Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑13 Jan 2023, 12:58pm
Cugel wrote: ↑13 Jan 2023, 12:04pm
In cycling about for quite some time and miles, I've noticed that gizmos on the handlebars (or elsewhere) that supply data you can either do without of just remember are a bit of a nuisance, detracting as they do from the bike riding pleasures. Sometimes they cost loadsamoney too. Even the cheap 2nd hand ones are redundant, really.
Personally, I agree with you. But for many people, recording and analysing that data is a part of the pleasure of cycling.
Hee hee, I know .... but .....
I would classify those data-parsing pleasures as something other than cycling. After all, you can do it without any cycling at all. I suppose its the data from their personal cycling that they're most fond off, though.
But what would life be like if we collected such data about every activity we undertake? How many times did I go to the netty and how much micturation did I emit on each visit, with the average for the day and the week? And so forth. After all, such data might be much more important than how many miles I did on the bike this week, at what speed. The netty data might reveal all sorts of impending, er, issues.
Cugel, off to collect the number of seconds and words involved with typing into this forum, with averages for sentence length, word variety, number of colons (and semi-colons) ......
[That's more than enough pointless Cugel data - the forum anti-boredom monitor].
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John Maynard Keynes