Heart Rate Monitors

"Fraser Johnston" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate

monitors/cycle

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computers. Any cheap reliable places on the net to get them. I had a

bit

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of a search on the polar site yesterday and it looks like the S150 is

the

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go. Are they available in Australia. Probably going to get one in

the next

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month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this

morning

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for going the wrong way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100

fine.

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Thanks orificer.

I bought my S720 from Cecil Walker cycles in Melbourne CBD for $550. Guess it's out of your price
range, but I'm sure they would have the model you mention - as would other bike/fitness shops.

hippy

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:08:01 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" <[email hidden]>

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Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate monitors/cycle computers. Any cheap
reliable places on the net to get them. I had a bit of a search on the polar site yesterday and it
looks like the S150 is the go. Are they available in Australia. Probably going to get one in the
next month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this morning for going the wrong
way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100 fine. Thanks orificer.

Below is a repost from me:

The S520 is the cheapest model that has both hrm and speed/cadence. The store below does offer the
210, but not the 150 it appears. Others have had good experiences with this site as well. Take
advantage of the strong aussie dollar.

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I took a risk and ordered a Polar 520 + Cadence sensor online.

Well it arrived today and is working fine.

If anyone wants to take advantage of a great Aussie Dollar, I ordered from
heartratemonitor.bizhosting.comheartratemonitor.bizhosting.comOpen ↗

The web site looked a bit dodgy, but it is paying top dollar for google ads so that gave me some
confidence that they were legit.

The total including insured postage was $277.00 USD, which meant $395 came off my credit card -
$199USD for the 520, $39USD for sensor (dam it is $33 today !) and $39USD for postage to Australia.

So I had a good experience with these guys, hope someone else might equally feel like they get a
bargain from these guys.

davidp.
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David Pascoe, [email hidden], Western Australia

Fraser Johnston said:

Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate monitors/cycle computers. Any cheap
reliable places on the net to get them. I had a bit of a search on the polar site yesterday and it
looks like the S150 is the go. Are they available in Australia. Probably going to get one in the
next month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this morning for going the wrong
way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100 fine. Thanks orificer.

I bought a Polar S720 from watchmerun. It operates very nicely. I didn't bother with the cadence
sensor , but it came with the speed sensor. It cost me US$293, which at the time was A$448.
watchmerun.compolars710.htmlOpen ↗ US$288 + postage at the moment.

I was lucky too in that the cost was under A$500 so Australia Post didn't collect any GST. If it
had been couriered I would have been stung for the A$50 GST and A$50 entry fee since the total was
over A$250.

Cheers, Dave.

"Dave Ingram" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I bought a Polar S720 from watchmerun. It operates very nicely. I didn't bother with the cadence
sensor , but it came with the speed sensor. It cost me US$293, which at the time was A$448.
watchmerun.compolars710.htmlOpen ↗ US$288 + postage at the moment.

I was lucky too in that the cost was under A$500 so Australia Post didn't collect any GST. If it
had been couriered I would have been stung for the A$50 GST and A$50 entry fee since the total was
over A$250.

Cheers, Dave.

What sort of range does the sensor have? Ideally I'd like to wear the chest band while doing Ju-
Jitsu so I can take my pulse as well as cycling. Having something on your wrist is not really
practical. I guess 10 metres would be ideal.

Fraser

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Originally posted by Fraser Johnston
Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate monitors/cycle computers. Any cheap
reliable places on the net to get them. I had a bit of a search on the polar site yesterday and it
looks like the S150 is the go. Are they available in Australia. Probably going to get one in the
next month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this morning for going the wrong
way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100 fine. Thanks orificer.

Fraser

Sell these for around $350 (not 100% on price) at the bike shop i work at in Brighton, VIC, Australia.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:33:16 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" <[email hidden]>

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What sort of range does the sensor have? Ideally I'd like to wear the chest band while doing Ju-
Jitsu so I can take my pulse as well as cycling. Having something on your wrist is not really
practical. I guess 10 metres would be ideal.

no chance whatsoever. max is about 90cm, the closer the better.
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David Pascoe, [email hidden], Western Australia

I bought my S610 on eBay, and paid $150 under recommended retail...

Well worth checking it out...

Also, no point complaining about the fine, riding the wrong way up a one way... Most cyclists are
happy to follow the road rules, so why complain if you get fined for breaking them? The road rules
are for all road users, not just motorists...

"Fraser Johnston" <[email hidden]> wrote in message -"]news:[email hidden]-
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Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate

monitors/cycle

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computers. Any cheap reliable places on the net to get them. I had a bit of a search on the polar
site yesterday and it looks like the S150 is the go. Are they available in Australia. Probably
going to get one in the

next

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month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this

morning

Quoted message said:

for going the wrong way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100 fine. Thanks orificer.

Fraser

Fraser Johnston said:

Anyone here have any good suggestions on combined heart rate monitors/cycle computers. Any cheap
reliable places on the net to get them. I had a bit of a search on the polar site yesterday and it
looks like the S150 is the go. Are they available in Australia. Probably going to get one in the
next month or so. Would be earlier but got pulled over by the cops this morning for going the
wrong way up a one way street (on the footpath). $100 fine. Thanks orificer.

Fraser

I have used one of these for the last four years or so:

cateye.comdetail.phpOpen ↗

It doesn't have anything fancy like cadence, a lap timer, or audible max/min HR alert, but it does
the basics well. It cost me A$200 IIRC (I initially got one for $99 in a BMX shop but it fell off
during a race [my fault for not clipping it on properly] and I never found it again). I reckon you'd
be hard pressed to find anything cheaper.

HTH,

&roo

hippy said:

I bought my S720 from Cecil Walker cycles in Melbourne CBD for $550.

That seems an awful lot of dough, compared to separate speedo and HRM. What do you gain by combining
the two? Do you download the data to a PC for pretty HR/speed graphs?

"Mike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I bought my S720 from Cecil Walker cycles in Melbourne CBD for $550.

That seems an awful lot of dough, compared to separate speedo and HRM. What do you gain by
combining the two? Do you download the data to a PC for pretty HR/speed graphs?

Yep, that's the major reason I bought the 710 - the ability to download the HR info to a pc using
the IR adaptor (another $100!).

hippy