My Scalpel came with a wheel sensor as standard. As well as reporting speed and distance, in conjunction with the app it also tells you when you ought to go and spend a million pounds on getting the Lefty serviced. Anyway, this morning I was cleaning the bike and I thought I hadn't looked at the app for a while, so I opened it and it said there was a firmware update for the sensor. So I started the process, whereupon it decided that the battery was dead. No problem, I've got a load of spare 2032s, so I took the sensor off and replaced the battery. After 25 minutes trying to refit it, I gave in and removed the brake rotor so I could get better access, and even then it took another 5 minutes of swearing, dropping tiny bits of bracket, and general messing about. I don't think it would be hard to design a bracket that clipped in place before doing up the screw, instead of requiring you to balance tiny bits of plastic in a confined space while trying to do up a 2mm hex bolt.
Another one for my list having now tried to do some modest work on the child's new bike.Â
Internally routed cables. I can just about see the point on a proper race spec road bike. Using it on anything else is just stupid...
Well if you will go walking your dog, off the lead, in a place which has signs up saying no dogs allowed, don't be surprised if that dog very nearly gets squashed by me on my bike and I appear DC and shout that your dog is not allowed here.
