Life seems to have turned a circle. As the most popular means of transportation in the 1970s and one of the three major pieces, bicycles gradually fade out of people's lives with the improvement of living standards; However, in today's increasingly congested traffic and increasing work pressure, bicycles, as a tool for short commutes and fitness, return to our lives again. Of course, today's bicycles, with the help of various sports equipment, not only record our sports, but also provide us with more reasonable riding guidance. Today, let's take a look at where the intelligence of this intelligent riding companion, called "fin", can make our riding different.

The packing box of fin is very small, and the black matte paper box is exquisite. When you change the angle, you will see the highlighted "ID photo" of fin, and the leisurely lavender "line" character makes people look forward to it. Reasonably, the sticker we tried by Lei Feng really matches this box~

The following is also a very simple design. The label of "Walker" is designed carefully and has a high degree of recognition.

After opening the packing box, you can see the three major pieces of fins, but I prefer to call the body of shark fins fins fins.

The appearance of bright plastic is very beautiful, but I don't know how the scratch resistance is. After all, I often have to deal with sand, mud and water. The fins can be fixed on the vehicle with straps through the fixing holes at the lower left and lower right corners; The three white labels in the lower left corner and the upper right corner mark two sensing areas, which are convenient for installation and debugging. They are thoughtful about small details.

Like the delicate outer packing box, the various accessories of the fin are also carefully made. For example, the magnet used to detect the tread frequency is also engraved with the traveler's logo, echoing the word "line" on the fin body. The feeling of delicacy runs through the whole process.

If you look carefully, you will find that there are actually two magnets on it. In addition to the magnet that detects the pedal frequency itself, there is also a spare magnet. It is also thoughtful. Here, I still have to say that the magnetic force of the artificial magnet is really strong.

In addition to the three major pieces seen when opening the packaging box, after taking off the first layer, there are five complimentary straps and the product instructions.

The fin uses a button battery. Of course, the manufacturer gave a piece of it as a gift, and it is wrapped with insulating paper. The battery switch has a sealing rubber ring. The manufacturer said that the level of splash proof water is high. In fact, the working environment of the fin is very bad compared with traditional code meters. The probability of water contact is quite high, so waterproof performance is very important, Personally, I suggest users who often wade should do more waterproof treatment themselves.

The installation of fins is really troublesome. It is necessary to ensure the induction stability of the stepping magnet and the induction stability of the wheel rim magnet. Generally speaking, we often install the wheel rim magnet in the front wheel as a counting tool of the traditional code meter. The rear wheel frame is wider than the front fork. In order to ensure the induction stability, the stepping magnet of the rear wheel still needs additional magnets.

hard First of all, let's see how the software works. I wonder if it will be as delicate as fins.

"Although I have traveled thousands of miles," it is encouraging to open the app and see it; The content of the app main interface is clearly displayed, and the speed display area that best represents the riding status is the largest.

Click the cycling logo in the upper left corner to switch the sports status, so the app can not only record the cycling status, it is more like a professional outdoor sports software. Click the tooth disc sign in the upper right corner to call out some quick settings.

For cycling, offline maps are indispensable. The traveler app is still smart. After positioning, it automatically downloads the map of the current city, rather than the map of the province. What is more surprising is that three of the four offline map options are Google Maps, but it is no surprise that none of them is useful to click on. Finally, Baidu Maps was the only choice.

First, turn the pedal or wheel to activate the fin body. After activation, the "line" word will flash, and then you can pair with the app. When detecting fins, the app will display the signal strength in real time. The "- 68" on the left of the figure above is the data measured when the mobile phone is placed on the handlebar, and the "- 31" on the right is the data measured when the mobile phone is attached to the fin body.

After the connection is successful, the current status of the fin and various parameters of its location will be displayed, including the fin's electricity, pedal frequency and speed, as well as air pressure, altitude and temperature. I have to say that intelligent hardware is good. When setting the wheel diameter, I can choose it directly. When I set the wheel diameter of the traditional code meter before, it was really troublesome because there were no direct parameters on the attached table and I had to calculate it manually.

Usually I use the traditional stopwatch and Blackbird Bike software. The traditional code meter is mainly used to look at the real-time speed and time. The real-time speed is still accurate, which is about 5% different from the data measured by gps; This time is very moving. As you can see, it is already 5 minutes slow after two months without adjusting the watch. The Blackbird Bike app can call the app and also has an offline map. It seems that it has a large number of users. There are often various local cycling activities. The cycling mileage can be converted into points, and gifts can also be exchanged. The most valuable thing is that although it calls GPS, it uses very little electricity. Now with fins, how does it behave.

After the mobile phone is connected to the fin through Bluetooth, as long as you move, it will display real-time motion data, mainly speed and tread frequency, which are clearly marked in different colors; Of course, it can run in the background. You will get this prompt every time you exit. After running in the background, the logo of the traveler will be displayed in the status bar, which is also exquisite.

The automatic pause function is necessary. It is inevitable to encounter traffic lights when riding. The separate calculation of the riding time and the total duration can more accurately record the movement. At the beginning of use, 4G was turned on for auxiliary positioning. After successful positioning, only gps was turned on after data disconnection. There was no other program in the background except QQ mailbox. The power consumption was about 4% after 30 minutes of use. From the background power consumption statistics, it is no surprise that the Traveler app is the program that consumes the most power. I feel that there is still room for optimization in power consumption. Compared with the Blackbird bike, it really consumes more power.

The second item on the navigation bar is the user information record and setting interface. It has been raining recently. Chengdu, which used to rain at night and clear in the daytime, has also become rainy all day and night. It is hard to go out for a walk. The history record displays the total mileage by month. Click in to see the specific journey recorded each time. The track interface displays the track of riding, including the distance, time, average speed, and other common functions such as sharing and number of turns.

The chart mode display is very clear. Altitude, speed and tread frequency are all shown in spectrum chart and different colors. Especially this spectrum chart looks very impressive. However, the distribution proportion of the tread frequency does not know what its basis is, nor how many tread frequencies are appropriate.

The data interface is really pure data. Personally, the chart mode is the most readable.

The function of guidebook is very practical. It can not only be produced by yourself, but also be imported into other users' guidebooks. With the number of routes, you can avoid many detours and make up for the lack of timely map update.

In addition to the most commonly used basic functions above, there are two options in the main interface navigation bar, namely "Discovery" and "Club". The discovery function is social; There is no need to say more about the club. It may be that the Traveler software has a high threshold of use and needs additional hardware support to play a better role. There are relatively few clubs. When I open the club, I think it is better to directly recommend a few. Don't give people the feeling of being useless.

Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to their health. As a tool for outdoor sports, bicycles have come back to people's vision. Whether it's a healthy lifestyle or a green way of travel, it's a pleasure to take a trip to the countryside with friends on weekends. As a cycling enthusiast, I think the market of cycling equipment is developing upwards.

In fact, before I got the fin, I always thought that the fin's operation mode should be the same as the millet bracelet: I was recording my riding movement every minute, and connected to my mobile phone only to synchronize data and display real-time data. However, after use, we found that fin has no real-time display device of its own compared with the traditional code meter, and it still depends on mobile phones; The recording of driving distance and path also depends on the mobile app. As far as the recording accuracy is concerned, as long as the GPS is adjusted, the accuracy is not a problem. Therefore, compared with the simple riding software, the fin is also an additional step frequency record. Speaking of treading frequency, there is treading frequency training in the software, but after every ride, the fin did not tell me whether my treading frequency was appropriate and how to tread more reasonably in the future. In fact, for variable speed bicycles, the pedal frequency is the second. In normal training or long-distance riding, a stable riding speed is generally maintained through the stopwatch, and a suitable pedal frequency is adjusted through the transmission.

So, on the whole, the fins give me the feeling of chicken ribs. However, fin has its own inherent advantages as intelligent hardware. The fin I want should be the same as the millet bracelet. As soon as my car moves, I start to record my mileage. When I start the software to record with gps, by comparing the mileage recorded by fin with the mileage recorded by gps, and through a series of correction algorithms, the fin counts more accurately when gps is offline; According to the temperature detection of fins and the body data input by users, give reasonable riding suggestions in time.

Wisdom in the world has just begun.