3a,79.5y,264h,76.03t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5! 
>>> 1sz3iFFh4NezN4f2JhbT2bnA!2e0!5s20110301T000000!7i13312!8i6656? 
>>> coh=205409&entry=ttu
>>> Wasn't raining, that day. :-)
>> In the early 1990s we spent nearly a month touring Ireland by bicycle. 
>> It was the wettest experience of my life.
>>
>> Also, in the early 2000s, we rode coast to coast, Atlantic to Pacific. 
>> For the first two weeks it rained on us every day.
>>
>> It sort of puzzles me that most people find rain so uncomfortable. 
>> It's as if we evolved on a planet where rain didn't happen.
>>
> 
> Cyclist's secret: Humans are drip dry!

True. But I'm miserable while dripping.

I took part in a group hike this morning. Not very hot, but the humidity 
was such that I was literally dripping, very uncomfortably, at the end, 
just as I was at the end of yesterday's club ride.

At least on a bike, there's relative air motion.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski