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