From: "Charlie Allen" <[email hidden]>
Subject: Re: Cycle computer recommendations (yet again)
Date: 05 September 2005 18:43
Simon Brooke said:in message
<[email hidden]>,D.M. Procida (') said:Sorry, I know it's a perennial subject.
Having started my new job today - after nearly ten years I am no longer
Apple Juice, I am now a trainee school teacher - I've found a place to
park the bike and have a shower when I get in in the mornings.A slight disrecommendation for the Campagnolo ErgoBrain. It's a great
unit when it works, having a backlight function is great for audax, the
automatic gearing indicator is neat, and being able to switch modes
without taking your hands off the hoods is really, really useful.But...
Sample of one, and all that...
My first battery lasted four months, which is fine. My second lasted a
week, which is not so good. My third lasted three days. So in June I
returned my then less than six month old unit to my LBS as a warranty
claim, and, errm, that's the last I've seen of it. Something is supposed
to be Being Done, but the summer is gone and I've been without for
pretty much the whole of it. And I do think that, when you buy something
that is so significantly more expensive than its competitors, not only
should the unit be bloody good but the service should be bloody good
too.I /think/ the beastie didn't like a very wet audax. But I also think that
a £100 cycle computer ought to be reasonably weatherproof.
Make that a sample of 2 (or 3 if you count the replacement under
warranty). My ErgoBrain refused to tell me what gear I was in; maybe not
a big deal but when you pay that sort of money you expect it to work. I
returned it to LBS who agreed & got a replacement which they fitted but
found to be worse. So, they have recommended that I give up on it and
try another type. The trouble is, I find the functions on it really
useful and rare in other models. Ideally I want a backlight (commute
home in the dark for several months of the year), cadence and remote
operation so am now looking at the Cateye CC-CD300DW. Does anybody have
a good or bad word to say about it?
Hmm.. I've had mine for 3 years; used it in the rain and it has always
worked perfectly. This is the 9 speed model, perhaps the 10 speed one is not
so good?
Julia