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Ibike on week long ride suggestions

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:16 am
by klaus
I have a question or suggestion for future developments.
I plan a self supported bike ride of about 7 day's with 6-10hours of bike every day.
I would really love to store all that data in the I ibike and record it.

From what I understand I will be well above the limit of the device. Any suggestions on how to store that data.

Taking the laptop is out of question (I would have to carry it)
I could take the transfer cable and the drivers/soft on an USB key. But going through the whole pain to setup that on a foreign PC just to download the file seems to bee too much trouble for me.

What I would really like is an easy way where the ibike behaves like a storage unit where you can just get the files in an easy way. I could then do that from any PC or my smartphone and carry a limited amount of extra gear.
Web upload or other from the USB could be another neat alternative

Any suggestions are welcome

Re: Ibike on week long ride suggestions

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:22 am
by Site_Admin
You can get 50 hours out of it at 5-second intervals, but you're going to break that record. What about taking your cable and a cd with the software on it, and doing one download dump midway through?

Re: Ibike on week long ride suggestions

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:33 pm
by klaus
That is probably what I will do. Copy the software and driver on my smartphone and take the cable with me.

Only need to find a PC after 2-3 day's where I can install the software and download (I may have 1-2 day to find that PC)

Again it would be nice if there was an easy way to copy the files like from any other USB storage device

Re: Ibike on week long ride suggestions

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:24 am
by etuaz
Don't forget to carry at least one spare battery. I was on a supported multi-day ride and the power numbers on day 4 got corrupt due to a weak battery. I had a spare battery in camp and everything worked great after I put it in, though I still had unusable data from day 4. I'll carry a spare in my saddle bag next time.

Re: Ibike on week long ride suggestions

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:43 am
by Site_Admin
You might yet get some decent data out of some of that ride, via editing in different programs, but yeah, the overall ride might be a wash.

We've improved battery life a ton since going wireless...