18.4. ajettiin kauden ensimmäiset 200 km brevetit. Espoosta starttasi 50 ajajaa ja Oulusta 15. Seuraava tapahtuma on 2.5. ajettava 300 km brevetti. Lisää kalenterissa.
Kirjoittajan arkistot:mkpaa
Pitkänmatkanpyöräilyn olosuhteiden kehitys
Tavarafillari -blogi kirjoitti pyöräilyn edistämisestä.
… pyöräilyä edistetään pääasiassa kolmella tasolla: teknologisella kehityksellä, puhumalla pyöräilystä ja parantamalla pyöräilyinfraa. Nämä kaikki liittyvät toisiinsa, eivätkä sulje toisiaan pois.
Mietin omalla noin 10 vuoden pyöräilykokemuksella mitä nämä ovat merkinneet omalla kohdallani. Pyöräily oli minulle aluksi jossain määrin salatiedettä ja sen imago oli kehittynyt lähinnä autoistuvassa Suomessa, jossa pyöräilyä ei pidetty ainakaan liikenteenä. Ajatus pyörästä kulkuneuvona oli, ja on monille edelleen, vieras. Mitä edellä mainitut kolme kohtaa sitten ovat kehittyneet omana pyöräilyaikanani ja pidemmälläkin aikavälillä.
Paris-Brest-Paris 2015 checklist
16.-20.8.2015 ajetaan jälleen Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 km brevetti. Sivuilta löytyvä mainoslehtinen kertoo tärkeimmät ohjeet osallistumista suunnitteleville.
Ennakkoilmoittautuminen alkaa eri päivinä riippuen siitä mikä oli pisin kaudella 2014 ajamasi ACP brevet.
- 1000 km brevet -> ilmoittautuminen alkaa 26.4.2015
- 600 km brevet -> ilmoittautuminen alkaa 3.5.2015
- 400 km brevet -> ilmoittautuminen alkaa 10.5.2015
- 300 km brevet -> ilmoittautuminen alkaa 17.5.2015
- 200 km brevet -> ilmoittautuminen alkaa 24.5.2015
- Yleinen ilmoittautuminen alkaa 31.5.2015
Ennakkoilmoittautumisen lisäksi pitää vahvistaa ilmoittautuminen viimeistään 23.6.2015, jonka jälkeen jäljellä olevat paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä.
Ilmoittautumisen voi vahvistaa 31.5. alkaen ilmoittamalla homologation-numerot keväällä ajetuilta 200, 300, 400 ja 600 km breveteiltä. Suomen 600 km brevettien deadline on 7.6. eli sen jälkeen ACP-yhteyshenkilö Paavo Nurminen ilmoittaa homologation-numerot saatuaan kortit postitse.
Ilmoittautuminen sisältää esimerkiksi brevet-kortin, mitalin, juomapullon, heijastinliivin ja dvd:n. Tarkempi lista on mainoslehtisessä. Ajopaita pitää tilata erikseen ilmoittautumisen yhteydessä.
Lähtöajat ja -ryhmät
Sunnuntai 16.8.
- Kello 16-17 normaalit pyörät 80 tunnin ryhmä
- Kello 17:15 erikoispyörät 90 tunnin ryhmä
- Kello 17:30-20:00 normaalit pyörät 90 tunnin ryhmä
Maanantai 17.8
- Kello 4:50 erikoispyörät 84 tunnin ryhmä
- Kello 5-5:15 normaalit pyörät 84 tunnin ryhmä
Lähdöt tapahtumat noin 15 minuutin välein ja noin 200-300 ajajan ryhmissä.
Kontrollit
Kontrolleilla on myynnissä ruokaa ja todennäköisesti useimmilla on myös pyöräkorjaamo ja varaosia myynnissä. Kannattaa varata käteistä mukaan. Kaikkeen kannattaa varautua jonottamaan.
Kontrolleilla voi nukkua ja huopa&herätys maksaa tyypillisesti pari euroa. Improvisoitujakin nukkumispaikkoja on, mutta helpoimmalla pääsee näissä virallisissa dormeissa.
Reitti
Reitti on merkitty nuolilla ennen risteystä, risteyksessä ja risteyksen jälkeen. Nuolet Pariisiin ja Brestiin mentäessä ovat eri värillä. Lisäksi joissakin paikoissa on X-kyltit kertomaan väärästä suunnasta. Kyltteihin ei kannata sokeasti luottaa eli tielista ja mahdollinen navigaattori on hyvä olla mukana.
Kaupungeissa ja kylissä on yleensä myös väkeä risteyksissä ohjaamassa pyöräilijöitä oikeaan suuntaan.
Reitillä on hyvin vähän kauppoja tai Suomesta tuttuja huoltoasemia, mutta paikallisten pitämiä ruokapisteitä ja jopa majoituspaikkoja on tarjolla ympäri vuorokauden.
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Talvipäivänseisaus 2014 tulokset
Talvipäivänseisaus 2014 |
Lähtö |
Maali |
Matka |
Mikko Mäkipää | Espoo | Tampere | 288 |
Samuli Mäkinen | Espoo | Tampere | 288 |
Ilkka Hyvärinen | Järvenpää | Tampere | 231 |
Jaakko Valaskivi | Pasila | Tampere | 217 |
Pekka Kauranen | Pasila | Tampere | 217 |
Kaj Rehnman | Pasila | Tampere | 217 |
Matti Sievänen | Tampere | Tampere | 302 |
Timo Ikonen | Tampere | Tampere | 302 |
Esa Salonen | Tampere | Tampere | 302 |
Pasi Pekkanen | Tampere | Tampere | 302 |
Antti Nissinen | Tampere | Tampere | 302 |
J-P Stenvall | Tammisaari | Tampere | 312 |
Petri Latva-Rasku | Tampere | Tampere | 262 |
Saku Korhonen | Äänekoski | Tampere | 195 |
Raimo Ruokonen | Tampere | Tampere | 262 |
Jukka Ojala | Tampere | Tampere | 260 |
Timo Niemi | Helsinki | Tampere | 177 |
Jan Kruse | Tampere | Tampere | 301 |
Antti Pietilä | Helsinki | Tampere | 205 |
Mikko Vulli | Tampere | Tampere | 156 |
Jorma Raitanen | Äänekoski | Tampere | 195 |
Ari Kakko | Oulu | Oulu | 222 |
Antti Pietilä | Oulu | Oulu | 222 |
Tommi Kuha | Oulu | Oulu | 222 |
Esa Kiviharju | Oulu | Oulu | 270 |
Lisäykset ja korjaukset mikko.makipaa@yahoo.com
Talvipäivänseisaus 2013 tulokset
Talvipäivänseisaus 2013 |
Lähtö |
Maali |
Matka |
Mikko Mäkipää | Espoo | Tampere | 278 |
Jan Kruse | Tampere | Tampere | 278 |
Ilkka Hyvärinen | Järvenpää | Tampere | 199 |
Matti Sievänen | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
Petri Latva-Rasku | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
Esa Salonen | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
Raimo Ruokonen | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
Timo Ikonen | Kangasala | Tampere | 166 |
Pasi Pekkanen | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
Heidi Tanskanen | Tampere | Tampere | 174 |
J-P Stenvall | Tammisaari | Tampere | 296 |
Kati Jokio | Espoo | Tampere | 205 |
Peter Helenius | Espoo | Tampere | 205 |
Jorma Raitanen | Uurainen | Tampere | 223 |
Lisäykset ja korjaukset mikko.makipaa@yahoo.com
Talvipäivänseisaus-pyöräily 2014
Tiedote (14.12.2014), vapaa julkaistavaksi
Talvipäivänseisaus-pyöräily kokoaa jälleen yhteen pyöräilyn harrastajia ympäri Suomea. Toista kertaa ajettavassa tapahtumassa ajajat lähtevät liikkeelle launtaina 20.12. auringon laskiessa mistä haluavat ja ajavat maaliin, Tampereelle Hotelli Ilvekseen tai Ouluun Teboil Kaakkurinhoviin, ennen auringonnousua sunnuntaina 21.12.
Mukaan on ilmoittautunut yhteensä kolmisen kymmentä pyöräilijää. Osallistujat ajavat minimissään 150 km matkan ja viimeisen kahden tunnin aikana ennen auringonnousua pitää ajaa vähintään 15 km. Samalla käydään leikkimielinen kilpailu siitä kuka ajaa pisimmän matkan pisimpänä yönä.
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Lisätietoja Mikko Mäkipää, 0505822386
Talvipäivänseisaus ilmoittautuminen (Tampere) on avattu
Ilmoittautuminen tällä lomakkeella viimeistään 17.12.2014.
Talvipäivänseisaus mainosvideo Youtubessa.
2015 ACP-kalenteri
2015 vuoden brevettien deadlinet on lisätty kalenteriin. Kaikki maailman brevetit löytyy ACP:n omasta kalenterista.
Anatomy of a Garmin problem
During this year’s Transcontinental race over 50% riders [citation needed] used Garmin navigators for finding their way. Also it is fair to say everyone had some problems with their navigation. Most of the problems were just imcompetence, poor planning, lag of attention or wrong decisions. Navigating through Europe on your own is not easy task for anyone. The problems do however underline two things.
One. There is no real option for Garmin right now so we are stuck with it. I can ride by street signs, paper maps or cue sheets, but I’d be riding on bigger roads and it is significantly slower. Mobile phone navigation apps are trash because of user interface and battery life issues. And the competition. Ugh. Magellan/Mio go home and see your next year.
Two. Even the best in the market is unsuitable for long distance/audax riding. While it is obviously possible to find my way with Garmin, it should not be dangerous, distracting and complicated.
I use Garmin Edge 810 for navigation. Polar CS600 was there because Edge is unsuitable for tracking distance and heart rate.
So lets get started. I will repeat this issue again later! Why on earth would I want the device to power off when charging ends? To keep my Garmin juiced up I need to charge it. Obvious way to charge it is dynamo. When I slow down the dynamo will not give enough current so charging stops. What does Garmin do? It gives me 15 seconds to click ”No” or it powers off. And why would a cyclist slow down? In uphills, red lights, intersections and cities where they… navigate. During this year’s Transcontinental I restarted my Edge 810 more than 100 times. Mostly it didn’t matter, but still it adds up so that I spent maybe an hour waiting for Garmin to catch up. It is dangerous and distracting to play with Garmin in traffic. But why don’t I use power bank or something else for charging as dynamo doesn’t work properly? Well. I could, but why the heck should I? This is a problem caused by Garmin’s retarded design choice that they can fix with a simple firmware upgrade. No warnings. Please?
The device is a navigator, but could it please stop navigating? Most of us spent hours or even days planning our route. I absolutely don’t want the navigator to try to guess where I want to go. Just show to route and shut up. How about a simple way to turn off ”navigation” and turn-by-turn instructions? In brevet cycling it might be even against the rules to leave the route. Just show the planned route! Well. There is a way to do this. Stop course and choose a new one. The old course will stay on the map in colour I chose. However I will lose two important features. Upcoming elevation profile and distance to destination. After I start the new exercise and load the new course I’ll just have to wait for the blessing of ”Route calculation error”. After that the device surprisingly work’s as I wanted it in the 1st place. Maybe replace ”lap” button with ”inject route calculation error” button? That would be a lot more useful. And for no obvious reason loading a course also overrides activity profile’s navigation preferences to ”cycling” which in most cases means 200 km of u-turning. I could keep going forever about this issue. There are a few ways, other than waiting for ”route calculation error”, that sometimes work. Turn gps off before loading a new course and turn gps back on. However you’ll have to turn gps off every time you continue exercise after reboot. Remember the device usually powers off when I slow down. And there is the other way. I love this one. Load both OSM and City navigator maps to memory card and set both enabled. Then you’ll have the turn-by-turn instructions, but no turn-by-turn alerts. That should be the best option really and very obvious to figure out. Right? What do you think?
Then there are obvious software bugs, usually related to navigating. For example my route from Mont Lovcen to Greece was very prone to these errors. It was a bit ”too long”, about 550 km. The problem was that when starting the device it would simply power off again while loading maps. Fix was to power off, remove memory card, power on, continue exercise, end exercise, power off, insert memory card, power on, load course, start exercise and continue business as usual. Maybe 30-40 times during Transcontinental. In uphills, in downhills, in cities, in traffic, in the middle of the night, sometimes even when it was raining. I always did this while riding. Only, not ”business as usual”, issue was how to hold the memory card without dropping it while clicking through the menus. The same with the hard reset I had to do. Finally the grand annoyance was that while I had set Garmin to save activities on memory card it obviously didn’t work then memory card was in my hand. So the hard reset wiped out the activities that were saved during these map problems. Meaning I lost about 1000 km worth of activities when I finally had to do the hard reset after the device wouldn’t turn on at all. For the record I was using routes planned in www.gpsies.com, downloaded as .gpx and added to Garmin via NewFiles folder. Map source was www.openfietsmap.nl/downloads/europe.
Why on earth would I want the device to power off when charging ends? To keep my Garmin juiced up I need to charge it. Obvious way to charge it is dynamo. When I slow down the dynamo will not give enough current so charging stops. What does Garmin do? It gives me 15 seconds to click ”No” or it powers off. And why would a cyclist slow down? In uphills, red lights, intersections and cities where they… navigate. During this year’s Transcontinental I restarted my Edge 810 over 100 times. Mostly it didn’t matter, but still it adds up so that I spent maybe an hour waiting for Garmin to catch up. It is dangerous and distracting to play with Garmin in traffic. But why don’t I use power bank or something else for charging as dynamo doesn’t work properly? Well. I could, but why the heck should I? This is a problem caused by Garmin’s retarded design choice that they can fix with a simple firmware upgrade. No warnings. Please?
Another rather strange ”warning” Edge 810 has is the ”course found” alert. Well, thanks. Can we continue? This is mostly a issue in roundabouts where the planned and actual route slightly differ. There are always minor differences in gps fix/map source/planned route. What happens is in the middle of intersection/roundabout I get ”course found” alert and screen basically jams for 5-10 seconds. If I wasn’t sure where to continue I’ll just have to pick something, and fast, if there happens to be other traffic in the roundabout. That I have found a course is pretty much secondary to where I should be going. Usually not a problem, but still maybe 20-30 cases during Transcontinental. This is obviously a software/design issue.
My last, not so important, problem in current design is related to starting/stopping the device. When I continue it is damn sure I’ve moved to wherever I am. In easiest case you could add a direct line from wherever I stopped to wherever you continued. And if you were and still are on route it would be a good guess you’ve actually travelled the route. That way I’d have better idea of distance travelled and average speed for later use. If you are sportsing with your sports computer you might prefer the current way.
And a bonus. A physical ”lap” button in Edge Touring? Seriously? Riding 10kkm+ per year for last 10 years I’ve never considered pressing it in any device I’ve had. Switch it to ”day button”. That would tell you what day it is. That would be a lot more useful. You have maybe hundred options for data fields, but no weekday or date. I can obviously check it from my cell phone, or simply try to remember it, but easier if you just add it to the available data fields. I think I actually had to check it 3 times during Transcontinental.
Garmin also provides a mobile phone app that connects to latest devices. App is nowadays quite good. A while ago it, and the website too, failed to upload routes longer than approx 300 km and stopped syncing, but that bug is gone. There are however some odd things about the app. Maybe the most obvious is location management. Edge locations are places you can pin point on map and then navigate to. Why can’t I choose the locations, or courses, and start activity/navigation from the app directly? Phone user interface is thousand times more suitable for that than Edge’s. Now I can’t even add new locations from the app. Other odd things is that I can’t add gpx files to device directly from the app. I can do it by inserting the memory card to my phone and adding the gpx to NewFiles folder, but I can’t do it from the app. Why?
These are the obvious problems with Garmin for long distance cycling. Like I said in the beginning most of the problems cited as ”Garmin problems” are really something else. No matter how good a navigator is it can’t figure out problems in the map source. Routing will never be flawless. Roads come and go, as do road constructions. In the end cyclist is the real navigator, not the device. And the device shouldn’t distract the real navigator.
I hope you are still there. 🙂
Transcontinental race 2014 – Complete kit list
I tried to cover everything I’m using at Transcontinental race this year.
The bike. It looks a lot like it did last year. Open pave tires, Powertap and Son Deluxe hubs with open pro rims. Brooks saddle and the usual components.
I am a bit afraid of the dark so I have 2x luxos (U/B) dynamo lights and MyTinySun Folkslight battery light. GoPro, and Folkslight, are this time tethered properly.
The usual dashboard is as last year. CS600 for heart rate and distance. Edge 810 for navigation and power.
Carradice Nelson with Ortlieb dry bag attached.
B&M Toplight mini dynamo rearlight for visibility and Niterider Solas2 battery light to blind everyone behind. Mostly using the dynamo light.
In Topeak Tribag a work glove, multitool and clip-on sunglasses. It is also used as a trashcan. The other frame bag is for food only.
Deuter triangle bag for most used extra clothes. Arm warmers, knee warmers, gloves and Buff.
Tools are in the Nelson.
- 2 spare tubes
- 1 spare tire
- 12 patches (and adhesive patches)
- 2 pumps (two similar pumps also carry each other’s spare parts :))
- Some oil and a rag
- 1x shifter and brake cable
- spare batteries, missing from the photo is Powertap tool
- spare cleat and BOA tools for shoes
- also missing from photo 3 spokes and nipples (in Nelson)
And packed.
Spare clothes. Shorts, wind-/waterproof jacket, toe warmers, reflective (wind) vest and a pair of socks.
This year I’ll use hip pack instead of backpack.
In the hip pack chamois cream, sunblock, electronics (3x micro-usb, 2x mini-usb, Olympus usb, 2x 2 slot usb chargers, Topeak and Nokia power banks, 12x lithium aaa:s (for SPOT and headlight), GoPro bacpac and Topeak multitool. Also a rag for cleaning hands (or/and anything except chain, really), scissors and 2 sporks. Packable Sea-to-Summit 30 litre backpack (the yellow thing in top right corner) as I don’t have a real backpack and I still need to carry food.
Also in the hip bag some (350 g) Powerbar drinking powder (the one with some caffeine and protein) and emergency ”food”.
Finally the human clothing and camping kit (photo is missing shoes that are in the Nelson). About 70 cm x 50cm worth bubble wrap suitable as sleeping pad. Clothes will work as a pillow during road side breaks. Emergency blanket as it might be too cold or hot. There is a towel in the photo, but I am likely to drop that from the very final list. All carried in the Ortlieb dry bag. Idea is that I open it only when I’m taking a longer sleeping break
The kit I’ll be wearing. Only thing changed from last year is gloves. + I’ll probably be wearing the event cap instead. In helmet there is Petzl Tikka 2 xp light that is easy to remove for day time.
Finally my pockets from left to right. Primary phone, wallet, passport. Secondary phone, multitool, headphones and handsfree (when not in use). In rightmost pocket Tg-3 camera.