Mine had a plastic white plastic piece at the front rail connection point held on with 3 small philips head screws. On removing the nose piece I could see that the rails were rubbing the nose piece leaving a brownish stain on both sides- as well as a “polishing” on the rails.

I carefully ground away the stained part with a bench grinder, leaving enough of the plastic for the screws to hold – but not enough to rub the rails.

In re-assembling, I think that the screws were also a bit “proud” when originally fitted, so I’ve tightened them as much as I could without stripping the thread.

Now when I flex the nose of the saddle it is quiet -as there is a tiny gap between nosepiece and screws and the rail. I also used some silicon spray at this point “just in case”.

If that doesn’t solve it, I’ll grind the screw heads down 1 mm for a touch more clearance and maybe cut a small nylon spacer to fit between the rails and the saddle towards the front.

It is disappointing to spend good money on a saddle only to have to fix faults which should have been fixed at the design stage!

Anyhow your blog and the comments put me on the right track!

I have a Garmin 305 wrist watch type thing and a 705 bike unit. My 705 might be kind of like your eTrex although more dated and I am using Ibycus, but I don’t think I’m familiar enough with the whole range of Garmin products to directly help you out. There’s bound to be someone on the interwebs that has done exactly what you are trying to do with yours (eTrex 30 + Ibycus). I hope you and Google are able to figure it out.

For what it’s worth, my approach to using my GPS devices is not really about wanting to know exactly where I am or where to go. It’s sort of an am I generally heading in the intended direction and also if the sh*t hits the fan I want to know I am backtracking along the route I came in on. Oh, I guess I also really like being able to see a map of my routes.

Good luck in your travels.

http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard?cid=944639

So thanks for the motivation. Time to get my 51-year old body up off the couch. My goal is to hike all between Thetis and Tod Inlet, then push out a bit this summer. Want to do West Coast Trail at some point, and am trying to talk my daughter into it.

Quick question. I’ve downloaded Ibycus (spelling?) Canadian topos, and they come out nice on the GPS and GarminBaseCamp, but when I send it to myGarmin, the full topo doesn’t show up – no contours and the other bits. Any advice on what I’m doing wrong?

Cheers,

Mike Knippel