redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:54 am

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:45 pm Can someone find me a bargain on a Garmin Edge 540 solar please

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Use the code SAVE25 Dave. £374 total.

That’s the ticket. Thanks Shaff. Be prepared for a massive Garmin price drop once I’ve bought it

Can someone find me a bargain on a Garmin Edge 540 solar please

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:30 am

I'm in and think I'm going to give it a bash.

I shall look forward to the stories, book, film and family board game Dave.

Sadly won't happen now. I have to be at work w/c 2nd Sept. I'm not fast enough to get it done and be back for that.

In 2019 hiking 3000 miles from Mexico to canada up the length of the great Divide I ate well over 900 Cliff Bars, most of them the chocolate mint or white chocolate macademia variety. I think the record was 10 in one day. The combination of that plus the 200g of oatmeal and chocate and vanilla flav...

Somewhere there is a video of me eating a poo off the floor. Rest assured it was a Clif Bar we formed into a sausage shape

I loved that article! Especially the Clif Bar observation. I learnt that one the hard way

I'm in and think I'm going to give it a bash. The only show stopper for me will be the tracker as I binned my SPOT and invested in an InReach. Waiting to hear on that

My thinking is to bin the barrage and use the idea of fill/empty. So we construct tidal-filled basins which generate and store electricity as they empty.

Living by the sea and witnessing day in day out the power of the tides that are ALWAYS flowing, unlike wind, I find it amazing that we've not properly invested in harnessing this free power that surely could be done in a much less obtrusive manner.

whitestone wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:06 pm

There was discussion on Countryfile about wind farms - turns out that so far "they" haven't figured out how to recycle the blades which are typically fibreglass or carbon fibre.

Use car tyres to make massive lackey bands then the propellers can make airplanes. Job done

They always seem to have some sale on but particularly good savings on socks, including waterproof (£13) and merino (from £5), at Banana Industries at the mo. The waterproof socks look quite interesting (note subtle dig at seal skins!) and my current ones are all now leaking so will see how these p...

Disappointed was hoping for moonies

*sigh* My enthusiasm for this event is exponentially nosediving back to what it was when it was a stage race and you had to carry all your plastic litter with you... I bet I don't get an entry in any case! I got slightly tipsy last night and entered. Bet I don't either as I wrote a long rant about ...

Cool

The zoomed out view is pretty cack and I aim to fix that

Went out for the first run since Halloween at lunchtime - only 5k on pavement at a sedate pace but it felt good to be out even if it was drizzling. My plan was to just get used to running multiple times a week for a couple of weeks and then start building up the distance again I’m on the same journ...

In Reverse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:00 pm How do you activate the "Greggs" layer Dave?

I've just found a way of getting that data. It can be done

As a quick experiment I rendered the new data with the old style and it appears to have worked. Have a look at the new file gmapsupp_vmd.img which may be closer to what you are after NOTE WELL: You will need to remove the other version from your GPS/Basecamp as I forgot to change the garmin ID so th...

Should be quite easy to change the shading styles. I'll take a look when I can

Yep, dumped it on to the edge 1000's sd and it's seen straight away in basecamp. Looks totally different colours wise to the v1, is it based on a different base map? I've included a lot more Openstreetmap data (have you spotted gates ;-)) and I also incorporated elements of the Openfietsmap style t...

On a Garmin 530 create a new profile and disable all maps apart from OSM street map

Set detail to "Most" and enable "Show Contours"

I may remove the shops/pois that show in towns, let me know what you think of this

The newly updated file should fix the issue with it not showing on devices. I need to sort out instructions for using it on Edge series devices as it needs some more jiggery pokery but I've run out of time due to work so support will be scant. The file will show as "OSM street" on devices ...

I've recreated these problems my end. Fix isn't obvious so hang fire while I try and sort it

It should be smaller. I’ve only tested in Basecamp

I’ll try on my 530 tomorrow

My instructions were not clear enough. It needs to go in the Garmin Folder on the 530