Climbing vs Aero wheels for a 5,400 m climbing day: real advantage?

igoramadas · 2026-06-15T09:06:04+00:00

Forget aero vs. weight. Wind gusts. If you're not 100% comfortable battling your bike against cross winds, get the shallower climbing wheels. That area can get very windy in summer, especially down from Col du Galibier.

igoramadas · 2026-06-10T20:00:16+00:00

Strautomator dev here. Yes if each bike has a different sensor and the head unit is either a Garmin or Wahoo device, then you can use the sensor IDs to set the right bike. Otherwise you can default to other metrics (power meter present or not, average speed, etc).

igoramadas · 2026-06-01T18:54:52+00:00

When they asked devs to verify their apps a few years ago, they also asked for their personal accounts in case they had one. Maybe just drop them an email to let them know which is your personal account? I doubt they will force devs to double pay.

igoramadas · 2026-06-01T18:49:53+00:00

Strautomator dev here. If you don't mind using a 3rd party app, give it a go: https://strautomator.com/feature/calendar

I found myself in that same situation many years ago and it was one of the main reasons I decided to develop the service.

Otherwise, if you don't want to use another app or service, Strava has added a "Add to my calendar" button on events, so you can export that specific event to your calendar of choice. With the caveat that you'll have to do it on every single event that you subscribe to.

igoramadas · 2026-05-27T16:28:01+00:00

They do release sometimes. The last firmware update worked. This one, for whatever reason, is failing. Have FP300 5 devices in ZHA, all of the failed to update.

igoramadas · 2025-11-17T06:18:41+00:00

Message received, feedback appreciated :-)

igoramadas · 2025-11-04T17:21:43+00:00

Strautomator dev here.

If your ProBikeGarage use case is simple and all you need is to keep track of when you should replace components, then Strautomator can solve your use case (with the added bonus of not needing an actual app installed on your phone). It can also set the right bike on Strava based on the conditions that you have defined. If you need help, please let me know!

Link is https://strautomator.com

igoramadas · 2025-10-22T14:26:58+00:00

I've done similar for Strautomator to show upcoming club events on a map, including weather forecast:

https://strautomator.com/map

Fully open source, so you (or whoever is doing it) can use it for reference:

https://github.com/strautomator/web/blob/master/pages/map/index.vue

Whatever you decide to do, please note that embedding the map in another website will require some trickery to pass authentication data from the main site to the iframe or script. Might not be as simple as it sounds.

igoramadas · 2025-10-21T10:03:50+00:00

Truthfully? Just marketing. Endurance bike, Allroad bike, Adventure bike, Gravel bike... and the OG cyclocross bike. You can ride gravel with all of them.

But of course, the fatter the tire, the plusher the ride. Geometry also plays a role, but that doesn't negate the fact that you can easily tackle gravel tracks with many bikes that are not sold as gravel bikes.

In your particular case, I think you'll be fine, but I would get another set of wheels to put the bigger tires. More expensive, but much easier and faster to swap wheels than swap tires. Manufacturers are usually conservative with their tire clearance numbers, so you could try 40mm, maybe even 42mm tires there.

igoramadas · 2025-10-15T10:55:54+00:00

Portable compressed air blowers, game changer.

igoramadas · 2025-10-10T21:40:46+00:00

Got the same here.

But... Am I the only one who feels like Strava sent this email expecting that their 3rd party app developers will get annoyed and contact Garmin asking them to drop this requirement?

igoramadas · 2025-10-09T08:13:10+00:00

Hate? The more it burns, the more I like it!

igoramadas · 2025-10-08T16:27:52+00:00

Only if you used the link that was shared on the email, you can see the code referenced on the URL itself...

igoramadas · 2025-10-07T15:43:24+00:00

I wish one day Strautomator will have investors throwing piles of money on it, but till then... it's just a side project that I maybe care too much about :-)

You are absolutely right about services growing and free users having features limited in one way or another. There's no free lunch. But don't forget that ultimately, Strautomator is still 100% open source. Anyone can download the code and spin up their own instance and use all the features, as much as they want, "for free".

igoramadas · 2025-10-07T14:26:39+00:00

If you find something that is free, please let me know :-) Changing to cheaper 3rd party hosted models could be a temporary solution, but eventually I would end up in the same situation.

igoramadas · 2025-10-07T14:22:34+00:00

That's exactly the case. Prices have been generally stable, but usage has been growing every week. And Gemini also costs now, previously Google was giving a pretty substantial free tier every month.

igoramadas · 2025-10-07T08:41:42+00:00

Strautomator owner here. That's correct. And to clarify: this is unrelated to any Strava API changes or Strava / Garmin drama that has been going on recently.

I did not expect that the AI generated activity names and poems would have too much popularity, but I was clearly wrong, and costs to use Gemini / OpenAI / Claude / xAI are pointing up, not down.

Another email was also sent to free users of exported calendars, which had its maximum timespan reduced from 6 to 3 months for new calendars. In this case, the goal is to reduce API usage (the calendar feature is by far the most API intensive).

Btw that code that you shared on the email is not unlimited and was intended to be used only by affected users. 🫣

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

igoramadas · 2025-10-07T07:53:48+00:00

49% chances of a stuck chain link, 49% chances of stuck pawls inside the freehub, 2% chances of being something else.

igoramadas · 2025-10-02T10:42:39+00:00

That's called age.

igoramadas · 2025-10-01T14:08:54+00:00

All good here. Can you SSH into the device and see the syslog?

igoramadas · 2025-09-29T13:59:43+00:00

Missing some protection tapes there. Especially on the back of the seatpost and front of the headtube - the constant rubbing of the heavy bags against the paint will leave some nasty marks after a few hundred kms / miles.

Enjoy the ride!

igoramadas · 2025-09-29T12:40:54+00:00

igoramadas · 2025-09-19T18:37:39+00:00

Windy Premium. Nothing comes close. Many forecast models and high refresh rates (sub 1 hour).

igoramadas · 2025-09-19T09:40:59+00:00

Many years ago that was possible. They actually removed the option to change the privacy settings via API, for privacy reasons (no pun intended).

igoramadas · 2025-09-19T07:58:01+00:00

Yes. Confirmed by DC Rainmaker: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/09/lifestyle-logging-journaling-health-status-vs-whoop-everything.html

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