ZorgusPrime

there's a whole range of them, this here is it's little (or should that be bigger) brother the Merida Ninety-Six 5000-D (at least that's what I think it's going to be called)ZorgusPrime2008-05-26 12:36:46

There are a lot of posts about lights on the hub: https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=22510&KW=lights https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=21690&KW=lights https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=12916&KW=lights was just wanting to get upto speed on what the decisions were...ZorgusPrime2008-05-26 12:20:34

Sell your Harley and get a proper bike, id say.

Merida Ninety-Six (aka Merida Beijing) It weighs as much as my waterbottle... http://atomicbike.co.uk/bikes/the-merida-ninety-six/merida-ninety-six-team-d.html

There's also the Merida Juliet 900-D that should be in that price range. It's one of those bikes that they reverse engineered from a broomstick, so it will have all the right bits & dimensions for the women folk.

I did the Pedal-Power wacky weekend, and it was pretty usefull then.

:-) okay, maybe not the best example. But I have used it (for distance and time planning especially) to climb Table mountain + Lions head, and for going round places i don't know like Grabouw.

The Garmap maps are quite good on-road, the Tracks4Africa are quite good off-road, but neither can route betwen on-road and off-road (ie from my house round Jonkershoek and back) so that's where I filled in the gap.

I've gone and done my own AutoRoutable Topo map of Stellenbosch too

Garmap Southern Africa 2008

Firstly the Edge705 uses the same maps as (almost) any other Garmin mapping device (nuvi, streetpilot, eTrek, Zumo etc.), so there is no difference there. Secondly the Edge705 uses the same (+/-) auto-routing system to plan routes, and get you to your destination. So far let's call it about equal, the main difference's are as follows: + Edge has heart rate, cadence, ANT+ wireless connectivity, altimeter and all the cycling specific features - Edge uses beeps in place of voice directions (for turns etc) - Edge does VIA points, but it's has to be done using Mapsource Conclusion: This is a cycling computer, that can also easily navigate you to the start of the race. You're not going to be able to mount this on your front window to impress your friends, but it will get you to your destination.

FYI - A feature I discovered this weeekend: You can use your Edge 705 to navigate TO the race venue !

I'm one of those people who read the manual, so I'm grounded for "at least three hours before you begin using it"

Just recieved delivery of the first available Edge 705 bundle today. Got it from www.EasyGIS.co.za

cool I've got a Merida + 2kg of Lourensford stuck on the bottom. May even bring my car (a blue one) as I'm feeling G@t^0L of that piece of tar by Lanzerac

still on for 08h30 ? I might make a guest appearance, but don't know who any of you are....

Legend, How far and fast (ie. route and h.rate ? )

Looks like the Panorama hiking trail. Legend, where in Jonkershoek is this ? ZorgusPrime2008-04-02 15:15:01