I’d like something w’less, easy to install, speed, altimeter functions and hopefully cadence for not too much $.
Thoughts?
TomD- what you do rec and sell?
Thanks!
Not the Vetta V100, unless you like replacing them every 6 months. I went back to wired with a Ciclosport 436M…which sucks to be wired but it works great.
Heh well you can’t beat the powertap computer for features, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.
I may not be of much assistance to you here. I am a fan of “less is more” when it comes to a cyclocomputer.
For years I used the Cateye Velo 3, now called the Velo 5 (two additional features). It is their least expensive cyclocomputer: Speed, Average speed, Trip distance, Odometer, Stop watch. Hard wire, long battery life and cheap.
I do use a Polar 625 heart rate monitor with the speed function enabled. I download the data to my PC every day. That is a useful training tool. I use 20% of the functions.
After my time using the Cateye Velo 3 qand 5 then I got a Cateye Wireless 7. It is the only wireless computer I have had success with. I’m using that now.
It is basically flat here so the altitude functionality is kind of lost on me.
I have used the most basic cat eyes for four years with no problems. I like Tom D’s Less is More statement.
Last year I got a fancy Cat Eye with cadence and all the shenanigans. Not only my frame had zip ties and wires everywhere, but the wireless speed sensor sometimes has interferences.
On my new S-Works I have a Specialized Elite computer. I think it is superb. Big digits, easy to operate – I only used three times, but so far I am impressed.
Specialized computers are great. Easy to use, decent prices, reliable wireless data, durable and good displays. For some reason, I decided I needed wireless cadence so I just switched to a Cateye double wireless. It works, but the display is ridiculously hard to read and I still don’t really know how to use it. I don’t remember ever having to read the Specialized manual.
The new VDO computers look good, too.
My Cat Eye has funny things like you have to hold two buttons together when in a particular mode, and yes it is difficult to read when you go fast.
The Specialized is simple, accessible, and easy to navigate. Big buttons that I can operate even with gloves. They seem to invest more in R&D related to Ergonomics. There is no point having fancy functions if you can’t use them whilst riding or if you need to study a manual.
My Polar 520 is so cumbersome I decided to never connect its cycling features to my bike.
Now you can say perhaps I am a bit slow. But as the CTO of an I.T. company, I think I should be able to work it out. It is not that I can’t, it is that I want these things to be effortless.
Very happy with my Cateye Double Wireless. No problems at all since installation, other than the offset bracket which make it a bit difficult to centre on aero bars.
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