2013 ACF BIKE JOURNAL fit gits on bikes fun comp

[Dr_Mutley]

thanks mate.... is their an easy way u can just upload your garmin to, or do u have to just manually enter your odometer figure for the year periodically into BJ?
i would consider going to the strava dark side if its a matter of just uploading your garmin to it...

Manually is the only option I am aware of with BJ. Strava and Garmin Connect both allow you to simply upload data direct from your Garmin.

In Strava, you can keep all of your rides private, so only you can see them. Or you can keep your place of residence and work private so there is a 500m - 1km radius around it where others cannot see your travels. Distance varies and can only be adjusted by contacting Strava support. They are helpful with this as I had to do it.

I use BJ as I have done for almost two years now. I use GC as it is great for setting myself goals and I can easily share rides with others on FaceBook, etc if I want to (for charity rides and the like). Strava, I use for keeping records of Personal Best times, etc. Strava now keeps record of bike components a lot better. In the past BJ was the best at this but Strava have now done it better. So I can easily see how many kms I have on my chain, tyres, cassette, etc. It's a good maintenance tool making BJ slowly become obsolete. Which is really unfortunate as I really like BJ.

I could pay for Strava and be able to set goals but GC does it for free.

I hope that info helps?

Sure does thanks. I already use GC to upload my data too, incase my garmin dies. Is there a script (or a way) to update the stats in your sig straight from GC?

[darkelf921]

Sure does thanks. I already use GC to upload my data too, incase my garmin dies. Is there a script (or a way) to update the stats in your sig straight from GC?

Not that I am aware of.

[Dr_Mutley]

Hmmm ok what am I doing wrong? I have stay monkey pointing at my BJ page but no worky....

[darkelf921]

Have you set your rides to be public?

[Dr_Mutley]

Have you set your rides to be public?

Ahhh that was the prob... Thanks

[martinjs]

Semi active still, made my 12,000k's for the year last year and with 76,000k's up since 1997 hope to reach 100,000's in 2 years. Meaning of course my target for this year is another 12,000k's

Martin

Just a quick thanks to LTR and Andrew for supplying the information on updating the graph showing our k's.
Works a charm.

Martin

[martinjs]

I've used BJ for over 5 years now, pay every year. For my basic needs it offers everything I need. Always try and be a premium member as I think it's the right thing to do.

Martin

[Livetoride]

Good call Mate

[rebilda]

I am not sure what happened, but when I looked today, I was still displaying last years distance indicator - so I deleted it from my signature.

Can anyone tell me how to get the 2013 distance indicator???

[Livetoride]

I am not sure what happened, but when I looked today, I was still displaying last years distance indicator - so I deleted it from my signature.

Can anyone tell me how to get the 2013 distance indicator???

G'day mate, will flick you the instructions later this morning

LTR

[BandedRail]

Finally got the Orbea back today after a little stack a few weeks ago which toasted the LH shifter (took me FOREVER to get the right parts). Been an interesting time on the MTB, managed a 100 km Audax ride (thankfully it was a UAF ride with a 22.5 km average) and I've been doing high intensity rides on my commute instead (yes, I've been trying to race the roadies - sometimes successfully ). I know I have some field work coming up which will keep me off the bike so I'm trying hard to get a few extra kms under the belt, damn shame how life gets in the way of cycling though.

[master6]

Member numbers are well down on BJ this year, currently only 291 active members on BJ

One reason might be that, like me, people who are not computer geeks have become frustrated with the need to jump backwards through three burning counter rotating hoops while saying "farkit" thirty times in three seconds, in order to go from 31/12 to 1/1.

Does it have to be so f&^%(&%&$ing complicated??