View Poll Results: how many batteries are in your most-ridden bike?
NONE. electrons are for losers.
31
25.83%
1
14
11.67%
2
14
11.67%
3
11
9.17%
4
12
10.00%
5-7
22
18.33%
8+
16
13.33%
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how many batteries are in your bike?
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1. FD
2. RD
3. Left Shifter
4. Right Shifter
5. Garmin 1030
6. Garmin Varia
7. Turboflash light
8. HRM
9. Front light
10. iPhone
11. Spare derailleur battery
12. Spare 21700 battery
13. Spare AAA batteries
14. Powertap CR2032 battery and/or Crank PM battery
15. Sometimes a tracking device
Do I win?
2. RD
3. Left Shifter
4. Right Shifter
5. Garmin 1030
6. Garmin Varia
7. Turboflash light
8. HRM
9. Front light
10. iPhone
11. Spare derailleur battery
12. Spare 21700 battery
13. Spare AAA batteries
14. Powertap CR2032 battery and/or Crank PM battery
15. Sometimes a tracking device
Do I win?
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My bike computer has a small battery, as does the sensor on the spokes. That's it unless I am riding at night. I don't carry a phone or other devices.
Anyone with a pacemaker or anything out of the ordinary?
Anyone with a pacemaker or anything out of the ordinary?
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One, for the rear blinkie. Two, if you want to count the cell phone.
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Di2 system
Flare headlight
Garmin 1030+
Garmin extended battery pack
GoPro camera (front facing)
HRM
Left side power meter
Flare tail light on helmet
Varia 715 radar/light/camera
Cellphone (don't actually use it for the bike, but just in case)
So, that makes 10. The new Varia, with one battery, replaces 4 - Varia (radar only), Flare tail light, GoPro camera (rear facing), Anker power supply for GoPro.
Flare headlight
Garmin 1030+
Garmin extended battery pack
GoPro camera (front facing)
HRM
Left side power meter
Flare tail light on helmet
Varia 715 radar/light/camera
Cellphone (don't actually use it for the bike, but just in case)
So, that makes 10. The new Varia, with one battery, replaces 4 - Varia (radar only), Flare tail light, GoPro camera (rear facing), Anker power supply for GoPro.
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Should be arriving today. Reviews have been mixed - mostly about the lack of image stabilization. But, most of the roads I ride are fairly smooth (no gravel or mountain biking) and stabilization could very well be a software update in the future.
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i’d like it for longer battery life (with camera off) and recordings of drivers who do dangerous **** in the city. stabilization probably wouldn’t be needed for me.
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None "in bike", however when I'm riding: 1 in my Garmin, 1 in my Apple Watch, 1 in my iPhone and 1 in. my ICD ( implantable cardioverter-defibrillator).
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only 38 votes, but an odd almost-valley shaped statistical distribution with lots of 0/1 batteries and the next highest peak at 5–7. basically, people either avoid gadgets and high/tech bikes…. or they go all in.
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I wanted to make sure I was clear which you were asking before I marked the poll.
So I am now assuming you want a tally of all the batteries that come along on my ride, right?
Just realized I didn't include the phone battery, but it is almost irrelevant to the operations, so I will just mark the poll with the remaining ones.
So I am now assuming you want a tally of all the batteries that come along on my ride, right?
Just realized I didn't include the phone battery, but it is almost irrelevant to the operations, so I will just mark the poll with the remaining ones.
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I wanted to make sure I was clear which you were asking before I marked the poll.
So I am now assuming you want a tally of all the batteries that come along on my ride, right?
Just realized I didn't include the phone battery, but it is almost irrelevant to the operations, so I will just mark the poll with the remaining ones.
So I am now assuming you want a tally of all the batteries that come along on my ride, right?
Just realized I didn't include the phone battery, but it is almost irrelevant to the operations, so I will just mark the poll with the remaining ones.
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Sorry, the "in/on" was hidden in plain sight in the subtitle for the caption to the poll.
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My earbuds, phone, and Cinq cache battery so three
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Well, I was hoping to win this, one but sadly not!
I'm at 14 all in unless I'm doing an all night ride in which case I'd have an extra headlight and then I'd be at 15. I'm no more advanced than GhostRider62 !
I'm at 14 all in unless I'm doing an all night ride in which case I'd have an extra headlight and then I'd be at 15. I'm no more advanced than GhostRider62 !
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Do I count the iPhone when it is in my pocket or just on the bars?
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ironically, my creo (eBike) has less batteries than my aethos. a long ride at night:
iphone
front light
main battery
control unit battery
varia
HRM
ICD
vs.
iphone
front light
di2
left shifter
right shifter
left PM
right PM
varia
HRM
ICD
iphone
front light
main battery
control unit battery
varia
HRM
ICD
vs.
iphone
front light
di2
left shifter
right shifter
left PM
right PM
varia
HRM
ICD
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So Arc Reactors are not to be included? Not sure it would really be labelled as a battery anyway.
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So ~23% of the respondents don't ride pre-dawn or post-dusk?
Must not be serious cyclists.
Must not be serious cyclists.
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Hadn't stopped to think about it but looks like 8. If I'm driving to a ride somewhere it would be 9 with the keyfob, but I don't do that very often.
- Headlight
- Tailight
- Cyclic rear cam
- Garmin
- Speed/cadence sensor
- HRM strap
- Di2
- iphone
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On or in the bike or on or in me:
- Di2 battery. To my knowledge, 11 speed Di2 systems only have one battery. Do you others counting Shimano shifters and DR's already have Shimano 12 speed? If so, I'm envious! <grin>
- Edge 530
- Varia RVR 515
- Garmin GSC10 (for wheel speed)
- HR Strap
- Bontrager Flare front light
- Bontrager Flare rear light
- 4iiii left crank PM
- S-works Angi crash sensor
- Wireless handset paired with Zello app on phone for communication with spouse, son or anyone on my contact list with zello as if I'm using a walkie-talkie. Saves having to specifically answer the phone for a call or dialing to make a call.
- Cell Phone (in my back pocket).
- Implanted cardiac device. Just a loop monitor to record my heartbeat 24x7. Though the battery died a few months ago and I haven't had it taken out yet.
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Not even one battery on the bike...The only battery powered gadgets I carry are a cell phone and a tactical flashlight both of which stay in my cargo pants pocket.