This post comes a couple of days after riding the Shimanami Kaido. It’s took a while to convince myself that it was worth writing this but I guess it serves as a way of concluding my first ever long distance ride overseas. The best part of which was it was done with a loved one.

The worst part? Was that my Garmin hung midway through the ride and I lost a days worth of ride track. Looking at the bright side, was that I didn’t lose everything, thanks to Strava on my iPhone…  Continue reading Riding the Shimanami Kaido →

Garmin Express sucks. While it works most of the time for its normal software functions, the really critical stuff such as firmware updates don’t work well.
I had to hunt for the GUPDATE file for my Garmin Edge 810 and install it manually.

I finally managed to find the file located at Garmin firmware files.

Just download the appropriate file and copy the GUPDATE into the /GARMIN directory of your device’s main memory. Unmount and Reboot the Garmin and you should see the file getting picked up and installed. The device might reboot a couple of times and finally, it should settle on the normal use screen.

I had to re-pair my iPhone in order to use the Garmin Mobile Connect app again. Language and certain metrics had to be re-set up too. But once its done, everything works fine.

There isn’t much places to ride in Singapore that can get you enough speed and distance. But sometimes, we manage to find a way to clock the distance, and this takes me almost 1/2 way across the island.

Check out some route images. I managed to catch and F-15 Eagle flyby too.

I also managed to to test out stabilised versus unstablized recordings from footages on the GoPro using iMovie

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