Summer Comes Again

With the changing of the seasons comes the changing of the sealant. The tubeless tire sealant, that is.

Hmm, I thought I had tubeless tires but these are clearly tubulars.

It's also worn out, as tends to happen with the rear tire on my gravel bike after one year.

For reference, it's supposed to look like this.

So with this tire replaced and the tubeless sealant refreshed on all my tubeless bikes, it's also time to do the summertime conversion on my gravel bike.

Since the rain is done for the year. I hope. It did actually just rain on Monday, which is highly unusual.

Speaking of things that are inflating, the battery in my Garmin 1030 is looking a little spicy.

So that's not real good. But the solution is pretty easy.

I'm actually planning on replacing the battery in the 1030, but that generation of Garmins have an absolutely sluggish, underpowered CPU in them leading to a really laggy, slow UI.

So I'm not really sad to see it go, I'll probably pass it on to a cow-orker for cheap once the new battery arrives.

In the meantime, I've got a new toy to play with. The 840 is a bit smaller than the 1030, which actually works out well for me because I have a few mounts that are really designed to fit the 840-sized devices.

And as an extra bonus, the 840 generation now has USB C charging, which is a great upgrade over the micro-B.

Lucky for me, Garmin has made the migration process a lot easier recently, so all my data screens and so on synced over automatically.

They're even generous enough to throw in an out-front mount, which is actually sized to fit the 10x0 series devices.

But I already have plenty of extra mounts, so I'll probably toss this one in with the 1030 when I get rid of it.

So stay tuned later for the battery replacement adventure.