Bike odometer
May. 21st, 2007 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrRob installed my new bike odometer this weekend (thanks, honey). I tried it out for the first time this morning. I got it partly because I was inspired by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
johnridley (hey, I'd like to prove I could roll 10,000 miles over on a bicycle, too) and partly out of geeky curiosity. I'd like to have a more accurate estimate of how much gas I'm saving and how many calories I'm burning. I made a few interesting discoveries: I've actually been biking faster than I realized. My average speed was about 13.5 miles (I thought I was somewhere between 10 and 11 miles per hour), and I got up to 19 miles per hour, fully loaded. Based on the time of my trip and average speed, I estimate that I burned about 200 calories on my ride in this morning. Go me.
Oh, andjohnridley, feel free to snabble my mood icon to this entry, if you like. It's a quotation from Lord of the Rings (like so many of my icons) and seems appropriate for a bicycling enthusiast. It's not flattering, exactly (it's about Saruman, and meant as a perjorative), but still.
Actually, Tolkien was a bicyclist. He rode his bicycle through Oxford all the time, to classes and lectures. He loathed automobiles.
johnridley (hey, I'd like to prove I could roll 10,000 miles over on a bicycle, too) and partly out of geeky curiosity. I'd like to have a more accurate estimate of how much gas I'm saving and how many calories I'm burning. I made a few interesting discoveries: I've actually been biking faster than I realized. My average speed was about 13.5 miles (I thought I was somewhere between 10 and 11 miles per hour), and I got up to 19 miles per hour, fully loaded. Based on the time of my trip and average speed, I estimate that I burned about 200 calories on my ride in this morning. Go me.Oh, and
johnridley, feel free to snabble my mood icon to this entry, if you like. It's a quotation from Lord of the Rings (like so many of my icons) and seems appropriate for a bicycling enthusiast. It's not flattering, exactly (it's about Saruman, and meant as a perjorative), but still.Actually, Tolkien was a bicyclist. He rode his bicycle through Oxford all the time, to classes and lectures. He loathed automobiles.
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Date: 2007-05-21 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-21 04:27 pm (UTC)The Sigma computer I got has so many ways to count things; it has a trip odometer plus a second odometer that's deeper down the list which is separately resettable, and could I guess be used for monthly or yearly totals, then it has an overall odometer for the bike. Then double that because it can keep all that stuff for two separate bikes.
I somehow can't imagine being at Oxford and not riding a bike. Maybe
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Date: 2007-05-21 05:41 pm (UTC)