Cycling UK Forum

The best way to find out his sort of information is to use Google Streetview. Using it, I can easily see that you can pass under the A303 just to the north of Marsh.

Will

hultmark wrote:

rollinbone wrote:Install a SON delux hub = £250 approx
Hook up to an eWerk = £115 approx
Using USB setting on eWerk > any USB devise and you're off! charge and use on the go.

I think that this may be the charger unit (and hub) I've got. Have you managed to get it to work with an iPhone? iPod etc yes fine for me, but iPhone no.

I believe you need to use the e-Werk cache battery with an iPhone. The iPhone charges off the cache battery, and the cache battery charges from the e-Werk.

Will

I think the problem the OP has is that he is trying to charge the battery on a Garmin Quest. This device normally charges in a cradle that delivers 5v, 1Ah to the charging pins. It has a mini-USB port, but this is for data only, and cannot be used to trickle charge the battery.

It may be that the Quest can run on power from the USB port (but not charge the internal battery). You could test this by connecting it to your PC over USB, and leave both on for 24 hours. If the Quest is still running after this time, then you could probably look at a solution that allows you to charge external batteries (and just run it from them).

Will

Maybe it is one of the fixed GPS stations that the Ordnance Survey use:

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsi ... llsize.jpg

Will

I just installed MMTracker on my HTC Legend (Running Android 2.2). It states that it can only work with unencrypted Memory map .qct files.

I have tested it using some self-calibrated maps that I have created myself, and it displays and scrolls them as well as any other handheld device (such as the MM Adventurer).

I also tried to use it with an Open street View map, and although it looked like it could display it OK, when you tried to scroll the map, it just screwed up the display.

I doubt that you will be able to use it with any official MM map, but it works fine if you create your own maps (like I do).

Will

The game changing technology as far as GPS for cyclists is concerned is electrowetting displays.

Electrowetting displays use reflective light, rather than a backlight to display the image. The display becomes even more readable in bright sunshine, and uses less power than current LCD displays. Power consumption can be reduced even further by using low refresh rates (you wouldn't need a high refresh rate to display a map for instance). You will be able to power a device with an electrowetting display far longer on a single charge. This makes it an ideal technology for GPS displays.

This technology has been developed by a dutch company called Liquavista (which was a research offshoot of Phillips). Last month they were taken over by Samsung (the world's largest display manufacturer). You can expect to see this type of display in a e-reader first, and it then begin to be available on Smart phones etc. after that.

You can see a demo of the performance of this type of display outdoors on You tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tzaIgZ ... re=related

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have been working on using paper as the substrate for an electrowetting display. This will lead to flexible paper based displays (probably be similar to a piece of laminated paper). Maybe one day we will have an GPS with an external electrowetting display the size of a folded map on top of our bar bag.

Will

I've got the 1:50000 MagicMaps v4.0 for Germany.

According to the help, when you click on the print button, the area that it prints is that which is visible. I looks like you resize the 2D window to display the area you want to print before hitting the print button. You may have to zoom out to get the window to display the area you want.

Unfortunately, I get an error when I try to print (it complains that I do not have enough graphic memory) so I cannot test.

There are also upgrades to the software available at:

http://www.magicmaps.de/service/download.html

Update: I've been able to sort out my printing issue (it was an OpenGL problem). I've now got the printing function working, and it does work as described above.

Will

I use these titanium pegs:

Clamcleats Tornado Titanium tent pegs

They are bigger than the aluminium pegs that came with my Hilleberg Nallo, and weigh about the same. They are big enough to give a good hold in soft ground, and strong enough to hammer into the hardest of grounds without bending. They are expensive compared to other pegs, but I think they are worth it.

Will

You will find a link to the user manual on this page:

http://www.memory-map.com/support.htm

Will

bodach wrote:Is that the hospital or is it the carehome just down the road?

It is the former care home that is on the right hand side as you come up from the ferry (about 0.5Km before the leftt turn down to the Co-op).

Will

From today's Daily Mash:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/edmonds'-wife-questioned-over-absence-of-mercy-killing-201002172481/

Will

I've got the Busch and Muller one for the Ixon on my commuter bike. I tried my old Cateye Opticube with it and it would not fit. The Cateye is slightly wider and has a bit that protrudes and catches the front of the bracket.

Will

There is also EuropaRadweg R1:

http://www.euroroute-r1.de/EN/Introduct ... 1/K407.htm

Will

I would advise against using the section on LF3 north of Leeuwarden.

Here, LF3 runs along the west side of the Dokkumer Ee river. There are a number of small canals/rivers that feed into the Dokkumer Ee at right angles. To cross them, you have to use small wooden bridges that have steep ramps. Some of them have a metal surface, and have battons for your feet to grip on as you push your bike up. I think you would find then difficult to get up them in your power chair, and risk tipping backwards on some of the steeper ones.

Will

I usually find it is best to avoid school holidays when touring. Accommodation is a lot easier to find, and you don't have to book so far ahead. The following website gives details of dutch school holidays:

http://www.holidays-info.com/School-Hol ... _2010.html

The weather end of June/start of July can be quite nice, and avoids the start of the school holidays.

Will