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Bicycling

Gormy Cuss

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3. I have a very basic Schwinn on-board system

Reply to Incitatus (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 02:11 AM

Jan 2013

and once calibrated (which was NOT as easy as it seems) it records very good data on mileage, MPH, etc.

The canned calibration settings based on wheel size were off by about 15%. A few sessions of riding measured mileage were needed to calibrate it correctly. Once set, the next time to deal with it was when the batteries croaked.

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