My vision is fine beyond about 5 feet, but I need reading
glasses for anything closer. It's classic old fart
presbyopia, a little worse than average because I started
out farsighted. I use half-frame reading glasses, but I
don't want to wear them on my bike. I'd rather use normal
sunglasses, and I'd like to avoid having to buy expensive
bifocal sunglasses.
My current (10 year old) Cateye has a very small, somewhat
low contrast display, and it's getting to the point where
it's very tough to read through my fuzzy closeup vision. So
I'm looking for a replacement. I know it's always going to
be blurry with my eyesight being what it is these days, but
there has to be something that's a little easier to read
through the blur.
Which current brand and model has the biggest, clearest
numbers in the display? I saw someone mention the Planetbike
Protege series in another thread. It looks good in the web
site photos but I haven't seen it in person, and I can't
tell if the numbers are actually bigger, or they're just
using the display area to show more information. Maybe there
is something else that doesn't have a huge display area, but
has very large numbers? It's hard to tell from looking at
web site photos of all the different brands, and my LBS only
carries a few of them.
Also, display issues aside... what do y'all think about
alternative mounting locations to put the cyclometer in my
range of focus? I've thought about mounting it down on the
front fork, but that's probably a damage- prone location.
Another idea might be to put fenders on the bike (I've been
thinking about doing that anyway), and then sticking the
computer on top of the front fender.... assuming I could see
it past the handlebars. That would be a more protected
location, compared to the fork. Has anyone here tried
something like this?
Yet another goofy idea would be to get clip-on aero bars
(which I really don't need, and would look a little silly on
this bike), just to have a place to stick the computer out
where I could read it.
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Mike Barrs