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H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 1, 2016 6:04 AM
Tinkered around with the Radar Pace...

Out if the box it'll pair with your phone, and play music; sound quality is nice. Once paired, it prompts you to download the Radar Pace App; which you need to interact w/ it. It pairs with ANT+ devices (Heart Rate Monitor, Speed & Cadence devices, and Power Meters) to pull in stats for your workout. I use almost all these devices to connect to my Garmin Bike Computer, so I'm very curious if I can have these devices connected to both my Garmin & Radar Pace at the same time...

Note the Wind Deflector on the left side... it's for talking to Radar Pace on the bike at speeds 20-30mph. Glad they took this into account, but wish they would have made a matching one for the other side. This piece snaps on, and when it's on, the stem cannot close.

Now if only we had access to the other colorway...


JP
John Schafhauser
Oct 1, 2016 11:59 AM
Thanks Chris!
brian
Brian Keim
Oct 1, 2016 5:50 PM
How do phone calls sound?
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 1, 2016 10:22 PM
How do phone calls sound? - brian

Ah! I didn't try the phone call... dang it. I'll try that tomorrow; I'm going back up to pair the Pace with more sensors on my bike to see how that works out.
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 1, 2016 10:53 PM
Firmware Update via Bluetooth... straightforward, successful, & impressive.

The Pace connected with my Garmin ANT+ Heart Rate Monitor, and still allowed it to remain connected to my Garmin Bike computer (Pace does NOT connect to bike computers). This was what I was concerned about as my Garmin pulls in data from my HR Monitor, and other sensors (Speed, Cadence, & Power Meters), to provide me a comprehensive summary of my ride that I sync with Strava (Strava is a social media for fitness data). I plan on testing out the connectivity to the sensors on my bike tomorrow. And at this time, I have not figured out if it's possible to upload data from my workouts with Radar Pace, to Strava.

HED4JC
Kenny "HED" Wu
Oct 2, 2016 3:36 AM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now?
Patient_Cero
T C
Oct 2, 2016 7:51 AM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now? - HED4JC

That's all they've posted online so far.

http://www.oakley.com/en/product/W0OO9333PZRD?skuCode=OO9333-01?icmp=Hero_1_Shop-Radar-Pace
Defenderoftheo
Defender
Oct 2, 2016 7:56 PM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now? - HED4JC



Yes only the one for now. Also for those curious the Lens and E/N Kit are different than Radar EV so no using EV parts tweak the colors yourself.
Patient_Cero
T C
Oct 3, 2016 1:09 AM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now? - HED4JC



Yes only the one for now. Also for those curious the Lens and E/N Kit are different than Radar EV so no using EV parts tweak the colors yourself. - Defenderoftheo


Now that is pretty disappointing if true. Have you seen them apart to identify what is different with the lenses?
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 3, 2016 2:18 AM
Here's some more info on the Pace and how it works. If you're going to just use it for playing music from your phone, none of this matters, but if you're going to use it for training, this should help clear up questions you might have.


Pleased to see the Export of Radar Pace Data / Import to Strava does in fact exist and work! It's not automatic like Garmin and other devices; it is a bit of a manual process, but at least it works. In the Radar Pace App, you select the share icon on the workout, and then select GPX; you then receive an email to the address you registered your account to, and a link to download. At that point it's just a matter of doing the manual upload to Strava on your computer.


Tested out the ANT+ pairing of the sensors (Garmin) on my bike tonight. Radar Pace recognized the HR Monitor & Speed/Cadence Sensor; confirmed the crank length & wheel size and then I was all set. Both my Garmin 510 & Radar Pace were able to communicate with the all the sensors at the same time; this was my biggest concern as I still wanted all the data to be displayed on my Garmin. Communicating w/ Radar Pace at 21mph was not an issue; requesting Heart Rate & Speed were intuitive... and interacting with her was straight forward. I did realize I now need to get a Power Meter if I truly want more stats and provide Radar Pace with the information she needs to analyze my efforts.
Oak
Twenty Fifty
Oct 3, 2016 6:38 AM
Thanks for the great writeup/review of the Pace.
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 3, 2016 3:20 PM
Thanks for the great writeup/review of the Pace. - Oak

Thanks Oak, glad to contribute and provide the info... it's going to be interesting to see how the coaching turns out. I have a 15k run I do in March, and I haven't started preparing for it yet. So this is going to be the real world test for me. And of course I'm going to start using on the bike.

Hopefully I have some more useful info in the coming months after I get true use of it.
Defenderoftheo
Defender
Oct 5, 2016 7:48 PM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now? - HED4JC



Yes only the one for now. Also for those curious the Lens and E/N Kit are different than Radar EV so no using EV parts tweak the colors yourself. - Defenderoftheo


Now that is pretty disappointing if true. Have you seen them apart to identify what is different with the lenses? - Patient_Cero


Yes I have. The are cut completely different on the edges to accommodate fitting them around the frame components. The RadarEV lens won't even try to go in.
The Game
The Game
Oct 6, 2016 3:38 AM
I'll wait for other color ways to be released, the black/road combo is dull.
Patient_Cero
T C
Oct 6, 2016 8:28 AM
Is the pace only available in one color way right now? - HED4JC



Yes only the one for now. Also for those curious the Lens and E/N Kit are different than Radar EV so no using EV parts tweak the colors yourself. - Defenderoftheo


Now that is pretty disappointing if true. Have you seen them apart to identify what is different with the lenses? - Patient_Cero


Yes I have. The are cut completely different on the edges to accommodate fitting them around the frame components. The RadarEV lens won't even try to go in.
- Defenderoftheo

That is a real bummer in many ways, but understandable in some as well. Thanks for info.
Oak
Twenty Fifty
Oct 10, 2016 3:42 PM
I could've sworn I posted this last week, but I probably just forgot and am imagining things. Anyways, the CyclingTips collab is pictured below and comes with the stand:

https://shop.cyclingtips.com/collections/cyclingtips/products/oakley-jawbreaker-prizm-road-collaborative-sunglasses

cyclingtips.com/2016/10/oakley-x-cyclingtips-introducing-our-collaborative-jawbreaker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cyclingtipsblog%2FTJog+(Cycling+Tips)




Looking forward to it. Mine should already be on it's way from Australia.
rhlake
Robert Lake
Oct 10, 2016 3:44 PM
Thanks Oak!

Is it bad I like the stand better than the glasses??!! 🤔
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 10, 2016 4:51 PM
Thanks for posting this up Oak; order placed.

rhlake, no... I do too, but I do like the retina burn.
yelkao
Dan
Oct 10, 2016 4:53 PM
I love the stand. The color way is cool but the stand makes it.
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Chris Hoiberg
Oct 12, 2016 2:56 AM
First bike ride with Radar Pace ...all was good for the first 44min (just as I was joining the group and we were getting underway), and then the Coach bailed on me.

I didn't realize it until the end of the ride, after I left the group and headed home; I tried talking to Radar Pace and got no response... so I pulled over and checked my iPhone, and saw this.

During the entire 1hr 46min ride I was still able to listen to my music, which is why I didn't think anything was wrong; when riding with the group at speeds of 25-30mph, I didn't really have the time to interact with Radar Pace.

Note: I'm not sure if this is a problem with Radar Pace or the Bluetooth stack on the iPhone.

Oak
Twenty Fifty
Oct 12, 2016 4:49 AM
That sucks. Hopefully it's a one-shot deal with the BT disconnect and that it'll be stable once you get it connected again.
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 12, 2016 5:57 AM
I'm hoping so Oak. I was able to get it reconnected once back home and powered Pace off/on. I'm trying to figure out exactly when it happened... maybe it had something to do with speed... not sure just yet. And hopefully I'll get another ride in tomorrow to give it another go.
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 12, 2016 8:38 AM
I think I might have figured out what caused the Bluetooth Connection Failure with my Radar Pace last night during the ride... there's two scenarios that I was able to put together based on the Time into the ride & the Distance into the ride; both of which lined up with 2 different points on the ride data from my Garmin:
1) The Pace locked up pausing/un-pausing the workout at the Stop sign, at 44:44. (Yes, we stop at them.)
2) The Pace had a communication failure just as we passed under I-295, at 15.6mi; there is a known cellular dead-spot as you are coming off the bridge that drops phone calls every time. It's really bad.
I am thinking it was 2), as this was some serious interference that wouldn't allow the Pace to reconnect.

And interestingly enough, looking at the Workout Detail from the Radar Pace App... look at the Distance & Elapsed Time, very close to passing by the cellular dead spot.

The Bluetooth connection is how it talks to the phone, but the App uses the GPS for location services for the mapping. During the ride, the music would skip in and out every now and then, but always picked right back up. I have had other Bluetooth sport headphones that do this as it's a distance thing, and my phone is in my back pocket. So I didn't think much about it cutting in and out during the ride. (It's wasn't that frequent it did it, but it was at least 5-6 times) When we were passing this spot, 15.6mi, we were moving at 28mph... if it did skip a beat with the music playing, it would have been the last thing my mind was paying attention to in a pack of +30 riders moving at that speed. With the mapping feature having stopped at that distance, I am really thinking the cellular interference did a number on it. It's really a bad spot, everyone in our city knows your phone call will be dropped as soon as you get off the bridge; and this road we were on is less than 100yds from that spot.
flyer
Dave Arnott
Oct 12, 2016 11:21 AM
... maybe it had something to do with speed...

You know you're riding too fast when you outrun your Bluetooth!
H01B3RG
Chris Hoiberg
Oct 12, 2016 1:36 PM
... maybe it had something to do with speed...

You know you're riding too fast when you outrun your Bluetooth!
- flyer

I should just stick with the short explanation... my pace was too fast for Pace. ;)
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